Variable & Pleasant 7 Oc I took the cars went to Madison then the packet Kate Cassel for Devenport SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, ...

7¼ Oc got to Davenport attended to some buisiness with the Adgt Gen'l got my Commission as 2nd Lieut & was mustered in by HB Henders...

Concord , Jan. 15, 1858. Sir . — Yours of the 9th and 14th is received. I regret that you 1 should have continued the abusive strain of...

Rained all day. A. M. Send Boxes to express office, addressed to Alexander care of Wells & co Oskaloosa, 12. M orders to move at 5 A. M...

I started for home, thirty miles distant, with Abner Hatch, who had come down from our neighborhood with a team for the purpose of taking a...

Our night along the lake shore was quite cool. We arrived in Chicago this morning at 2 o'clock, and then marched to the Rock Island sta...

I started with Uncle John this morning for Davenport, but one of his neighbors, Mr. Lathrop, soon overtook us and as he had to go to town a...

We reached La Salle at 2 o'clock this afternoon and changed cars for Davenport, arriving at our destination at dark. I took lodging at ...

We reached Cairo at 4 o'clock this morning and I went ashore with my comrades to the Soldiers' Home for breakfast. We then went to ...

MR. EDITOR:   I have been reconnoitering, in force, in the vicinity of Davenport, and as in duty bound, report to headquarters.   Perhaps m...