At about four o'clock this afternoon we met two of our gunboats near Napoleon, Mississippi, who told us they had just dislodged a Rebel ...

STEAMER Convoy, Mouth of St. John's, March 29, 1863. This is one of the sad days of my life. The evacuation of Jacksonville is the bur...

THE TARBORO MARCH. On the morning of Oct. 30, Major Pickett, with six companies (the other four being on picket up the Trent road), left N...

January 27, 1863. I appropriated the mess-room for operations and the officer's berths to receive the wounded. Fortunately we had though...

STEAMER Ben Deford, FERNANDINA, FLA., January 28, 1863.   While superintending the transfer of the wounded from the John Adams last night, I...

October 12, 1864. Last night while our train was passing through Cassville, a town four miles south of Kingston, an ambulance gave out a...

We had a serenade last night. It was given by Holbrook, Fuller, and others. They spoke about it at breakfast and General Hunter laughed he...

To-day we have an account of the burning of Darien, Ga. The temptation is strong for our army to retaliate on the soil of Pennsylvania. ...

Marched for Frederick at 5 o'clock a. m.; dusty and hot; arrived at 9 o'clock a. m.; camped in a shady grove; Chambersburg reported...

Marched hard all night and daylight found us nearly through the gap; have marched hard — fairly raced —all day; brought up on the east side...

Camp Number 5, Princeton , May 5, 1862. Sir : — This whole region is completely conquered. Rapid movement is all that is needed to take...

Camp No. 5, Princeton, Mercer County, Virginia, May 2, 1862. Dearest : — I reached yesterday this town after a hard day's march o...

Camp 5, Princeton. — Marched at 6 A. M. Heard firing in advance. Turned out to be Company C on Camp Creek, attacked by Lieutenant-Colonel F...

The remainder of the brigade continued the march down the Bayov Lafourche, toward Brashear City. I took a stroll through the town. This had...

Unwell. Marine Brig. go up river burn a town after some fighting fireing heard below. SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 3...

We remained in bivouac all day. The Fifteenth Corps just came in on a road to our left and is to cross the Pedee ahead of the Seventeenth. ...

The First Division of the Seventeenth Corps crossed the river last evening after dark and drove the rebels back. Our engineers then laid th...

We started at 6 o'clock this morning and marched about fifteen miles. Our brigade tore up two miles of railroad. We passed through Winn...

Our division relieved the Third Division on the skirmish line at the bridge this morning, while they went down the river about a mile, laid...

Camp Near Charlotte, February 28. I thank you a thousand, thousand times for your kind letters. They are now my only earthly comfort, e...