was cloudy and cool but no rain And thir was hevy canonading down on the Potomac to day SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartl...

When we had marched seven miles we heard cannonading. The enemy is trying to cross the river at Jacob's Ford, but our boys kept them bac...

Ours again to-day, but not as hard as before, but heavy enough. The cannonading is getting heavier. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary of a Tar He...

This morning, at daybreak, cannonading was heard by us from General Pettigrew's line, which is on our left flank. We immediately fell in...

Fighting over the enemy's fortifications. This morning our whole line of artillery—seven miles long-opened on the doomed city and fortif...

We have orders to stay in camp, ready to move at a moment's notice. Our marching orders are still delayed, so we have enjoyed a good res...

Pumpkin Vine Creek, near Dallas, Ga., May 26, 1864, 8 a. m. We did not make more than seven or eight miles yesterday, on account of s...

Up early and moved at 4 A. M. 2nd Brigade in rear. Passed through Keysville at 5 A. M. Took a detail of 20 men away from column for horses ...

At 4 A. M. moved out on Sussex C. H. road and camped 8 miles from Petersburg. In evening drew rations and forage. In P. M. awful connonadin...

CITY POINT, Va., March 30 , 1865 — 7 . 30 p.m. Hon. SCRETARY OF WAR: I begin to feel that I ought to be at home, and yet I dislike...

Fair, comfortable day; men busy putting up quarters; shall commence my hut when the men finish theirs ; good news from Generals Sherman and...

Camp Maskell, near Gauley. — Ninth to twelfth bright, warm days; cold nights; snow scarcely melted at all on the north side of the hills. T...

Near Farmington, Miss., May 28, 1862 We moved up here this morning under the hottest sun and over the dustiest roads, and I then helped...

[Camp On Munson's Hill, Near Washington , August 30, 1862.] We are in hearing of a battle that is progressing some ten or fifteen m...

Well, another birthday has passed and with it another year has gone, and one of great military experience, and I trust it has been profitab...

Marched at 6 o'clock a. m. Our regiment has been train guard; cavalry has had warm work in the locality of Winchester, Va., as consider...

At sunrise heard canonading on the right, in the direction of the other detachment, when we commenced falling back, keeping as near in line...

The Rebs in front of us fired but little during the night, they shelled our working party at the 6 gun battery close by us from the mortar ...

Mail was to leave the camp at 12 today; sat down to write a letter before I was ½ through was detailed to take charge of a squad of 30 men ...

Rains hard all night. grond flat & all drawn out of bed Rains all A. M. 1st Brig 2Div starts out early men pull the batteries through. ...