Great liveliness in the rebel forts, bands playing and soldiers strengthening the fortifications. SOURCE: Theodore Reichardt,  Diary of Ba...

After turning in last night it was impossible to sleep, the cause being the music of a band farther down the railroad track. It was a serena...

Left camp at 6 o'clock. Roads in a terrible condition, mud knee deep, marching almost impossible; artillery stuck in the road, wagons in...

Camp Butler, Sagamon co Ills. Morning quite cool. Williams returned last night with 3 recruits. Co. now consists of 82 men rank and file. Ca...

Marched at 8 o'clock in the morning. General Grant passed us at about 10 o'clock; arrived at Holly Springs at about 11 o'clock; ...

Sunday morning the regiment was ordered out on grand guard. Went up on hill some two miles from camp—heavy firing heard in the distance—McAr...

Still in Hudson. Was routed out twice last night, for no particular reason as far as I can discover, unless it was to make a miserable night...

Capt. Waters Co. arrived this morning accompanied by a fine band of music from Macomb McDonough County Ills. Capt. Hitts Co. arrived this af...

Antietam, September 27th, 1862. We have had one week of rest; are encamped three miles from our last battlefields, with a prospect of stay...

Between Front Royal and Winchester, Va.           , June 21, 1863 . We are in the Valley of Virginia again and are now within ten miles of...

CAMP RUSSELL, December 17, 1864. MY DARLING: — No certainty about things yet. We fired fifty guns yesterday and one hundred more today ove...

CAMP RUSSELL, ARMY OF THE SHENANDOAH, VIRGINIA, November 30, 1864. MY DEAR SON: — I received a letter from your mother today in which she sa...

[ Continued from letter of November 30, 1864. ] December 2. — You would have enjoyed being here yesterday. It was a fine warm day and we m...

CAMP CEDAR CREEK, VIRGINIA, November 4, 1864. MY DEAR SON;— This is your birthday — eleven years old today — almost a man. In less than el...

CELEBRATING THE FOURTH OF JULY.  The Fourth was celebrated with salutes from the forts, batteries and gunboats, morning, noon and night. T...

COMPANY DRILLS.  The colonel, thinking that guard duty and dress parades are not quite exercise enough for us, has ordered company drills ...

WE LOSE OUR BANDS.  All the regimental bands have been mustered out and have gone home. Ours left the first of this month, and it seems qu...

  CAMP NEAR WOLFSVILLE, MARYLAND, August 2, 1864. MY DARLING:- We are having a jolly good time about sixteen miles north of Middletown, re...

Eight miles east of Summerville,  November 30, 1864.  Passed through the above named town this morning. All pine woods again to-day. Stopped...

Last night was a doleful night as the soldiers laid in this wilderness by the Tennessee. All night long there was a chilling rain, and the ...