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

The Colonel returned at noon. I was among the first to visit him. He greeted me very cordially, and called God to witness that he had never ...

I am very hard worked just now. The Brigade Surgeon is sick, and I being the ranking Surgeon in the Brigade, have his duties to perform. In ...

I copied proceedings of court martial. SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson,  Diary of Lewis C. Paxson: Stockton, N.J., 1862-1865 , p. 11

Am told that some of the boys lost in gambling every farthing of their money half an hour after receiving it from the paymaster. An Indian...

It was with a bounding heart, brimful of gratitude to God, that I stepped on board the Dakota and bade farewell to Haines Bluff on the secon...

A little occurrence of a very unpleasant nature, today. I have, for a long time, felt that my Colonel was interfering with the Medical Depar...

Roll call as usual Quite cool rather unpleasant sleeping last night under One blanket Lt. F. Williams Officer of the Guard to day Lt Allen i...

Forenoon I drilled the Co & was on dress perade. 1st Lieut drilled the Co afternoon. I took my children & visited the hospitals. the...

Police Duty as usual, respective Companies fixing up their camp ground. Nothing of importance to day except the arrival of a Comp. of 50 men...

A fine morning. I did not do anything in the afternoon. Singing in the tents in the evening. Court martial postponed. SOURCE: Lewis C. Pax...

Cloudy in the morning. Fine evening. A court martial of Ord. Gibhard. SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson,  Diary of Lewis C. Paxson: Stockton, N.J., ...

Election. I was clerk. Ignatius Donnelly, 129; William Cullen, 45; Republicans in Banks company, 52; opposition, 10. A bogus burlesque. Cour...

Camp Millington again. A sort of trial called a court-martial has been held and the boys who celebrated yesterday, are meditating upon it in...

Seward, apprehending a storm, wants a steamer to take him to Cuba. Wishes to be absent a fortnight or three weeks. Thinks he had better be a...

HEADQUARTERS, Knoxville, November 26 , 1861 . Hon. J.P. BENJAMIN,           Secretary of War: SIR: I have the honor to report that I arri...

Our brigade moved back from Anderson County to the vicinity of Jacksborough. McNairy's Battalion camped six miles south of town on the C...

General Orders, No. 27.} WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,           Washington, March 21, 1862. The following Acts and Resolut...

 [The] Fifth and Ninth Virginia consolidated as First Veterans West Virginia Volunteer Infantry. A splendid regiment it will be. Rode with C...

I called to-day on Secretary Fessenden with Farragut’s dispatch and the order of the President permitting A. J. Hamilton of Texas to bring o...