Camp Warren, Ia. Sept. 29th/61 Ia Cavalry                Dear Sisters 1 I received your kind letter yesterday morning but as I did not hav...

General Mitchell has issued an immense number of orders, and of course holds the commandants of regiments responsible for their execution. I...

La Grange, Tenn. Awoke to hear the rain pattering briskly on the Sibley [tent] above me. We were called out, and with expectations to march,...

Crab Orchard, Ky.       Again has the note of preparation sounded in our camp, and all hands are busy getting ready for another campaign. In...

Grand Junction, Tenn. It having rained during the night, the dust was converted to mud. Ate a breakfast of cold beef and bread, filled our c...

This afternoon I rode by a mountain path to a log cabin in which a half dozen wounded Tennesseeans are lying. One poor fellow had his leg am...

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...

Another hard night; one of a few very cold and disagreeable ones. We left the ranks early for rails, and after carrying them two or three mi...

I introduce the following letter to a friend, as sufficiently explicit as to the occurrences since the last date: CHAIN BRIDGE, VA., Sept....

We are all togged out with new blue clothes, haversacks and canteens. The haversack is a sack of black enamelled cloth with a flap to close ...

Still in Hudson. Was routed out twice last night, for no particular reason as far as I can discover, unless it was to make a miserable night...

Great excitement in camp; order was received to get ready for a forward movement; ammunition packed; haversacks and canteens were issued. ...

Our canteens are again filled with the contraband water, so we shall be all right today as far as that is concerned. Some of the boys made a...

As I look out on the Old Dominion, the Mother of presidents, statesmen and heroes, my mind is filled with historical reminiscences of its p...

June 30, 1864 8 a. m. There was a terrific fight on our right, commencing at 2 this morning and lasting until 3. I have not yet heard w...

We twist up pieces of tin, stovepipe, &c., for dishes. A favorite and common dish is half of a canteen. Our spoons are made of wood. Ha...

Commenced moving across at 4 and all the regiments over by 9 A. M. Some fortifications on both sides of the river; Zollicoffer's old hu...

Cairo. I am converted to the belief that Cairo is not such a bad place after all. The record shows that less deaths have occurred here in s...

Rained violently all day. Visited all officers to see if they were provided with canteens, etc., etc All very nearly ready. Streams will ri...

A lovely morning. Sent Sergeant Abbott to Fayetteville with five prisoners. Company A look splendidly; drill well, sing well, and, I doubt ...