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Near Petersburg, Va.
July 5th, 1864

My Dear wife:
This will inform you that we have again changed positions. Day before yesturday we left the north side of the James River and are now in position on the right of the lines around Petersburg,…

Camp Mangum, N.C.
June 4th, 1862

My Dear wife:
I seat myself this morning to drop you a few lines. I am well except a cold. I have had two or three sick brushes since I have been here; and I would have come home last week but I could not get a…

Rappahannock River, Va.
Wednesday, Oct 21st, 1863

My Dear wife. [Mrs. J.J. Hoyle, Knob Creek, N. C.]
I take the opportunity of dropping you a few more lines. Nothing of interest has occurred among us since I lat wrote you. We crossed the…

Near Orange C. H. Va
Monday, Feb. 22nd, 1864

My Dear wife:
I again have the pleasing opportunity of dropping you a few lines, informing you that I am as well as usual. I have nothing new to write you, except the weather is more pleasant…

Petersburg, Va.
Dec. 31st 62

Dear Sarah:
I have only time to write you a few lines; for it is now bed time, but I would rob myself of a little sleep any time, to write to my dear Sarah. I have received no letter from you since Carpenter came.…

Near Orange, Va.
January, 30th, 1864.

My Dear wife:
I have the pleasure of dropping you a few lines, informing you that I arrived at the company yesturday evening. I got all my boxes here safe, but lost my valice and every thing in it. But I…

June, 1863 — No. 10
My Dear wife:

I will now proceed to continue my regular series of letters, and as you see I will have to go back to the time we crossed the Potomac, as that is the time I left off.

Thursday, 25 — We waded the Potomac…

[Inclosure Numbers 2.] HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Hilton Head, S. C., January 21, 1865.

Confidential instructions to Bvt. Major General A. H. Terry, or the commanding officer of the United States forces at Wilmington, N. C.:…

After discharging our cargo of cotton and loading with supplies for the Confederate Government, chiefly for the army of Northern Virginia, we sailed for Wilmington in the latter part of the month of March. Our return voyage was uneventful, until we…

Circular.] HEADQUARTERS TWENTY-THIRD ARMY CORPS, Turner’s Bridge, April 12, 1865. Since we left Goldsboro there has been a constant succession of house burning in rear of this command. This has never beforebeen the case since the corps was…