Clear, with high wind. Nothing further from North Carolina. A dispatch from Gen. Lee states that he has directed Gen. Cobb to organize an ex...

We were up and at it at the usual time this morning, on the home tramp, which kept up the spirits of many. About ten o'clock we came in ...

Rained all day yesterday; cloudy and cool this morning. We have no news-only rumors that Wilmington has been abandoned, that A. P. Hill'...

Left our camp yesterday, and moved to our present stoping place, four miles southwest of Yazoo City. We are on half rations of corn bread an...

On Sunday evening left Big Black and moved to Church, occupying our old camping ground of May 20th, where we are resting and waiting orders....

I have allowed a huge gap to occur in this Diary, for which I can offer a poor excuse. I have been sick with head-ache for about three weeks...

NEAR CANTON.—We have marched five miles this morning, and are now in two miles of Canton. Our force is now ten or twelve thousand strong, an...

Most of us, when we turned in last night, thought by the time we went on deck this morning, we would be far from land. We were mistaken. The...

ARRIVAL AT NEW BERNE. About nine this morning we saw our first of Rebeldom, and after taking a pilot, and passing several ugly-looking rip...

PHILADELPHIA. We were too crowded in the cars to see much, or to do much, coming here. Most of us slept nearly all the way. I did for one, b...

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...

HUDSON CAMP GROUNDS. I have enlisted! Joined the Army of Uncle Sam for three years, or the war, whichever may end first. Thirteen dollars pe...

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, ...

Rained yesterday and last night. Clear and windy to-day. It is said the Blairs (who have been looked for on some sort of mission) turned b...

After a very cold night spent in sleeplessness, I arose, determined to have something better to eat than our daily ration of coarse meal and...

Arrival at the National Capital. By daylight the cupola of the Capitol greeted our eyes, a reviving sight after three sleepless nights. Col....

Camp near Centreville. The troops remained quiet all day. Fresh beef as rations. SOURCE: Theodore Reichardt, Diary of Battery A, First Reg...

Yesterday being Sunday, and no enemy appearing, we had a day of comparative rest. In the morning we were marched into town for fear the Yank...

Bright and beautiful. Some firing was heard early this morning on the Darbytown road, or in that direction; but it soon ceased, and no fig...

Evening. About six, the Burnside came down the river with horses, hogs, chickens and prisoners. They took Col. Bryant, just as he returned...