The regiment came back to-day. Have been gone four days. Had some hard marching and lived high on pigs and chickens found by the way. They w...

By 6. a. m. all ready march to the river descend at a steep bluff. was possible to get down but impossible to get up if up was the word, wer...

Tallaloosa, Miss.   Aroused early to prepare to march. High wind, appearance of a storm. We were hitched up with the rest of the Battery by ...

Byhalia, Miss.   Rained nearly all day. Hitched up in the morning. The other sections took the road, but as we were to be the rear guard, an...

This has certainly been one of the most exciting days I have spent in the service. We crossed the river on a transport to the Louisana shore...

Albert, the cook, was swindled in the purchase of a fowl for our New Year's dinner; he supposed he was getting a young and tender turkey...

We went forty miles last night. This is a rainy day. Fortune seems to be against us when we float the Mississippi. Our rations in the bread ...

Boggs, Buttons and I went over the river this morning on an old flat log. About 10 o'clock Si Livingston and I had permission to go out ...

All quiet in camp to-day, only some little foraging for ducks, chickens, pigs, &c., so that the sons of Uncle Sam's family enjoyed t...

Forenoon we drilled some in skirmish. 4 Oc we ware on dress perade I was in town a short time afternoon & priced some things Flour is $4...

The story of yesterday's fight is all  bosh . There were no two hundred prisoners taken—no fifteen killed—no fight—not a rebel seen! Mun...

I have just received a letter from a lady friend of mine aye, and of the soldiers, too, in which she says she "cannot but think of the ...

WEST POINT, N.Y., Dec. 6, 1837. Dear Brother: In compliance with your request I sent you a paper shortly after the reception of your letter,...

Then Lieut. Newell told us to "go," and we went, as well as we could, for quarters. Arriving at the granary, and having left our  ...

A foraging party went out this morning. One of our boys killed five hogs and thirteen chickens, and found two government wagons and two barr...

Rienzi.   The 3rd Section, Lieutenant Hood, went out in front and the first fell back to its old grounds. Foraging party brought in two load...

After some trouble we managed to get to bed last night about eleven o'clock; but for a long time after that the mules kept us awake; per...

The Ninth and Fourth Ohio, Fifteenth Indiana, and one company of cavalry, started up the mountain between seven and eight o'clock. The C...

We started early this morning by the northerly road; we "fell in "regularly enough, but it was not long before we took the "r...

Left camp at Lumpkins Mills at six o'clock this morning, the 72d in the advance. General Grant passed us while we were at a halt. I was ...