Our part in this expedition is done, and we are on our way back to Knoxville. Wilcox's "baby brigade," as our boys call them, ...

Broke camp near Richmond and started for "Lee's Army of Northern Virginia." Camped for the night at Brook Church, about four m...

We remained in position all night, and a more uncomfortable night I never spent; 'twas almost a matter of impossibility to sleep, but na...

The Third and Sixth Ohio, with Loomis' battery, left camp at half-past three in the afternoon, and took the Huntersville turnpike for Bi...

The undersigned, members of the Legislature of the State of Virginia, in connection with a number of the citizens of the State, whose names ...

Raining. I was startled in bed by the sound of cannon from the new southside fort again. I suppose another hundred guns were fired; and I le...

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. ...

Awakened by the guard at 4 a. m.; at daylight go on the street receiving a small day's ration, the fourth issue since our capture. Rain ...

Yesterday we made short marches, halting at every good shade to rest. The heat was very oppressive. At Clinton a brigade was sent to meet th...

Appearances and talk on the streets last night indicated that they had news that worried them. This morning I learned from a sergeant, that ...

Clear and pleasant; subsequently thawing and foggy. Gen. R. E. Lee has been appointed General-in-Chief by the President, in response to the ...

Bright, windy, cold, and disagreeable. There was nothing new at the department this morning. Nothing from below; nothing from South Caroli...

Camp near Lovetsville, Va., Oct. 28th. We bade farewell to Pleasant Valley, and started for the land of "Dixie" quite unexpected...

Clear and cold. No further news from the iron-clad fleet that went down the river. Beef is selling at $8 per pound this morning; wood at...

Clear and pleasant—but little frost. Beef (what little there is in market) sells to-day at $6 per pound; meal, $80 per bushel; white beans, ...

Cloudy and cool. Cannon heard down the river. No war news. But blockade-running at Wilmington has ceased; and common calico, now at $25 pe...

The last day of the year. Snowing and wet. Gen. H. Cobb writes that the existing Conscription Bureau is a failure so far as Georgia, Alabama...

Camp near Orange Court House, Va . , January 3, 1864. The cars ran off the track below Gordonsville yesterday, consequently we have no mai...

Camp near Rappahannock River, Culpeper County, Va., October 20, 1863. This is the first chance I have had to write to you since we started o...

Bright and beautiful. All quiet below, save an occasional booming from the fleet. Nothing from Georgia in the papers, save the conjectures...