The finest morning yet. The air is just right. The birds are singing, the sun shining bright and everything seems just right for getting wel...

Haines Bluff. Yesterday, as I was strolling through the ravines, picking berries, I came across a spring of delicious water, cold and pure. ...

Before daylight came where I now am. Saw alligators — small ones This out in the woods life is doing me good. Main road three miles away, b...

A rather cold rain wets all who have not shelter. Many ladies come to see us; don't come through the gate, but look at us through that ...

October 4, 1863. Have been over to Worthington's again to-day. Sam got out his hounds and started a deer for us. We stationed ourse...