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SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, 6 April, 1859. GENTLEMEN:— Your kind note inviting me to attend a festival in Boston, on the 28th instant, in honor...

After breakfast read the Marshall Republican; found a very good speech from Horatio Seymour, Democratic candidate for governor of New York. ...

Was told by S. N. Brogdon, on the stage, that my old college classmate, Loudon Butler, was Captain of Company B, Nineteenth Louisiana regime...

Traveled all night Saturday night, having left Minden at dark, and all day Sunday; reached Vianna about 10 o'clock Sunday morning; the r...

Yesterday evening there were heavy clouds and a good deal of lightning in the North; after supper laid down on the deck and slept very comfo...

On the cars between Meridian and Selma tried to get transportation at Jackson to Augusta, but the quartermaster declined to give it to me; t...

Reached Montgomery this afternoon about 5:30, just too late for the cars, hence must be detained another night on the road. I walked up town...

Left Montgomery in a crowded train of cars; when we reached the coal station found a suspicious personage, of whom the guard took charge; he...

We packed up twice to change our camp today, but the order was countermanded each time. The arsenal is a very extensive building and the reb...

Toward night we received marching orders and started for Abbyville at dark. We heard that there was great excitement at Jackson, as an attac...

We arrived at the Tallahatchie Bottoms about noon. Bissell's engineer regiment is encamped here. It has just finished the railroad bridg...

Jesse Walker and I went out foraging and succeeded in capturing a shoat. The nigs were left very destitute and there will be a great deal of...

The news came in this morning that Holly Springs was entered at daylight and captured. The Rebels took over two hundred thousand dollars and...

The long roll was beaten at 3 o'clock this morning. The company was formed and we marched down to our cotton fort where we lay until day...

On guard in Frank's place, he has gone foraging ten miles below. More troops passed on their way back. SOURCE: Seth James Wells,  The ...

Gen. Grant passed through here this morning on the train. The division of Denver's, (ex-governor of Kansas, for whom Denver City was nam...

On picket guard today. Got my boots half soled. Gen. McPherson passed through here, and Logan's division is coming up and passing throug...

Christmas. I came off guard duty this morning. We drew half rations for four days and part of that was cornmeal. Our coffee is rye and in sm...

Warm and raining. We were astir early, cooked our breakfasts, filled our haversacks with meat and what little bread we had, and fell in abou...

Warm and rainy this morning. We struck out tents, fell in about daylight and marched through to Holly Springs, where we saw the effects of t...

We lay here all day, all is quiet. SOURCE: Seth James Wells,  The Siege of Vicksburg: From the Diary of Seth J. Wells, Including Weeks of ...

A foraging party went out this morning. One of our boys killed five hogs and thirteen chickens, and found two government wagons and two barr...

Rained a good deal last night. We were up early. Our regiment was rear guard to the wagon train today. It cleared off early and was quite co...

Last night was very cold. It snowed quite hard. The regiment formed this morning and guns were fired off. We were formed for muster at 2 o...

Corinth, Miss. As it is seen from the last date, I have not written any for some time and I must write of the past from memory. Not getting ...

Corinth. The doctor came to take our names to be sent to a Northern hospital as they had no room for us [in the general hospital]. I asked p...

Corinth. The Battery returned from its chase after the retreating rebs, of a week in length. In the evening the Captain and Sergeant Simpson...

Corinth. To-day it was a little warmer, the rain of the last two days having cleared. My anxiety to visit the Battery was such that I was in...

Corinth. The troops on the outskirts of the town were all moved in, among which were the 6th Battery. They passed our encampment at about 8 ...

Corinth. Having learned the locality of our Battery, it being encamped on the south side of the town, the wounded men were removed to the ge...

Corinth. I joined my Platoon, went into tent with E. W. Evans and T. J. Hungerford as before. Owing to my weakness I was not put on full dut...

Corinth. Resolutions relative to those who fell in battle on the 4th inst. were offered by H. S. Keene and unanimously adopted by the camp o...

Corinth. Roll call in the evening. ——— made an explanation as to his whereabouts on the day of battle, and the orderly read a certificate fr...

Corinth. To-day we were told the sad news of the death of one of our number, John Haskins, who died during the night of chronic diarrhea. We...

Corinth. To-day we had to police the entire camp ground as it was reported that General Rosecrans was going to inspect camp. The ground was ...

Corinth. Finished policing around the guns. In the afternoon after the Company was formed for drill, as Orderly Hayward was returning after ...

Corinth. While on drill in the afternoon, I, in attempting to mount, lost my balance and fell, the hind wheel of the caisson running over my...

Corinth. The weather turned very windy and cold, water freezing in the night ¼ inch in thickness. SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd Jones,  An Artiller...

Corinth. My foot was a little easier. Dr. Arnold of the 12th Wisconsin Battery dressing it and keeping it cool by water. The weather still c...

Corinth. We were moved from the tent this morning to an old deserted house a quarter of a mile from camp. In the afternoon it snowed and by ...

Corinth, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc. The troops were engaged in fortifying. All the buildings on the outskirts were torn down r...

Ottawa, Illinois, August 21, 1858 Freeport, Illinois, August 27, 1858 Jonesboro, Illinois, September 15, 1858 Charleston, Illinois, Septembe...

John T. Stuart (1837–1841) Firm: Stuart & Lincoln Stephen T. Logan (1841–1844) Firm: Logan & Lincoln William H. Herndon (1844–1861) ...

Our camp here was made without consulting the Surgeons. It was laid out without order, and the tents are so close together that teams cannot...

Went to Washington to see off a friend who has been spending a few weeks with me, as mess-mate. I felt sadly at the parting, and being lonel...

A little skirmish to-day, amounting to almost nothing. A party of four or five hundred went out in the morning, came upon the enemy's pi...

We have moved our camp about one hundred rods, are out of the mud, on high dry ground, where the tents can be ventilated and the streets kep...

A little occurrence of a very unpleasant nature, today. I have, for a long time, felt that my Colonel was interfering with the Medical Depar...

NEW YORK, March 1, 1851. I had a call this morning from a man who wishes to get a grant from Government, and so he is civil to me. It gave...

WASHINGTON, April, 1851. MY DEAR SUMNER, —  Laus  Deo! Good, better, best, better yet! By the necessity of the case, you are now to be a pol...

WEST NEWTON, Monday, June 16, 1851. I am very glad to be made acquainted with the existence of your society, and feel highly honored by yo...