Left Raleigh about 9 o'clock yesterday morning. The road from Raleigh to Weldon is the most crooked and through the most broken country ...

Nicholasville, Ky. We are again enjoying the quiet of camp life. Our miniature tents are pitched in regular order, streets are policed and b...

Crab Orchard, Ky. We arrived at 10 a. m., making ten miles from Lancaster this morning. Crab Orchard is a lovely town of about one thousand ...

Received four months' pay, which was of the greatest service to the officers and men and put all in a good humor. Sutlers shops were pat...

Yesterday evening there were heavy clouds and a good deal of lightning in the North; after supper laid down on the deck and slept very comfo...

Left Montgomery in a crowded train of cars; when we reached the coal station found a suspicious personage, of whom the guard took charge; he...

Under the excellent lead of H. E. Sargent, Esq., of the Michigan Central Railroad, a very pleasant excursion party visited Hyde Park from th...

The first day of the month that it has not rained. The man shot last night is carried out dead this morning. By trading some, we are enabled...

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...

Another clear and bright morning. It was a quiet night, with its million of stars. And yet how few could sleep, in anticipation of the entra...

Orders came in the afternoon to get ready to march the coming day. New knapsacks were issued, and rations kept ready for three days. Great t...

EMPIRE HOSPITAL, ATLANTA, GA., Oct. 4th. SINCE the 20th of August, I have had little opportunity, and less inclination, to write in my dia...

I rested well last night but had the most hideous dreams all night; Mrs. Brownnigg came in early this morning and asked me into her room; I ...

I was asleep the greater part of last night, but cannot call it rest. Oh! those hideous dreams which haunted me. I went to a market on Bridg...

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...