This morning ere it is light, the drums are heard, which tell us that something is demanded of the Seventh—a march and a fight forsooth. Ord...

Company A, Captain McGuire, Company G, Lieutenant Sayles, are detached from the regiment to take charge of a battery. To-day rumor has it th...

[W]e receive dispatches informing us that Rosecrans is engaged in battle with Price at Iuka. We are expecting every minute to move. It is no...

It is reported to-day that Price has been beaten, and is now making a flank movement towards Corinth. Soon we are ordered to Corinth, and th...

MAJOR JOHN L. YOUNG , of Leon, is one of the oldest practicing lawyers of Decatur County, having settled here in the fall of 1859.  Judge S...

Jackson, Tenn., October 16th, 1862, Dear Sister: I received your letter by due course of mail and expected before this to have an...

I was on guard today. The Sixth Division received orders to march in the morning. 1   We are to go in light equipment, leaving here our kn...

We lay around all day in the camp which the rebels vacated. Their tents are badly torn, but the wooden bunks are in good condition. The wou...

We remained in line of battle all night and early this morning advanced in a line about two miles, when we received orders to march on into...

Each man was ordered to have sixty rounds of cartridges, and leaving our bivouac, we marched a short distance and formed a line of battle ...

La Grange, Tennessee, November 7, 1862. NOT having much of special note to write you since your visit to Jackson, and knowing that yo...

The ten companies composing the Seventeenth Iowa Infantry were ordered into, quarters at Keokuk, Iowa, between the dates January 25 and Marc...

The organization of the Sixteenth Regiment of Infantry began when the first company was ordered into quarters by Governor Kirkwood, Septembe...