A great day of sport to usher in the new year. Amongst other amusements in our army, Hancock's Brigade "got up a time on its own ho...

I think my hospital can boast, just now, the happiest set of sick men I ever saw. I have now twenty-seven of them. This morning, as I was pr...

I am very hard worked just now. The Brigade Surgeon is sick, and I being the ranking Surgeon in the Brigade, have his duties to perform. In ...

This has been a cold, blustry day, and the Regiment has been out skirmishing. They found no enemy; bought a little corn, and came home. Al...

There is a rumor here to-day that our troops are in possession of both Savannah and Pensacola. I do not believe it. What do our leaders me...

The story of yesterday's fight is all  bosh . There were no two hundred prisoners taken—no fifteen killed—no fight—not a rebel seen! Mun...

It is now six days since I resumed the charge of the hygiene of the camp. My first work was to have my tent struck and removed from the grou...

Have received to-day a box of delicacies from the good people of Middletown, Connecticut, for my hospital. It is a great comfort to us to fe...

Eight days ago to-day, the sick list was 144. Today it is 72! I begin to think that a Surgeon may be as indispensable to an army as a Colone...

I have just received a letter from a lady friend of mine aye, and of the soldiers, too, in which she says she "cannot but think of the ...

This is the anniversary of my advent to this noisy, scheming world of vanity and trouble. What wonderful changes have taken place on this co...

I am disappointed to-night, and feel sadly. I had almost no letters from home lately. None yesterday, to-day none. To-morrow I hope I shall ...

To-day I have received the expected letter; but it relieves no part of my sadness. My dear child at home is no better. I may never meet her ...

Did ever husband and father need the comforting aid of the help-meets of home as I need them this evening? See my table. Six  full  foolscap...

I have for some time had as mess-mates Surgeon J—— V—— and his two sons. I find him a most estimable Quaker gentleman, and he is by his cour...

On the third of September we stopped at Camp Advance, near Chain Bridge, on our way to Richmond. That was nearly ten weeks ago. We are now a...

Night before last was made hideous by the yells and drunken orgies of officers, who, in obedience to the order that no work should be done o...

This morning, as I passed through the camp giving directions about cleaning and ventilating tents, whilst the regiment was on parade, my Col...

The Regiment received two months' pay to-day, and to-night are all busy as bees making up express packages, to be sent to fathers, mothe...

This morning our Brigade Surgeon ordered me to leave the hospital for a few days, on account of my fatigue and prostration. He said that a r...