April 26, 1864. W. Irving Wood to Ezra Cornell from camp near Alexandria, Virginia: "We left Annapolis at 6 A.M. the 23rd inst. we passed through Washington at noon yesterday & was reviewed by Genl. Burnside & the President as we passed, and we made a good appearance but it was very hard work after marching for two days & the night before we laid out through a drenching ravine & had marched 10 miles through the mud besides fording a stream that morning. Quite a number of men died yesterday on the road. Our corps now has 4 divisions the forth is of colored troops." Topics: Western Union Telegraph Company: dividends; Russian Telegraph; New York State Agricultural Rooms; New York State Legislature: legislation; Civil War; national legislation; Cornell family genealogy and history; Ithaca Gun Company. Personal names: Sibley, Hiram; Wood, W. Irving; Chester, E.W.; Barnard, Reuben; Selkreg, J.H. Geography: DeRuyter; Ithaca, N.Y.