All start this morning for Camp, find the wagons close to Fairfield, the Regiment three miles further on. I was sent after corn over the hig...

At 2 o'clock on the morning of the 17th an order came for the pickets to fall back noiselessly to the trenches, which we did very quietl...

We marched seven miles this morning, and, while resting several hours, cleaned out a corn-field near by. Started again, and again halted to ...

Made three miles yesterday, and are now encamped in a thick forest with an abundance of good spring water at hand. We are washing clothing a...

Rienzi.   Spent the morning as usual in suspense of leaving, but finally the orders came to send all the baggage train to Clear Creek, a dis...

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...

We had a great time to-day, having sent out this morning some six thousand troops, with about one hundred wagons, on a foraging expedition. ...

Once more we are on the wing. Yesterday morning we were ordered to be ready to march when called on. Of course, the men do not expect to sta...

Left Cowen’s Station and marched over the Cumberland Mountains to Cumberland Gap or Sweden Valley. Came upon a camp of General Adams’ rebel ...

Reached Buckhannon at 5 P. M., and encamped beside the Fourth Ohio, in a meadow, one mile from town. The country through which we marched is...

Magruder arrived at Bethel Church a few hours since, and right glad were we to see him, for “Old Mac," as we call him, has our fullest ...

VIRGINIA GIRLS OF SWEET SIXTEEN DID NOT LOVE US. Weather hot; two more trains of Rebel wounded pass. Report that General Wadsworth and oth...

After the fall of Fort McAllister, we obtain some supplies, but for the seventy thousand hungry soldiers they soon run out. For the last wee...

The Winona boys lying around with one blanket white with frost. Very fine morning. Marched 19 miles to Orino and put up for the night. Very ...

The gun-boats and steamers are still below the bend, where they have been since Monday. They come up every day and throw shells at our batte...

Clear and frosty. We learn vaguely that the attack on the defenses of Wilmington has been progressing since Friday, and that the enemy...

Bright, clear, and cold. It is said the government depot at Charlotte, N. C., has been burned (accidentally), consuming a large amount of ...

Rained hard all night. House leaking badly! We have nothing new in the papers this morning. It is said with more confidence, however, that B...

Six companies of the Seventh, and six companies of the Fiftieth Illinois Infantry, under the command of Colonel Rowett, leave Rome on a scou...

Camp near Orange Court House, Va . , January 3, 1864. The cars ran off the track below Gordonsville yesterday, consequently we have no mai...