This morning our Brigade Surgeon ordered me to leave the hospital for a few days, on account of my fatigue and prostration. He said that a r...

BINGHAMTON, March 1, 1857. MY DEAR JUDGE—Your favor of the 27th came duly to hand, and, as the merchants say, "contents noted." ...

WILL McClellan display unity in conception, and vigor in execution? That is the question. He seems very energetic and active in organizing t...

A beautiful clear day but rather cool out, in the office as usual. Nothing new in the city that I hear of tonight. I have been down to Charl...

The weather is now fine & the roads are drying up. Troops are coming into the City and crossing over the River. Rumors afloat of fightin...

Arrived at Washington by eleven o'clock A. M., and unloaded the battery at  once.  Marched from the depot to the camp of the New England...

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: *          *          *          *       ...