We had a great time to-day, having sent out this morning some six thousand troops, with about one hundred wagons, on a foraging expedition. ...

(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...

As a description of the appearance of the country in which we were settled, I here introduce a letter written at this date to a friend: CA...

I cannot but feel depressed at what seems to be great imbecility in the management of our military affairs. By whose fault, I know not. Here...

The following extract from a letter which I have just written to a friend, is the sum and substance of my thoughts, journalized for to-day. ...

I introduce the following letter to a friend, as sufficiently explicit as to the occurrences since the last date: CHAIN BRIDGE, VA., Sept....

On the high land overlooking the Potomac, about six or seven miles above the Navy Yard at Washington, we have, since our arrival here, throw...

Our regiment has received two months pay to-day, and to-night all are boisterously happy. We had been notified to have our muster-rolls read...

Had some skirmishing to-day. Took some prisoners, who state that within twelve miles of us is the center of operations of about one hundred ...

Part of the truth relating to the story of yesterday's fight has come to light. The fact is, these "great fights," "great...

I am alone to-night, and tired enough to lie and sleep for twenty-four hours, did not the scenes around call up associations which banish re...

I am still at Barnum's, and having transferred my sick to the charge of Mr. S., I have a little more time to think, and to journalize my...

To-day came from Baltimore and joined my regiment at Meridian Hill, where I find the whole country a vast city of camps. SOURCE: Alfred L....

Reported to-day (according to requirements of army regulations) to the Medical Director for instructions. I was astonished and shocked to be...

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)...

I do not know but that I have the blues to-day. However that may be, it is sad to contemplate the selfishness of our officers. When I witnes...

I was visited by my Colonel to-day. He introduced the subject of reducing my hospital force. I was extra-polite, and replied that I had not ...

On my arrival here, I found our tents pitched on ploughed ground, in a swale. The bottoms of the tents were very damp, and the mud in the st...

It is now between two and three months since our regiment went into camp. We have had nearly three hundred cases of measles, with about as m...

On the 19th of June, 1861, the 5th Regiment of Wisconsin Vols., being partially organized, went into camp at Madison, Wis. Here it remained ...