October 20. I never knew till today that "John Brown," the only son of Uncle York, was the first negro soldier who fell in this ...

October 21. Yesterday some contrabands from the "main" reported that they overheard a rebel Colonel say that the Chaplain they h...

October 25. Below I copy verbatim a document that came from one of our best blacks, a man so earnest and brave that he can be depended upo...

CAMP SHAW, BEAUFORT, S. C., October 29, 1863. It is a pretty severe official joke that General [Quincy A.] Gilmore is just now playing off...

November 1. I overheard a rough compliment for our guard this morning. A couple of white soldiers were taking a lot of Government horses a...

November 3. The guns at Charleston have kept up a great booming all through the day; more constant and frequent than since those memorable...

BEAUFORT, S. C. November 24. Today our companies E and K have proved themselves worthy, in a skirmish over the river, of all the praises t...

November 28. My decision to resign my commission was a little depressing, and may have had some influence in bringing on the attack of ver...

December 2, 1863. Today is the anniversary of the date of my commission of surgeon, and today I have tendered its resignation on surgeon...

April 16. Up to three days ago, good old John Quincy was getting on nicely, but lockjaw came upon him and today he was buried. He never mu...

April 17. Last night our Colonel forgot the importance of his present position and visited the wreck of the George Washington. He saw how ...

April 19. Yesterday the rebels at the Ferry made arrangements for Col. Higginson to meet General [W. S.] Walker this morning under a flag ...

April 21. I have today conversed with the extraordinary colored man, Peter Burns, who brought off one hundred and thirty-two persons with ...

April 25. This style of warfare which leads one in charming ways while serving the soldiers is for the moment more attractive even than sh...

April 27. Two or three months ago I wrote you of a fearful monomania among our line officers, called "Muster and Pay Rolls." The...

April 30. Tomorrow I am to be blessed by taking into my employment, York Brown. The old man has been nurse in the hospital during the last...

May 5. As I was riding out to see Capt. James' men at Rose's this morning I was drawn aside by an immense chattering of birds down...

May 10. Capt. Rogers performed a deed on the 8th ins't for which he will always rejoice. The causeway at the Ferry extends out into th...

May 15. We get reports from rebel sources that Hooker has got into Richmond, that Stonewall Jackson was killed and Lee taken prisoner. Wer...

May 22. After all it seems the doubters are justified; Hooker is on the wrong side of the Rappahannock. But you will be glad to know that ...