Rienzi. We were aroused this morning with the same story of march and ordered to cook three days' rations and be ready to march at 1 P. ...

Rienzi. Was begun by a heavy shower of rain at about 9 A. M. I joined the foraging party and we started on the Corinth road. We had scarcely...

Rienzi. We awoke in a wet bed, it having rained very hard the latter part of the night. We received orders to march for Jacinto at 3 A. M. b...

Rienzi. On roll call the Captain told us that Burnside had captured the whole of Longstreet's command at Harpers Ferry after their first...

Rienzi. There was nothing to break the monotony of camp life. Wrote two letters. Washed clothes. In the evening news of another battle at Iu...

Rienzi. Was another repetition of that a week ago only on a little larger scale. The horses were harnessed at 1 A. M. and we went out on the...

Rienzi. To-day I felt very weak, there was no local pain, but a general debility. SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd Jones,  An Artilleryman's Diary...

Rienzi. To-day I felt but a little better, got some milk and corn bread. With the secesh [women] had an encounter before I left. SOURCE: J...

Rienzi, Miss.   We went out in the morning to drill on the field but did not see much into the wild scampering way. I wrote to Sp[ring] Gr[e...

Rienzi.   Woke by the bugle at 3:30 A. M.; went out to roll call and drill. The weather fine. Washed shirt and stockings for first time. Wro...

Rienzi.     Acted as No. 6 on drill to-day. Made a galloping time of it. Did my first sweeping. Saw the first nigger dance; watered horses i...

Rienzi.   Went out as No. 6. Was a little unwell. Infantry preparing to move. Bad news from the Potomac. SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd Jones,  An A...

Rienzi.   Went through the usual routine of drill and camp life. Received my first mail since my arrival, consisting of two letters and a [M...

Rienzi.   Arose to the sound of the bugle at 3 A. M. Prepared for a general inspection, but Captain, apprehending a move, did not call us ou...

Rienzi.   To-day was spent in anxious waiting. I stood guard for the first time while we were momentarily expecting orders to leave; slept i...

Rienzi.   Another day dawned without any orders. Some of the boys pitched their tents. I went out foraging in the afternoon. SOURCE: Jenki...

Rienzi.   This was another day of idle waiting; most of the boys slept in tents last night, and it was supposed we would have to stay here. ...

Rienzi.   I answered the summons of the reveille, but I did not feel very well; had an attack of the ague but got over it by dinner. Nothing...

Rienzi.   Spent the morning as usual in suspense of leaving, but finally the orders came to send all the baggage train to Clear Creek, a dis...

Rienzi.   The 3rd Section, Lieutenant Hood, went out in front and the first fell back to its old grounds. Foraging party brought in two load...