Reached Buckhannon at 5 P. M., and encamped beside the Fourth Ohio, in a meadow, one mile from town. The country through which we marched is...

Bright and frosty. The "peace commissioners" remained Sunday night at Petersburg, and proceeded on their way yesterday morning. ...

SHERWOOD FOREST, August 27, 1860. DEAR ROBERT: I think it best to enclose you these letters. There are parts of mine you may not be able t...

SHERWOOD FOREST, Saturday, October 27, 1860. MY DEAR COLONEL: . . . . If elected, you will enter public life at a critical period. There i...

Bright and beautiful. All quiet below, save an occasional booming from the fleet. Nothing from Georgia in the papers, save the conjectures...

We returned to camps a little after dark at the same place we started from the morning before. It was a cold, rainy day. We learned that q...

COLUMBIA, KY., November 29 , 1861 .           (Received November 30, 1861.) General GEORGE H. THOMAS: I received a dispatch before day th...

Bright and cold. Gen. Lee is in the city, looking after recruits, details, etc. Mr. Secretary Seddon appears to be in very high spirits ...

HEADQUARTERS CAMP, ALCORN,           Hopkinsville, Ky., October 29, 1861. Col. W. W. MACKALL,           Assistant Adjutant-General, &c....

LANCASTER, OHIO, August 12, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: I left Alexandria in the stage on Tuesday morning, reached the wharf boat [at the mouth of...

Clear and dry; pleasant temperature. I learn that Petersburg has not been much injured by the enemy's batteries, and that Gen. Lee has...

Hot and dry. Twelve hundred Federal prisoners passed our door to-day, taken at Petersburg—about half the number captured there during the ...

Clear and warm, but the atmosphere is charged with the smoke and dust of contending armies. The sun shines but dimly. Custis was with us l...

Two miles north of Shady Grove, N. C., May 2, 1865. Twenty-six miles to-day, and everything in camp at sunset. That is No. I work with 300 s...

Five miles north of Laurenburg, N. C., Laurel Hill, March 8, 1865. One hundred and twelve miles of steady rain, and the best country since w...

HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA, October 1, 1864. DEAREST:— The First Brigade has gone out six miles to grind up the wheat in that neighborhood - t...

HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA, Sunday, October 2, 1864. DEAREST: — I am writing to you so often these days because I am thinking of you more anxi...

BALTIMORE,  August  20, 1817. DEAR SIR: Ever since I received your letter of July 11, requesting the communication of such ideas as had...