Go to the city to make some purchases while there hear that the Div is under orders to embark, hurry to camp find the Regt under said order...

There was tremenduous heavy firing last night from 11 to 1. the sky was lighted with the flash of small arms, could not determine whether i...

Was late in the morning before I arose as being fatigued by the trump over last night I felt like taking all the rest I could get. At 9. th...

Very little mail Belle Ve Dere starts A. M. at 2 P. M. our Regt on board the Izetta to cross to depot. drop 4 miles below, & return to ...

Cleared off at night. Any amount of huckster women in camp by day light. A. M. in New Orleans to muster, did not succeed. P. M. in N. O. fo...

Pleasant day. All day in quarters at night at the theatre. 6 cos of 27th Wis. leave this morning. SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, ...

Cool damp ugly day. busy all A. M. collecting unserviceable property, for the action of an inspector who inspected at our co at 2. P. M. un...

SECOND COLONEL, THIRTY-THIRD INFANTRY. Cyrus H. Mackey is twenty-eight years of age, and a native of Illinois. He is a lawyer by profession,...