Camp Warren, Sept. 15th, 1861 It is now a little more than a week since I was with you, Although it is but a short time It seems to me abo...

Today obtained and sent the Photographs to Tho s  [Bourne?]. They were finished while I was in the Gallery. I sent them by Adams Express. I ...

Has not rained today. A Reg t  passed this morning with Band playing &c just as people were going to church. Co l  Dutton had his horse ...

Nothing new has transpired today that we know of. The Telegraph announces that a Battle is in progress on the Miss. Com Foote is Bombarding ...

Last night was a holiday time. We had dancing on the vessel, and "the band played." This morning was ushered in with a slight chan...

Drill, drill, all day, for a change. Our band has received the new pieces from Boston, and is now expected to shine. Among our many visitors...

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

Among the most welcome of those who have come among us, drawn by the present political Convention, we are gratified to see and recognize the...

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...