We returned to Richmond yesterday morning, but as I did not care to march twenty-five miles I "ran the blockade" and came over on ...

Rained moderately untill 12 Oc night, when it commenced to pour it down in torrants & continued incessantly all the night long At 9½ Oc ...

The Arago did call for our mail and the body of Lieutenant Sterling was put on board to go to his family in Poughkeepsie. We gave the old sh...

Peter Carlo, the one who went through the medical examination at Hudson with me, died last night. He was found dead this morning and appeare...

Two more men died last night, but not from Company B. We sent off another mail to-day. I wish we might get some letters. We ought to have a ...

CHALMETTE.   Said to be just below the city of New Orleans. We left quarantine about 11 P. M. and reached here about 8 this morning. Many we...

It rained hard last night and before the tents got soaked up enough water sifted through to wet our blankets and we hardly slept at all for ...

Two doctors came to take the place of Dr. Andrus and they have had plenty to do. For several days the weather has been hot, which opens the ...

One year ago to-day the lamented Dreux fell at the head of his battalion. He was the first officer of high rank that fell on our side. Alas!...

A weak and disagreeable state of body since last date has waived my practice of noting; but everything has been as now—"hell upon earth...

Before day the dog horn and the yelping of hounds was heard. Men on parole about the depot had attempted to escape. Two trains of wounded fr...

The officers gave a dance in the upper part of the storehouse last night and the iron floor was fine for dancing. All hands were invited to ...

Fifteen cases of fever reported this morning. A dead man was taken out very early and buried in a hurry. This has given rise to the story th...

Nothing much out of the ordinary has happened since I wrote last. A man went out hunting and got lost in the tall weeds. He shouted until so...

Through the dark and lurid atmosphere of war the light of "Nature's own exceeding peace" still softly falls on the earth. The ...

Esther dead! Gone home two days before I heard or dreamed of it! But since she has gone home, — since it is only a glorious release for her,...

Corinth. We were again disappointed, the train leaving us behind and nothing to do but wait another twenty-four hours. In the afternoon E. W...

I have for some time had as mess-mates Surgeon J—— V—— and his two sons. I find him a most estimable Quaker gentleman, and he is by his cour...

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...

Louisville, Ky. Again in Louisville—eleven hundred miles nearer home than one week ago and yet how far. Still, it is joy to feel I am compar...