HUDSON CAMP GROUNDS. I have enlisted! Joined the Army of Uncle Sam for three years, or the war, whichever may end first. Thirteen dollars pe...

SEMINARY, January  27 , 1861. . . . Since my last I have three letters from you. . . The mails have been much disordered by a break on the...

February 1, 1861. . . . It is war to surround Anderson with batteries, and it is shilly-shally for the South to cry “Hands off! No coercio...

Uncle Sam's cashier has arrived at last, and we have been paid for two months' service. The married men are quite anxious to send th...

Combined knife, fork and spoon, used by the boys at the siege of Vicksburg. We have heard that Port Hudson is ours, and I hope this may be t...

The siege is still progressing favorably. There is joy in our camp, for Uncle Sam has again opened a clothing store, which we shall patroni...

We move at last. We left camp as the sun rose, reaching our old quarters in front of the rebel Fort Hill in the afternoon. Glad we are to g...

Too many Slapjacks cause a soldier to dream of a feast at home. On the road to Vicksburg, resolved to capture the city or get badly w...

Six miles south of Marietta, October 5, 1864. Had an awful day's march yesterday, full 20 miles and the road very muddy and slipper...

We are having cold weather; freezing quite hard at night, and making our lodgings in these little rag houses anything but comfortable. I h...

We were annoyed some little through the night, by the rebels firing, but they didn't hit anybody. Two regiments of infantry with some c...

Hab[ersham] Co[unty, Ga.] , Feb. 25,1845. Dear Sir : I wrote you a few days ago that the Texas question, as decided now, would stand de...

May Day, — Not unworthy of the best effort of English fine weather before the change in the calendar robbed the poets of twelve days, but s...

Again on the march. I will be thankful if I can hold out until we get rations. Progress is very slow over these mountains. Roads are badly ...

Since the days of Cesar Augustus, when the edict went forth that all the world should be taxed, the subject of taxation has been one that h...

FULTON, Mo., Feb. 4. EDITOR OF GAZETTE. – Dear Sir: The portion of the 11th Iowa stationed here, are finally quartered in the deaf and dumb ...