The days are so much alike I have given up noting the doings of each as it comes. Since February 1st our meeting-house tent has been repaire...

JUST at night, as I had finished the above, the Laurel Hill, the boat  that  brought us from quarantine to Chalmette, tied up in front of ca...

In the hospital after all. Dr. Andrus came last night to our tent and ordered me into the house I spoke of. I had a warm, dry bed and a good...

Captain Bostwick came to see me to-day. Two men died last night, one in the hospital and the other in his tent. I don't feel as well to-...

Think I am really better to-day. If I keep on I'll soon be out of this and with the boys again. But they all come in to see the sick as ...

I have been very sick. This is the first time I have felt able to make a mark with a pencil. I was taken in the night, after the day I thoug...

Am very weak yet. A little tires me out. A letter from Herman just a month old. Coon died last night, but we none of us knew it till we saw ...

Getting better fast, but can't write much yet. SOURCE:  Lawrence Van Alstyne,  Diary of an Enlisted Man , p. 89

Was carried back into the house to-day and put among the convalescents. I must be getting well, but it is slow. Most all the time I was wors...

Had a wash and a shave and am tired out. The regiment has marching orders. Wish I was out of this to go with them. SOURCE:  Lawrence Van A...

Gunboats are said to be going up the river every day. I wonder what's up. SOURCE:  Lawrence Van Alstyne,  Diary of an Enlisted Man , p...

Don't feel quite so smart as I did. This getting well is slow business. SOURCE:  Lawrence Van Alstyne,  Diary of an Enlisted Man , p. ...

The boys say they are ready to march, but don't get any further orders. Letters from home. Have written to father wish I could see him. ...

Not feeling so good these last few days. SOURCE:  Lawrence Van Alstyne,  Diary of an Enlisted Man , p. 90

Have my pants on and have made up my bed. If this keeps on I'll soon be able to hunt for something to eat. SOURCE:  Lawrence Van Alsty...

Ben Crowther is awful sick. He is a fine fellow and we hate to lose him. He is of better stuff than the average of us. I wish I could kill h...

Last night I got a little box from home. That I may never forget a single thing in it I'll put them right down now. On top was a New Yor...

Too much excitement yesterday and I feel like two weeks ago. The doctor says I will have these setbacks though and it is only a part of the ...

Poor Crowthers died very peacefully about noon to-day. His cot is next mine and he seemed like one of the family to me. The company has unde...

Orderly Holmes is very sick. His discharge is under his pillow (or knapsack). He lies in a room next to this and I can hear him talk, giving...