Winchester, Virginia , Friday, May 30, 1862, Braddock Street, at Mr. Bernhardt's. The first news of an attack on Banks's colu...

bivouac Near New Market, Virginia , Raining from the East. Easter Sunday, April 20, 1862. Looking back, it seems an age since we dwel...

Camp Near Strasboro, Virginia , March 31, 1862. I was glad to hear, from your letter of the 23d, that you have been doing something, an...

Camp Four Miles Beyond Strasburg , March 28, 1862. I had just finished my letter yesterday, and started to mail it, when I was turned b...

winchester, Virginia , March 25, 1862. A blue March morning, and I have just returned from the battle-field. A sight to forget. I quest...

winchester, Virginia (again), March 24, Monday. I've only a minute in which to send you greeting. Again are we hurried by a forced...

camp Near Winchester , March 15, 1862. Of all the platitudes and jingles that ever amused and deluded a chivalrous people, the asserti...

I forgot to note in its place a feat of Gen. Stuart and his cavalry, before the recent battles. He made a complete girdle around the enemy,...

Camp Near Williamsport, Md., June 5, 1862. You see by my heading that we are still on the wrong side of the river, but we shall be so...

Strasburg , May 14, 1862. 1 never expected to write another letter from this place during the war, but so it is. After ten days' ma...

April 28, 1862. Yesterday, having just completed the usual Sunday inspection, we received an order in hot haste to get ready at once w...

Col. Ashby with 600 men routed a force of 1000 Yankees, the other day, near Harper's Ferry. That is the cavalry again! The spies here c...

Camp Near Edinburgh , April 7, 1862. As I write less often now, you must expect me to be more voluminous, and I shall stick to my form ...

Camp South Of Strasburg , March 28, 1862. You must be expecting, by this time, to hear some account of what we have been up to for thes...

Good news at last. Four letters were received last night by way of Ashland. We learn that we certainly whipped the Yankees on the 31st of ...

Sad news from the Valley. The brave, gallant, dashing General Ashby has fallen! He was killed yesterday, in a vigorous attack made by the e...

There has been some brilliant fighting by several brothers named Ashby, who led a mounted company near Romney. One of the brothers, Richard...

A rumour of a skirmish, in which the Messrs. Ashby were engaged, and that Richard Ashby was severely wounded. I trust it may not be true. ...

Camp Washington , July 7th, 1861. Dear Dora: I received your letter a few days ago, and take this evening to write you a few lines, u...