Recent improvements in camp are timbers laid across the swamp on the west side north of the stream for 20 rods, this will help escape the fi...

The first news that greeted us this morning was marching orders. After breakfast we drew four days' rations, two of them cooked, put the...

Moscow, Tenn. Up at 4 A. M., cooked our breakfast and again on the road by 6 o'clock, and after a four hours' march through a broken...

After returning to Jacinto and cooking three days' rations, our battalion moved down to within one mile of Booneville, where our wagons ...

Bright and clear, warm and pleasant. How well do I remember two short years ago today when we took a sleigh ride and made a regular family v...

After cooking three days' rations, we struck tents and loaded our wagons. The wagons were sent to Booneville, twelve miles from Jacinto,...

Rienzi. We were aroused this morning with the same story of march and ordered to cook three days' rations and be ready to march at 1 P. ...

Scalding heat during forenoon; heavy showers follow. Water is running through camp like a flood. Prisoners reported missing, rations suspend...

This is the fourth day that Captain Cunard's company has been lying in the woods, three miles from camp, guarding an important road, alt...

Received our big cook-stove. Our ammunition was examined, and nearly all condemned. Usual routine of camp-duty. Orders were received to be r...

Wish I had been taught to cook instead of how to play on the piano. A practical knowledge of the preparation of food products would stand me...

Two letters to-day, and two papers, all from home. Seems as if I had been there for a visit. I wonder if my letters give them as much pleasu...

Camp at Darnestown. The battery received three new guns in the afternoon. Lieut. J. G. Hassard, having joined our battery, at Darnestown, co...

the Sabath and ther is a right smart ice on the ground to day And Bethel is a cooking I. H. Jonstons big turkey for dinner. SOURCE: Bartle...

ON BOARD THE CONFEDERATE GUN BOAT DR. BEATTY,} February 19, 1863.} YESTERDAY the expedition for the "wiping out" of the Yankee G...

Last night we tied up at the mouth of Red river, and this morning found our boat aground; but, after several hours' work, got her safely...

Yesterday I was on guard for the first time since I went soldiering. I cannot say that I particularly like the fun, but it gives one an oppo...

This morning the soldiers are on their feet and moving around the blazing campfires, busily cooking their breakfast, and their cooking utens...

Here we enter upon the patriotic month of July, and where and how we are to spend it is yet beyond our conjecture, for we never know in this...

THE SIGNAL CORPS ARRIVES. The long lost signal corps arrived today. We gave them a great ovation; flags and streamers flying, bands play...