While we are encamped life is so monotonous that I do not usually regard it as necessary to keep a diary, but occasionally we have a little ...

This morning, as I passed through the camp giving directions about cleaning and ventilating tents, whilst the regiment was on parade, my Col...

We are still in camp, where each day is like the preceding one. The same routine of "duty" is gone through with, which, to me, is ...

Nicholasville, Ky. We are again enjoying the quiet of camp life. Our miniature tents are pitched in regular order, streets are policed and b...

Crab Orchard, Ky. We arrived at 10 a. m., making ten miles from Lancaster this morning. Crab Orchard is a lovely town of about one thousand ...

Parson Bunting preached for us to-day. Nothing occured to change monotony of camp. Sick, and time drags slowly with me. SOURCE: Ephraim Sh...

In Camp—quiet. SOURCE: Ephraim Shelby Dodd,  Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member of Company D Terry's Texas Rangers , p. 10

Rained all night. train all day getting in. lie in camp. drizzly rain all day. to lighten the teams all the rations are issued 2 days bread,...

Corinth. I joined my Platoon, went into tent with E. W. Evans and T. J. Hungerford as before. Owing to my weakness I was not put on full dut...

Corinth. We were moved from the tent this morning to an old deserted house a quarter of a mile from camp. In the afternoon it snowed and by ...

Our camp here was made without consulting the Surgeons. It was laid out without order, and the tents are so close together that teams cannot...

We have moved our camp about one hundred rods, are out of the mud, on high dry ground, where the tents can be ventilated and the streets kep...

Reached as far as we can go today, our progress being stopped by a large rebel fortification called Fort Pemberton, which is about two miles...

Hurrah for camp once more! Our tents are being sent ashore and a detail from each company goes to put them up. This began just at night and ...

Cool. Routine of Drilling as usual—Battalion Drill superintended by the Lieut. Col. Nothing new as usual—The same dull monotony seems to per...

Rienzi. There was nothing to break the monotony of camp life. Wrote two letters. Washed clothes. In the evening news of another battle at Iu...

During these two days the regiment has been busily engaged in moving its camp about four miles. The new camp is to be called Camp Vanderwerk...

Left camp on the 16th on a scout to hunt up Blythe's forces. Orders came upon us suddenly to prepare two days rations and go in light ma...

In camps yet, with nothing to do and plenty to eat, and no fear of the enemy's pursuit. We had a military execution here yesterday, on t...

very pleasant—no news unusually quiet in camp. Distressingly dull nothing but Drill Drill all the time. SOURCE:  Transactions of the Illin...