Left McCracken's at 3 o'clock in the morning. It is my birthday. I am 29 years old to-day (Sunday), Reached Fairfield (70 miles east...

Christmas. A fine day, and, being my birthday, I was allowed a furlough, for chum and self, from reveille till tattoo. We started as early...

A bright frosty morning. This day I am fifty-five years of age. It is now reported that Gen. Early made his escape, and that most of his...

Twenty-one years of age to-day! Little did I think this time last year that I would be here now, and in arms against the United States gover...

Marched back to our camp at Moulton's Ford, and our regiment was sent on picket at Mitchell's Ford, seven miles from camp. This has ...

I am this day sixty-three years old have attained my grand climacteric, a critical period in man's career. Some admonitions remind me of...

My birthday to-day. I am a man twenty-one years old, but I must say that I have been doing a man's duty before I was twenty-one, providi...

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...

My birthday—forty-two. Wrote to mother. Lieutenant Meigs killed last night by guerrillas, three miles south of camp. Houses on the road for ...

HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA, October 4, 1864. Dear MOTHER: — I celebrate my forty-second birthday by writing a few letters. We have had a few ...

My birthday—55. Bright and frosty; subsequently warm and pleasant. No news. But some indignation in the streets at the Adjutant-General'...

SEMINARY, February 10, 1860. . . . I have now crossed the line 1 and suppose I must rest satisfied with the title of the “Old Man,” the “...

My thirty-seventh birthday yesterday. Never thought I would spend it in South Carolina, on a plantation too, and there by right as occupan...

Ma's birthday. God bless her and grant her many years to live. 55. Packs and train ordered back. Moved back to fight rebs. Found them a...

My birthday. Would I could see Ma and sisters. God bless them. Gen. W. relieved by Gen. Custer. Gen. W. ordered to Gen. Sherman, Chief of c...

F.'s birthday — alas! alas! Busy all day getting Q. M. stores and fixing up for the march. Wrote home and to George. Didn't get to ...

Train all gone to Bull's Gap. A drizzling rain all day. Had just got in with forage and provisions when several pickets were taken and ...

Charlie came over in the morning. Finished letters home and to Fannie A. Yesterday was birthday of Fred Allen. Wrote him a congratulatory l...

Visited the battle-field with Lucy, Mr. Rudy, Corporal West, and Carrington this [my] fortieth birthday, Hunted up the graves of our gallan...

After breakfast, mustered. Issued two days' rations. Lt. Abbey started for Stanford for rations. Bob, Ritter and I overtook the column ...