We are getting right down to business now. Have company drill and will soon drill with the whole regiment together. To-day we practiced the ...

Two letters to-day, and two papers, all from home. Seems as if I had been there for a visit. I wonder if my letters give them as much pleasu...

Mr. Parker came last night, and is to be our chaplain. He is the one who preached for us at Hudson Camp Ground, and the one we asked to have...

Reports are that a great battle has been fought at Antietam, and a great victory won. Do they tell us this to keep up our courage, or has th...

In spite of the fact that we are sumptuously fed, I have long longed for a good square meal off a clean table. This morning, early, I sneake...

Sunday morning. Nothing happened during the night. We bought a good breakfast of a family who make a business of feeding the soldiers that c...

Knapsack drill to-day,—something new to me, though I am told it is to take place every Sunday morning when in camp. As we were not here yest...

Another inspection to-day. This time our guns and accoutrements were inspected, and much fault was found because we had not kept our guns fr...

New tents were given us to-day. "A" tents they are called; I suppose because they are in the shape of a letter A. They are like th...

On picket duty at Catonsville again. The people and the peaches are just as good as ever. We are glad enough of this outing, after our hard ...

Camp Millington again. A sort of trial called a court-martial has been held and the boys who celebrated yesterday, are meditating upon it in...

We are looking for the Dutchess County regiment as if their coming was an assured fact, yet it is only a rumor, and even that cannot be trac...

Meeting to-day. Chaplain Parker preached. He asked those who would stop swearing to hold up their hands, and so far as I could see every han...

CAMP MILLINGTON, BALTIMORE. On account of the heat we were not taken out for drill to-day. We have cleaned up our quarters, for since gettin...

Battalion-drill to-day. It was just as hot as yesterday, and some say hotter. The lieutenant colonel, James Smith, came last night, and has ...

A rumor is afloat that we leave here soon. The 128th is about full, and no doubt we will go soon. But often a report is started by some one ...

We are all togged out with new blue clothes, haversacks and canteens. The haversack is a sack of black enamelled cloth with a flap to close ...

Heigho! I'm a corporal!—whatever that may be. The appointments were made to-day, and I just caught on to the bottom round of the ladder....

We go to-day, sure; that is, if reports are true. The Government bounty was paid to-day, and the oath of allegiance taken by the regimental ...

Still in Hudson. Was routed out twice last night, for no particular reason as far as I can discover, unless it was to make a miserable night...