Orders this morning to draw two days' rations, pack up and be ready to move at a moment's warning. We drew hard-tack, coffee, bacon...

Passed through Waynesborough; small Union flags on some houses; women ask to let the band play some old tunes—Yankee Doodle, &c. The mu...

Great news this morning. A raid is being made on Richmond by Kilpatrick, Rebels manning their forts in sight of us. All are at work, women,...

bivouac Near New Market, Virginia , Raining from the East. Easter Sunday, April 20, 1862. Looking back, it seems an age since we dwel...

cantonment Hicks , Near Frederick, January 13, 1861. “Si le combat est pr é vu, la troupe se met en grande tenue; elle doit cette polit...

I heard such a good joke last night! If I had belonged to the female declaiming club, I fear me I would have resigned instantly through mer...

Camp Near Newtown, June 14, 1862. After about eighteen days' absence, here we are back again in Virginia, camped on the identical...

charlestown, Va ., July 18, 1861. From Bunker Hill to Charlestown may not seem a long way to a Massachusetts man, but in Virginia it is...

Tuesday. — Now this, they say, is positive: '”Fort Sumter is to be released and we are to have no war.” After all, far too good to be t...

Harper's Ferry, Va. , July 30, 1861. Our regiment is now left here alone, the whole army having moved across the Potomac together w...