HEADQUARTERS-CORPS OF CADETS,             July 4 , 1864 . GENERAL: In obedience to General Orders, No. --, headquarters Virginia Mili...

Have had many experiences since yesterday morning. Our guard has been very kind, and we have done everything for them as if they were our o...

I had a calm, solemn, two-hours conversation yesterday, with an intelligent and seemingly Christian man, which has filled me with entire de...

We have just heard that Gen. Smith, Col. Williamson, and Col. Gilham with some of the Cadets have been taken prisoners! Where is my husband...

Last night all our alarm was again aroused by a courier arriving with the news that the enemy had turned suddenly back, and were in full fo...

Our fears have all been realized: the enemy is upon us, and is in pursuit of McCausland, who left the town about an hour before they entere...

No sooner is one alarm over than another comes. Mr. P. took me down to the hospital this morning, to see some wounded cadets, one of whom w...

My birthday. I feel the pressure of years upon me in this respect, that all life seems sadder; hope's wings droop; illusions vanish. Ye...

Surely we have fallen upon evil times! Last night we received intelligence of the very severe battle at or near New Market, between Brecken...

An order from Imboden for the cadets to march to Buchanan. They started this morning. Mr. P. went at noon. A very cold day. SOURCE: ...

Busy all forenoon getting breakfasts for soldiers, and filling haversacks. Two young cousins of Mr. P. (Moncures) who have lived most of t...

Again the Cadets and Home Guard are summoned out; they started yesterday; and Mr. P. went early this morning. It is a cold raw day, and the...

I feel angry when I have been tortured to no purpose, as now. This evening the Cadets and Home Guard are back again without anything happen...

Hear that there was fighting yesterday all day at Callihans, six miles west of Covington; that the Home Guard and cadets were being pushed ...

But little like the day of sacred rest. Last night, after dark, and just after I had heard that 14,000 of the enemy were advancing, and the...

A lovely day, and in contrast to the feelings of the whole population. Last night I became uneasy at Mr. P.'s not coming home from the ...

This evening Mr. P. left us for Columbia, S. C, whither he goes as a delegate to the General Assembly. [Presbyterian highest church court.]...

With what different feelings do I make a record in this little note book today, from last Saturday! Last night my husband, almost without a...

Have had various notes from Mr. P. since Saturday. Was extremely relieved to find that he was not in the fight; that there were only 50 kil...

A dreary dismal day of rain, and my feelings are in accordance with the weather. At midnight last night Mr. P. was summoned to the Institut...