We marched about fifteen miles today and arrived at La Grange, three miles west of Grand Junction. It is dry and very dusty. Sometimes the d...

Corinth, Mississippi, August 19th, 1862. Dear Sister: Julia and the children left here on Saturday last for St. Louis where they ...

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 are once more getting settled in camp. Our duties are not as laborious as they were at Bolivar and Iuka. We have begun the building of f...

We struck our tents at daylight and at 8 o’clock left Bolivar for Corinth, Mississippi, about forty-five or fifty miles distant. We marched...

The brigade received marching orders to leave in the morning at daylight and we packed our knapsacks today. The talk is that we are to go t...

It rained all last night. Bolivar has a town clock which can be heard as far out as our camp. The town watchman keeps calling out the hours...

We were expecting to be attacked today and so were in line of battle most of the time. Our pickets to the south of town are still skirmishi...

Companies G and B came out this morning to relieve us from picket duty at the big cut. We have had very little rest while on picket and pat...

I went out on picket this morning to remain at the one post for twenty-four hours. I was on vedette for eight hours, two hours at a time. T...

Some very hot weather today. It is my turn off duty today, but I dread the picket tomorrow on the main road going into Bolivar. Source:...

We are having some very hot weather. Since coming to Bolivar, each man is permitted to cook his rations in his own way, and so every man ha...

The Eleventh Iowa drew two months’ pay today. I received $26. We are able to purchase most any kind of goods needed, right here at Bolivar ...

We started at 8 o’clock this morning and arrived at Bolivar at 12 o’clock noon. We went into camp two miles east of town on the banks of th...

We struck our tents and at sunup started on our march for Bolivar, Tennessee. Our guide took us on the wrong road and we countermarched abo...