The Bellair Company came to town & will quarter here until we are all into Rendisvouse 6 Oc I got Marriage License for Samuel Bunker of ...

Mr Fee our Orderly drilled us today. Oliver Williams a Traveling preacher & Miss Ella Filkin was Married by C Morey SOURCE: Edgar R. H...

To-day we went on a general hunt in full force. We went into a house where we suspected there was a deserter. We hunted through all the out-...

ALEXANDRIA, March 30, 1860. . . . I wrote you from Louisville and Memphis. The boat was elegant and landed me at ten o'clock Wednesday...

LOUISIANA STATE SEMINARY, Alexandria, April 12, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: I have been pretty busy in obeying the orders of the Board of Supervis...

November weather; like snow, only it doesn't. Captain Blazer and his scouts make some captures; a deserter from Sixth Corps was married ...

Lucilla Field was married in our church to-day to Rev. S. W. Pratt. I always thought she was cut out for a minister's wife. Jennie Drape...

I have been up at Laura Chapin's from 10 o'clock in the morning until 10 at night, finishing Jennie Howell's bed quilt, as she i...

Our cousin, Ann Eliza Field, was married to-day to George B. Bates at her home on Gibson Street. We went and had an elegant time. Charlie Wh...

St. Helena's , May 13, 1862. Yesterday was a gloomy day on this island. I have been interrupted by a wedding. Tom and Lucy have jus...

Two miles south of the Gordon's Mills crossing of the Chickamauga, May 7, 1864, 12 m. We started at 8 this morning and made this ...

Headquarters Del. Dept. Wilmington, Del., July 28th, 1863. My dear Mother: That I have not written you more punctually, the enclos...

HAMILTON, Sept. 15th, 1856. To MR. STILL, Dear Sir :— I take this opportunity of addressing these few lines to you hoping to find you i...

Camp White , April 15, Evening. Dearest : — Your short business letter came this afternoon. I do not yet know about your coming here du...

Antietam Iron Works,            79th Regiment ,     Sept. 30th. 1862. My dear Mother: I send you herewith the copy sent me to-nig...

17th. To-day our rejoicing is somewhat subdued by the news of the surrender of our forces at Harper's Ferry. Burnside's corps is sa...

Headquarters Stevens's Div. Burnside's Expedition, Newport News, Va. July 20th, 1862. My dear Mother: I rode over yest...

Headquarters,  U. S. Forces En Route To F. Monroe , July 12th, 1862. My dear Mother: When I wrote you a few hurried, peevish line...

14th. Still on shipboard but near Fortress Monroe. Lilly's wedding day. Miles of friends — little children's voices — church be...

Headquarters 1st Division, Battery Island, June 25th, 1862. My dear Mother: I have received your kind letters with their urgent r...