January 19, 1863. W. Irving Wood to Ezra Cornell from Army hospital in Alexandria, Va. describing where he is and where he has traveled with the Union Army. January 26, 1863. D.B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell from Army camp in Louisiana, about 12 miles above Vicksburg describing life in the camp and discussing the family and farm he left in Illinois: "There has been a great deal of trouble about our getting our mails since we left Jackson Tenn, Nov, and in fact about the amount of what do get that we can depend upon is mouldy bread, musty bacon body lice and curses from drunken officers?" January 26, 1863. H.W. Sage to Ezra Cornell concerning Ezra Cornell's interest in Sage's Ithaca real estate: "If I lived at Ithaca & could find one man without fear of his own shadow, to join me, I would undertake to make all that valley properly valuable -- I know it can be done and I know that you comprehend the ways -- & have the means, to do it?" Topics: New York State Agricultural Society; telegraph business correspondence: Pacific line; sheep; cattle; Forest Park farm; agriculture; Civil War; salt; Family correspondence; Western Union Telegraph Company Personal names: Cornell, John H.; Mumford, G.H.; Curtiss, George; Cornell, Frank C.; Wood, W. Irving; Wade, J.H.; Elwood, I.R.; Wilcox, A.; Root, O.; Pew, W.P.; Cornell, F.C.; Cornell, D.B.; Sage, H.W.; Sibley, Hiram; Cornell, E.B.; Wood, O.S.; Wood, M.B. Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.; Albany, N.Y.; Albion; Vicksburg, MS