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to Eunice Lombard Edwards

Major Edwards, commanding the 37th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, informs his mother that he has assumed the command of Camp Briggs, in Pittsfield. Remarks, "I have a splendid set of men- better never were seen- but all green... The most...

GLC02163.02

Daily dispatch. [Vol. 20, no. 82 (October 8, 1861)]

Movements of General Zollicoffer, Fremont to be Court-Martialed, Affairs in Kentucky - The Capture, Sentence of Death, and Escape of James H. Burnam, The Capture of General Butler's Flagship "Fanny."

GLC05959.56.081

Daily Richmond examiner. [Vol. 18, (January 23, 1865)]

Sherman's Movements against South Carolina, General Bragg is confident that he will be able to hold Wilmington, Local Citizens arrested and confined to Castle Thunder for attempting to go to the enemy., Letter by the 13th Virginia Regiment before...

GLC05959.72.123

to Mary Blackman

Writes to his mother. "...i thought that I had seen hard times but I never did until i was taken prisoner...we fought them 3 days with 6,000 men and they had 45,000 with 84 pices of artirly we kiled 900 of them but they out winded us." Talks of the...

GLC02159.09

to Marion Hutson

Written to his brother from camp near the Rapidan River in Virginia. Mentions that the Yankee cavalry, supported by infantry and artillery, tried to crop the river but they drove them back. The Yankee cavalry numbers worry the troops. Remarks that...

GLC08165.60