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...

I helped to bury Cousin A. N. Ramsey, who had died of fever two days before, from Franklin County, Alabama, and a member of the sixteenth Al...

October 31.—Reached Tuscumbia from bivouac at Town Creek; found the pontoon unfinished and no supplies; waited here nine days, and on the 10...

We laid on the battlefield of the first day, this the fourth day of July. No fighting to-day, but we are burying the dead. They have been ly...

No. 3. Report of Col. John Coburn, Thirty-third Indiana Infantry. HDQRS. THIRTY-THIRD REG'T INDIANA VOLUNTEERS,           Camp Wildc...

This morning the fallen soldier's comrades bury him in a lonely place. Thus is this land being dotted all over with the Union's nobl...

No. 235. Itinerary of the Army of Tennessee. 1 November 14 to 20.—Army at Florence, Ala. November 21.—Left Florence. Encamped to-nigh...

Cloudy and pleasant. Still we have no authentic account of the details of the fights on the north side of the James River. We know we lost...

Oh! what a terrible scene does Shiloh's field present this morning. It is a scene of death; its victims lay everywhere. The blood of abo...

The line of battle of the Fourth Division is formed before day; all ready to commence the terrible work again. The night, was rainy, disagr...

HEADQUARTERS-CORPS OF CADETS,             July 4 , 1864 . GENERAL: In obedience to General Orders, No. --, headquarters Virginia Mili...

This morning a fatigue party is detailed from the Seventh to help bury the dead on the battle field, and those who died from wounds receive...