A little incident occurred yesterday, which is very gratifying to some of the boys, showing the confidence our captain places in their word,...

After A night of watchfulness in which I did not alow myself to steep the morning dawn is welcomed with glad harts by us all & the merry...

The pleasant days have ended. The clouds hang heavy and black, and the rain descends in torrents. After eleven o'clock last night I ac...

CHALMETTE.   Said to be just below the city of New Orleans. We left quarantine about 11 P. M. and reached here about 8 this morning. Many we...

Moscow. Laid in tent all day. Mail arrived in the afternoon. Received two very welcome letters from home and Thomas L. SOURCE: Jenkin Lloy...

Moscow. Orders were sent to Captain to have two best non-commissioned officers to report at Colonel Powell's headquarters by 8 A. M. Ser...

We were aroused this morning at 3 o'clock and ordered to be ready to march at 5 o'clock. In a very few minutes hundreds of fires wer...

Raining very hard all day; 'tis extremely dull in camp. As is the weather so is the spirit; the sombre clouds of a gloomy day often cast...

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...