Weather fine & pleasant,—with indications of rain Duties of the morning as usual—much rejoicing through out the camp—though no open demo...

morning duties performed as usual Lt Allen Officer of the Guard to day. Weather pleasant but showery.—nothing of importance but drilling. Wa...

Camp McClernand Cairo Ills.   The 48 of our camp, detailed as patrol last night returned this morning at 5½ O'clock Roll call as usual. ...

Rumors are circulating that we are to be ordered away from here. I am glad of it as I like to be kept active. Still this garrison duty is ne...

COLUMBUS, KENTUCKY.   Last Tuesday we received marching orders from Paducah. Wednesday morning about 4 o'clock Co. A with some fifty sic...

On the afternoon of October 23rd we left Columbus by boat on an expedition, destination unknown until we reached New Madrid, Missouri. The f...

HEADQUARTERS RIFLE BRIGADE,           Knoxville, Tenn., December 9, 1861. Maj. Gen. G. B. CRITTENDEN, Knoxville: SIR: I have the honor he...

RICHMOND, September 13, 1861. Governor HARRIS, Nashville, Tenn.: Movement to Columbus was reported to me as a defensive measure, rendered...

CLARKSVILLE, September 15, 1861. His Excellency JEFFERSON DAVIS, Richmond, Va.: I am just from Nashville, where some dissatisfaction pre...

MEMPHIS, TENN., June 10, 1863. Lieut. Col. JOHN A. RAWLINS, Assistant Adjutant-General: COLONEL: I have received to-day one letter from Ca...

To-day a rebel gunboat steamed up from Columbus and fired a few shots into Fort Holt. Our big gun below the camp of the Twenty-eighth Illin...

This morning all looks gloomy. The hopes of attacking Columbus have vanished. We await orders to return to Fort Holt. This evening the qua...

MOSCOW, July 14 , 1862 . General HALLECK: Yesterday one of our forage trains, guarded by fifty cavalry, was fired on by a party that...

This morning the steamer Aleck Scott proceeds down the river loaded with the Belmont prisoners, accompanied by federal officers from Cairo,...

. . . morning . . . we move[d] from the Fort, marching down the river towards Columbus, Kentucky. While passing down along the shore, we be...

CINCINNATI, November 9 , 1861 . Major-General FRÉMONT: General Grant did not follow his instructions. No orders were given to attack...

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF CAIRO,                        Cairo, January 29 , 1862 . Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, Saint Louis, Mo.: In v...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,           Saint Louis, January 30 , 1862 . Brig. Gen. U.S. GRANT, Cairo, Ill.: SIR: You ...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY, February 7 , 1862 — 7 . 15 p. m.   Brig. Gen. D. C. BUELL,   Louisville, Ky.: Why not take the line of the Tenn...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO,         Louisville, Ky., February 5 , 1862 . Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, Commanding Department of M...