Two letters to-day, and two papers, all from home. Seems as if I had been there for a visit. I wonder if my letters give them as much pleasu...

July 7, 1864. The shooting still continues in our front, but hear no Rebel artillery. The water here is excellent, and everybody seems...

June 13, 1864. The rain continued until 5 p. m. Everything and everybody thoroughly soaked. Our division moved about one-half mile to t...

Scottsboro, Ala., April 28, 1864. We received marching orders last night, and will probably move to-morrow morning. Supposition is that...

September 28, 1863. By the exercise of a little strategy, this morning I caught a chameleon who had ventured out of a hollow tree to go...

Camp at Messenger's Ferry, Big Black River, Miss., September 22, 1863. I wrote you a few lines from Vicksburg on the 18th inst . ...

Headquarters 1st Division, Battery Island, June 25th, 1862. My dear Mother: I have received your kind letters with their urgent r...

Aroused at daylight. Saddled and waited two hours for “forward.” Hornets’ nest by road. Bees after Gen. Shackleford and others, occasioned ...

It is now as hot and sultry as it was ever my lot to witness. The cloudy weather and recent rains make everything damp and sticky. We don...

11 p. m., 29th. — There is talk among the officers that Buell with 60,000 men is en route for Atlanta, Ga., intending to occupy that city, ...

Have not been dry for many days. Raining continually Some men took occasion while out after wood, to overpower the guard and take to the pi...

Another hot sultry day. Flies swarm about the commissary by thousands — a continual fight to keep them off. Got some lemons for Henry and s...

Camp near Point Pleasant, Mo., March 26, 1862. It is, to-day, very much warmer. I'm altogether too hot to be comfortable in my shir...

Another beautiful but warm day with no news. Insects of all descriptions making their appearance, such as, lizards, a worm four or five inc...

Cairo. I am converted to the belief that Cairo is not such a bad place after all. The record shows that less deaths have occurred here in s...

Lots of men come through here with their backs blue and bloody from beatings; and nine in ten of them got their marks in Memphis. A man fro...