Rained moderately untill 12 Oc night, when it commenced to pour it down in torrants & continued incessantly all the night long At 9½ Oc ...

I wrote off six copies of the work of board of survey. Kunze, of Company H of Eighth Minnesota, was frozen very badly. Was placed in the hos...

The different corps had only taken such positions yesterday as they could in the dark, but today troops were constantly being brought forwar...

Skirmishing, as usual. Quite a number of officers were sitting together just before dark eating their supper of coffee and hard tack, when t...

The stench from the bodies lying unburied on the battlefield becoming so great a flag of truce from the enemy made its appearance and permis...

The officers gave a dance in the upper part of the storehouse last night and the iron floor was fine for dancing. All hands were invited to ...

Fifteen cases of fever reported this morning. A dead man was taken out very early and buried in a hurry. This has given rise to the story th...

Leroy was buried early this morning. My part in it was to form the company and march it by the left flank to the grave. For fear this may no...

Corinth. We were again disappointed, the train leaving us behind and nothing to do but wait another twenty-four hours. In the afternoon E. W...

The Yazoo Pass expedition has ended and boats all back. Our return was monotonous, as we all felt dispirited at our failure. There was great...

Had orders last night at 12 o'clock to cook rations and be ready to move at 4 A.M., but this morning nothing farther is said about it. T...

Jackson.—We took position in the ditches early in the morning of the 9th, and have been here ever since, under fire of the enemy's sharp...

I worked in office. Two short at guard mount. One private from D buried. SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson,  Diary of Lewis C. Paxson: Stockton, N.J...

Started on our march to Memphis. Quimby's [ sic ] division are to guard a train of 600 empty wagons. The day's march was a terrible ...

We were rejoiced this morning to hear of Rosecrans' success, and, at the same time, not well pleased at the escape of the enemy under co...

Our company went back to Chestnut Mound. After the burial of Natcher and a short drill, we returned to our former boarding places. SOURCE:...

The morning of the sixth dawns beautifully, but upon a field of death-a field of blood; but thanks be to God, it dawns with the old flag tri...

Yesterday passed off in comparative quiet; a few shot and shell thrown from our batteries into the lines of the enemy, and a few rounds from...

This morning Colonel Rowett moves with the command towards Florence, leaving Company H, Captain Ring, near Cedar and Cox's Islands to gu...

Field Hospital near Spottsylvania Court House, Va., May 17, 1864. I received your letter of the 3d inst. this morning. You express regret...