Intelligence has reached London this morning from New York dated 14th, by which it appears that Fort Sumter had been attacked by the Secessi...

On the 24th of May we cross the long bridge spanning the Potomac and enter Washington City and pass up Pennsylvania Avenue, and by the White...

As a description of the appearance of the country in which we were settled, I here introduce a letter written at this date to a friend: CA...

The following extract from a letter which I have just written to a friend, is the sum and substance of my thoughts, journalized for to-day. ...

Had some skirmishing to-day. Took some prisoners, who state that within twelve miles of us is the center of operations of about one hundred ...

Left camp at Upton Hill at eight A.M., and marched through Washington. Went into camp at five P.M. Distance, fifteen miles. SOURCE: John L...

I am still at Barnum's, and having transferred my sick to the charge of Mr. S., I have a little more time to think, and to journalize my...

On my arrival here, I found our tents pitched on ploughed ground, in a swale. The bottoms of the tents were very damp, and the mud in the st...

It is now between two and three months since our regiment went into camp. We have had nearly three hundred cases of measles, with about as m...

RICHMOND, April 17, 1 1861. Well, my dearest one, Virginia has severed her connection with the Northern hive of abolitionists, and takes...

"I am monarch of all I survey." Last night, intelligence being received that an attack was expected on Washington; we were ordered...

Arrival at the National Capital. By daylight the cupola of the Capitol greeted our eyes, a reviving sight after three sleepless nights. Col....

Grand review of the Rhode Island troops by President Lincoln and Gen. Scott. Marched in front of the White House and through the principal s...

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSOURI,           ST. LOUIS, Feb. 14, 1868. Dear Brother: *          *          *          *       ...

[TELEGRAM.] DATED, ST. LOUIS, Feb. 14, 1868.           RECEIVED AT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Feb. 14th. To HON. JOHN SHERMAN: Oppose confir...

I have repeatedly observed on the utter impossibility of keeping a diary without long chasms. More than a month has gone by, and an eventful...

We camped one mile from town. We left here on the 25th day of March, and returned May 2. Went through a campaign of twenty-seven days. In th...

HEADQUARTERS FIRST INFANTRY DIVISION,                     DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA,           CAMP HASTINGS, NEAR CUMBERLAND, March 4, 18...

Clear and warm. The local troops did not march until this morning, and no one supposes Richmond is seriously menaced by Grant. I believe t...

Clear and warm-the earth refreshed. Gen. Johnston telegraphs to Gen. Bragg to have the United States prisoners at Andersonville “distributed...