After building houses and making our camp pleasant and comfortable, we move from Goldsboro on the tenth of April and march towards Raleigh, ...

On the twelfth we arrive at Lowell, and while here we receive the first news of Lee's surrender to General Grant. Sherman's grand ar...

We enter Raleigh, the capitol of North Carolina, pass through the city and go into camp one mile from the outer works. To-day Companies A an...

This morning we are ordered from our camp at three o'clock; it soon commences to rain very hard; the old North Carolina clay roads soon ...

This morning the dismounted portion of the regiment receives orders to report to regimental headquarters to be mounted. Oh! how welcome the ...

This morning Sherman's great army bow their heads in mournful silence over the startling news of the assassination. While we write we re...

On the 20th, prior to leaving Morrisville, Colonel Rowett, who was wounded at Allatoona, returns to the regiment. Never was a colonel's ...

On the morning of the 10th we move towards Richmond. For some cause unknown we do not enter the city, but are ordered into camp three miles ...

On the 17th we arrive at Alexandria and go into camp two miles from the city, and from or camp we can behold the Union's capital this ev...

On the 20th we turn over our stock, saddles and bridles to the A. Q. M., 4th Division. We part from our mules this time without any regrets,...

On the 24th of May we cross the long bridge spanning the Potomac and enter Washington City and pass up Pennsylvania Avenue, and by the White...

About the first of June we leave Washington by rail, taking the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and while passing by Harper's Ferry the m...

After weeks of anxious waiting for the orders and the completing of the rolls, on the ninth day of July, 1865, the Seventh Illinois Veteran ...

In the evening we move about four miles across an almost impassable swamp and go into camp. The seventy thousand are now making a terrible s...

We move early this morning; our Division is moving by itself upon a lone road, General Corse having orders to move across the country and fo...

We cross Black Water swamps and go into camp at Hickory Hill, making a distance of ten miles. SOURCE: abstracted from Daniel Leib Ambrose,...

We cross Whippie Swamp about noon to-day and go into camp for the night. SOURCE: abstracted from Daniel Leib Ambrose,  History of the Seve...

The roads still continue desperate, and in consequence we move slowly. In the evening we cross the little Saltkatchie swamp. SOURCE: abstr...

We move early this morning, but very slow; these swamps prove to be terrible obstacles to Sherman's seventy thousand. We soon come to th...

This morning we move our camp and shift around more to the left. Brisk skirmishing is now going on along the river, with some cannonading. I...