I have a hundred axmen in my charge, felling timber on the mountain, and constructing rough breastworks to protect our left flank. General...

Our camp yesterday was enlivened by the joyful news that we had orders to take the cars for some unknown destination, and it is generally be...

(I shall not, in this book, feel obliged to give the proceedings.and doings of every day. Whilst in camp, sometimes for whole weeks, one day...

Went into quarters in the navy yard at Memphis. Quarters very good. Men under shelter. The machine shop is used as barracks for the regiment...

Christmas. Our officers presented the company with a barrel of beer. SOURCE: Theodore Reichardt,  Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode...

No. 8. Report of Surg. George E. Cooper, U. S. Army, Medical Director, Department of the Cumberland. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMB...

A portion of our infantry, with the First and Third detachments of my company, left to-day for Harwood's Mill. An expedition is spoken...

Nothing of importance stirring—very hot and rather hard to get anything to eat unless one's pocket is well lined with Confederate money ...

We are getting right down to business now. Have company drill and will soon drill with the whole regiment together. To-day we practiced the ...

Knapsack drill to-day,—something new to me, though I am told it is to take place every Sunday morning when in camp. As we were not here yest...

On picket duty at Catonsville again. The people and the peaches are just as good as ever. We are glad enough of this outing, after our hard ...

I sit down to-night, journal on my knee, to write by the light of a tallow candle, stuck into the mouth of a whisky bottle, (whisky all out)...

NEW YORK CITY, and my first peep at it. We are in City Hall Park, but I must go back and tell of our getting here. We had an all night's...

Two men in the guard-house. We are improving. Baltimore whiskey got into the camp some way and these men found it. At dress parade to-night,...

WATERLOO. We got under way yesterday evening and came up to Waterloo, the scene of our first battle, where we again tied up, to allow the me...

After a lapse of several days, I again resume my diary. I was taken sick on the 1st inst., and have been unable to note the incidents as the...

I left the camp to-day, and have determined to make my headquarters at Barnum's Hotel, for a few days, till I recover some of the streng...

ON BOARD THE CONFEDERATE GUN BOAT DR. BEATTY,} February 19, 1863.} YESTERDAY the expedition for the "wiping out" of the Yankee G...

12 o'clock p. m.—We came up with the enemy at half-past ten, and, after a spirited engagement of forty minutes, she surrendered to us un...

The papers of this morning contain the reported speech of President Johnson yesterday. It is longer than the President should have delivered...