Bonfires in honor of the election of Mr. Chapin, for Mayor of Baltimore, was what so mystified us last night. The latest reports said there ...

There has been a little ferment in military circles, as newspaper correspondents write. Blair told me a few days since that Cutts came on hi...

HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE GULF, NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS, Before Port Hudson, La. , May 30, 1863. GENERAL: Leaving Simsport, on the Atchafala...

“We now opened fire for the first time during the day, in the direction of the regiment or brigade that had so frightfully thinned our rank...

It's cloudy with a gentle south breeze. We had company inspection at 9 o'clock this forenoon and monthly at 4 o'clock this afte...

Oh, such a horrid night's rest! Being near the mountains it was cold with a heavy dew, and I had nothing but a rubber poncho for cover,...

We left Frederick under the cover of darkness last night, and after marching a round-about way which took nearly all night, brought up at F...

At two in the morning, I was ordered to get the regiment under arms and into line. It was now Sunday morning, 15th. We expected we were goi...

Got the order at midnight to start at three A. M. It made a wild picture in the dark morning, the camp fires blazing high, surrounded by da...

Davin! Have had a talk concerning him to-day with two opposite extremes of people. Mrs. Chesnut, my mother-in-law, praises everybody, go...

Harrison's Landing , July 23, '62. I have no doubt I could get permission from the War Department to take a Massachusetts regim...