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pass through the city, and embark from the wharves; (How good they look, as they tramp down to the river

take a serpentine course—their arms flash in the sun—Hark to the musical clank; Behold the silvery river—in

; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry, lit by torches, hastening the embar- cation embarcation

I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed; Ah, river!

rear'dst him in on thy fresh & ample prairies, and on the breasts of thy great, fresh, musical flowing rivers

running Missouri, praise nothing, in art or aught else Till it has breathed of the atmosphere of this river

We primeval forests felling, We the rivers stemming, vexing we, and piercing deep the mines within; We

down the Potomac for several miles, & over into Virginia, along Arlington heights—The trees, grass, river

Springs, Virginia, was the site of continuing skirmishes during August of 1862 along the Rappahannock River

The exchange of prisoners of war now going on at points on James River and elsewhere is sending home

Virginia and Western Maryland—up and down, across and back again, amid heat, dust, rain, snow, wading rivers

In the door-yard, toward the river, are fresh graves mostly of officers, their names on pieces of barrel-staves

Through Fourteenth-street to the river, and then over the Long Bridge, and some three miles beyond, is

Thus they promenaded, by rapid marches, amid heat, dust, rain or snow, crossing mountains, fording rivers

He has had chills & fever, caught in the James River.

home for a week or fortnight for a change—the rumor is very strong here that Grant is over the James river

Corps—Another rumor, more likely, is that our base of the army is to be changed to Harrison's Landing on James river

I dont know what the battle is called but it was about 5 miles from Germania Ford on the Rapidan River

must have it in this morning that the Army of the Potomac has made a move, & has crossed the Rapidan river

that lies in the rear of the Army of the Potomac, (from Warrenton, Virginia, & so to Rappahannock river

Albany, from there to Buffalo, from there to Indianapolis, from there to Jeffersonville and crossed the River

New Orleans our Dutys are light barely enough for healthy exercise the camp right on the bank of the River

Culpeper again I wish you would come & see me our Camp is 4 miles up the railroad toward the rapidan river

Mother, you have no idea of the splendor and the comfort of these western river steam-boats.

We expect to get as far as Cairo to night on the Mississipi river.

help us and We can Wipe the Cavalry if mead Will lookout for the infantry the rebs is coming over the river

clutched him by the arm, & poured out the greatest singing you ever heard—it poured like a raging river

population is 1,500,000), almost every body well-drest, & appearing to have enough—then the splendid river

he will get elected for he is a good union man— i am in the hospittle on davids island up the east river

The city of the wide Potomac, the queenly river, lined with softest, greenest hills and uplands.

There is no place in the city, or for miles and miles off, or down or up the river, but what you see

Sometimes from the river, coming up through Seventh-street, you see a long, long string of them, slowly

But this city, even in the crude state it is to-day, with its buildings of to-day, with its ample river

the California, Idaho and Colorado regions (two-thirds of our territory lies west of the Mississippi River

changed our camp since I last wrote,  we are now about 8 miles from Nicholasville, near the Kentucky River

this weather the rich & splendid environs of Washington are an unfailing fountain to me—go down the river

, but I wondered why you did not write—What comfort you must take out there in the country, by the river—I

must be now back again in Kentucky, or that way, as I see a letter from Cairo, (up the Mississippi river

with them about each one, in every part of the United States, and many of the engagements on the rivers

August 6th and marched down to the Yazoo river, where we went on board the boat, and started down the

where the citazens citizens had prepared a nice meal for us,  after getting our grub we crossed the river

corps had returned to Vicksburgh, & some acc'ts say that part of the corps had started to come up the river

Johnson, if he had attempted to come to the relief of Pemberton,  We are between the Yazoo and Black rivers

, our advance came up to the enemys pickets, who were posted on the opposite side of the Big Black river

at Jackson,  this City you know is the Capitol of the state and is built on the bank of the Pearl river

the river again just below the city, makeing a line of about 3 miles in length.

, while someone crossed the river, and made an attack on the rear, which of course would have cutt off

go up to Georgetown, about two & a half miles up the Potomac, an old town—just opposite it in the river

warm, but has not cleared off yet—the trees look so well from where I am, & the Potomac—it is a noble river—I

home twice since i roat to you i cudent stay long for the rebels pickets was in site just acrous the river

millsprings our boys are all in good sirrets and egger to fight since rot to you wee went acrous the river

is very low i dont think that he will live but 3 or foar days wee think we will cros the Cumbrlen river

somewhere, and that the dispatches were from General Carter, and that the rebs had crossed the Cumberland River

we had such favorable news from there at first, and Hooker managed things so nicely in crossing the river

find out that we had not only not, taken Richmond, but that Hooker had been obliged to recross the river

One thing I think is plain, in crossing the river and getting in the rear of Lee's army in the manner

done that, And Lee as you say must have been badly hurt or he would never let Hooker come across the river

The scenery around Washington is really fine, the Potomac a lordly river, the hills, woods, &c all attractive

The Army commenced to move from here early on Tuesday morning last, going somewhere up the river, but

over here and eat us all up)  my oppinion is, that it was intended to throw a heavy force accross the river

or on the flank while we occupied their attention in front, with our Batteries on this side of the river

We have just come off Picket,  everything along the river and in the camp is just the same as when you

The rebels still hold the other side of the river and apear to be in considerable force, but they keep

Since our repulse from the Fredericksburg batteries and return this side of the river, the men take things

high house, corner of 15th and F. street—there is a splendid view, away down south, of the Potomac river

Whitman rushed to the front, searching the hospitals in Falmouth, Virginia, across the Rappahannock River

George—when he heard he was wounded, on the day of the battle, he left every thing, got across the river

Thursday morning last before daylight one of our Regts, commenced to throw a Pontoon Bridge across the River

when the Rebel sharpshooters opened on them from the houses along the bank of the River, and our Artillery

morning our side made an advance driving the Rebel Skirmishers back about a mile and a half from the river

as we got up the Rebs cracked away at us, last night all the troops fell back on this side of the river

line, for more than a mile, so that I had to keep my Eyes open,  we were posted along the bank of the river

was sent over in "a small Norsey-Barque of 25 tons," to begin a fort at the mouth of the Connecticut river

On the Potomac River Near the Villiage of Antietam Md Sunday Sept 21/62 Dear Mother I had just commenced

commanding position on a range of high hills on the opposite side of a stream called the Monochey River

morning of Sept 19th we found the enemy had left and we moved foreward about 3 miles to the Potomac River

under ground, a passage of Acheron-like solemnity and darkness, In Greek mythology Acheron is the river

were some of the peculiarities of domestic life in the Dutch settlement here on both sides of the river

to Culpepper  from there we went to Cedar Mountains  from there to Kellys Ford on the Rappahannock river