The day has been cold and blustery. We have spent it in reading tracts the chaplain gave out, writing letters and swapping yarns. I am new t...

On shore again. The well ones are drilling and the sick are enjoying themselves any way they can. Mail came to-day and I have a long letter ...

Orderly Holmes and myself have been on shore again. We went up the beach and found a soldiers' graveyard. We got breakfast at a darky hu...

Have been paid off; $24.70 I got, and we all went ashore and washed up. The bunks on the Arago have been used so long by so many that they a...

A death on board last night. The guns are being taken off the Cumberland and Congress by divers. Lieutenant Colonel Smith let himself out to...

The sun rose clear this morning, and the air is just right. Our lower regions are hot and stuffy, but on deck it is delightful. Great birds,...

OFF FORTRESS MONROE. We left Newport News about six this morning, and came here where lie many other vessels loaded with soldiers. There...

All night the coal kept rattling down, and it would seem this old craft would sink. There are about 1300 men on board. SOURCE:  Lawrence V...

If I have kept track right, this is Thanksgiving day up north. My mouth waters as I think of the good things they will eat to-day. I suppose...

Rainy to-day. This keeps us below and such a racket as we make! I begun to wonder if I didn't make a mistake in leaving Stewart's Ma...

This is really Thanksgiving day. So by my mistaking Tuesday for it I really have two holidays. The men are ashore for a Thanksgiving sermon....

Lots of sick men to-day. I am better and was on duty again. Had only to attend sick-call and take the men to the doctor. There were only six...

Hurrah for camp once more! Our tents are being sent ashore and a detail from each company goes to put them up. This began just at night and ...

Camp Hamilton, right in sight of Fortress Monroe. The last day of fall and as perfect a day as ever was. We are on the ground again and it f...

Have sent home my diary and am beginning another. I must be more brief, for the great mass just sent off covers but little ground and will t...

Feel slim to-day, but am still able to do duty. There is so little to write about, as long as we make no change. I am going to wait for some...

Something has happened. Last night, just as we were settling down for the night, orders came for a move. Dr. Andrus came round looking us ov...

Snow going fast. A day more like May than November. Hear the regiment is on a vessel off shore waiting for something, I don't know what....

Four men died last night. A major from one of the regiments came to see some of his men here. He doesn't enthuse much over the condition...

Two more deaths last night. As I have nothing better to do I will describe what I saw of a military funeral. It was an artilleryman in a pla...