A letter from home! A letter from home! It reached me by hand through the department—is most reassuring and at the same time most delightful...

Did not march today. Got permission to go on to Sherman's army which was marching on our right flank to get in Price's rear, and com...

Left camp at 6 o'clock. Roads in a terrible condition, mud knee deep, marching almost impossible; artillery stuck in the road, wagons in...

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH Co.,           Dated, WASHINGTON, D.C., July 2, 1881.      Received at MANSFIELD, OHIO, 8.45 A.M.                   ...

THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH Co.,           Dated, WASHINGTON, D.C., July 2, 1881.      Received at MANSFIELD, OHIO, 3 P.M.                  ...

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO.,           WASHINGTON, D.C., July 3, 1881.      Received at MANSFIELD, OHIO, 4.15 P.M.                     To Ho...

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH Co.,           Dated, WASHINGTON, D.C., July 4, 1881. Received at MANSFIELD, OHIO, 1.40. To Honorable John Sherman: ...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES,           WASHINGTON, D. C., July 13, 1881. Dear Brother: Nobody now sees the President except the...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES,           Aug. 25, 1881. Dear Brother: The President's condition is now absolutely critical, a...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES,           WASHINGTON, Aug. 29, 1881. Dear Brother: The President is sensibly better to-day, and al...

Bright and beautiful, and pleasantly frosty. Gen. Sherman is advancing as usual in such dubiety as to distract Gen. Hardee, who knows not wh...

Clear, but rained last night. From the South we learn that Sherman is marching on Branchville, and that Beauregard is at Augusta. The gr...

Clear and cold. Our commissioners are back again! It is said Lincoln and Seward met them at Fortress Monroe, and they proceeded no further. ...

Bright and cold. It is estimated that the enemy lost 1500 men in the fight near Petersburg, and we 500. Sherman has got to the railroad near...

Cloudy and cold; froze hard last night. Yesterday a bill was introduced into both houses of Congress authorizing the enlistment of 200,000...

Bright, windy, cold, and disagreeable. There was nothing new at the department this morning. Nothing from below; nothing from South Caroli...

Finds us across the Ogeechee, finds us before Savannah, finds us twelve miles from the sea. A defiant foe is before us disputing our advance...

After the fall of Fort McAllister, we obtain some supplies, but for the seventy thousand hungry soldiers they soon run out. For the last wee...

Last night Savannah was evacuated—her power yielded. The grand army is tramping now. Soon Sherman's terrible battle-flag will be flying ...

We are ordered to Fort Brown, two miles from the city, where we go into a more permanent camp. During our first days at Savannah, the Sevent...