Dear Captain , — How are you? I'm prisoner of war. It seems to run in the family.* I hope you won't have it. I wish that you may fi...

General Weitzel and Dwight's brigade started again in pursuit of the enemy up the Rapides Bayou about thirty-five miles to where they h...

Lieutenant Dwight, the General's brother, was shot by a guerilla. He had been to the rear with dispatches and when returning, in passin...

General Dwight's brigade again on the march. SOURCE: Abstracted from George G. Smith,  Leaves from a Soldier's Diary , p. 49...

camp Near New Market, Virginia , May 9, 1862. After passing three days in bivouac on the other side of the gap, we returned here last n...

Whole division of twelve regiments, General Dwight commanding, started down Bayou Lafourche towards Burwick Bay. I remained in hospital. ...

in Bivouac Massanatan Pass, Opposite New Market, May 6, 1862. A word with you in the rough confusion of our mountain bivouac. Sun...

Camp Between New Market And Sparta , Thursday, April 24, 1862. When I awoke on Easter morning in my dripping bivouac, and looked gloo...

cantonment Hicks , January 5, 1862, near Frederick. DEAR Mother , — The New Year is fairly open, yet my pen has been silent. I would ha...

camp Hicks , December 25, 1861, Christmas Morning. Dear Mother , —   “A merry Christmas,” said I to myself, for want of a larger family...

muddy Branch Camp, Camp Near Seneca, November 1, 1861. You have your choice of dates, for I think our camp lies between the two, and ...

camp Near Seneca , October 28, 1861. I wish you could have looked in on our camp this morning. The stockings came last night. They wer...

pleasant Hill , October 21, 1861, 7 o'clock, p. m . Camp near Darnestown, for the last time! I have just time to write you a wor...

Willard's Hotel , October 21, 1861, Monday Morning. Your letter which spoke of William's bilious fever alarmed my fraternity ...

pleasant Hill , October 4, 1861, Camp near Darnestown. I am sitting up to-night, as field-officer of the day, awaiting the hour of tw...

washington, Willard's Hotel , October 2, 1861. The date will explain the episode in my history, which has relieved the monotony fo...

March 4. This morning orders came for a review in “heavy marching order,” by General Augur. I cautioned the men to “polish up,” and at ...

PLEASANT HILL, CAMP NEAR Darnestown , September 27, 1861. A dark, dull, rainy day without, a calm, quiet, cosey tent within. At peac...

Headquarters Forty-ninth Regiment, M. V. M. Camp Banks, Baton Rouge, La., March 4, 1863. Dear Mother , — I wrote you last on the 28t...

At breakfast this morning, I proposed to Katie to ride over to the Insane Asylum and see Genl. Hooker, to which she agreed; and she having ...