Reached camp yesterday at noon. My recruits arrived to-day. The enemy was here in my absence in strength and majesty, and repeated, with a...

This afternoon I rode by a mountain path to a log cabin in which a half dozen wounded Tennesseeans are lying. One poor fellow had his leg am...

Our Indiana friends are providing for the winter by laying in a stock of household furniture at very much less than its original cost, and w...

The Thirteenth Indiana, Sixth Ohio, and two pieces of artillery went up the valley at noon, to feel the enemy. It rained during the afternoo...

To-night almost the entire valley is inundated. Many tents are waist high in water, and where others stood this morning the water is ten fee...

The Thirteenth Indiana and Sixth Ohio returned. The reconnoissance was unsuccessful, the weather being unfavorable. SOURCE: John Beatty,  ...

The opinion seems to be growing that the rebels do not intend to attack us. They have put it off too long. A scouting party will start out...

Was awakened this morning at one o'clock, by a soldier in search of a surgeon. One of our pickets had been wounded. The post was on the ...

The name of our camp is properly Elk Water, not Elk Fork. The little stream which comes down to the river, from which the camp derives its n...

These mountain streams are unreliable. We had come to regard the one on which we are encamped as a quiet, orderly little river, that would b...

Francis Union was shot and killed by one of our own sentinels last night, the ball entering just under the nose. This resulted from the cowa...

With Wagner, Merrill, and Bowen, I rode up the mountain on our left this afternoon. We had one field-glass and two spy-glasses, and obtained...

Last night a sentinel on one of the picket posts halted a stump and demanded the countersign. No response being made, he fired. The entire F...

The Twenty-third Ohio, Colonel Scammon, will be here to-morrow. Stanley Matthews is the lieutenant-colonel of this regiment, and my old frie...

Five companies of the Twenty-third Ohio and five companies of the Ninth Ohio arrived to-day, and are encamped in a maple grove about a mile ...

It is said the pickets of the Fourteenth Indiana and the enemy's cavalry came in collision to-day, and that three of the latter were kil...

Jerrolaman went out this afternoon and picked nearly a peck of blackberries. Berries of various kinds are very abundant. The fox-grape is al...

We hear of the enemy daily, Colonel Kimball, on the mountain, and Colonel Wagner, up the valley, are both in hourly expectation of an attack...

At one o'clock P. M. General Reynolds sent for Two of Colonel Wagner's companies had been surrounded, and an attack on Wagner's ...

To-day we felt our way up the valley eight miles, but did not reach the rebels. To-night our pickets were sure they heard firing off in th...