Nothing worth writing for a few days. To-day those we left at quarantine came up looking hale and hearty. Most of them have had smallpox or ...

Cleaning house day in the hospital. I have been helping so one of the nurses can get off for a walk outside. We found a burying ground where...

One of Company A's men died to-day. His name was Burch. A boat-load of negroes landed here to-day and were taken down towards the city, ...

Wrote and mailed some letters this morning. Wm. Partington died in this room this morning. He and I came here the same time and lay side by ...

The regiment has gone and I am left. When will I get clear from the hospital? One of the hospital cooks, E. Furguson, died to-day. There are...

William H. Ashley died this day at Cairo. The firing still continues. Lt. Allen left the Boat, on board the Steamer Rob Roy in a skiff with ...

Spring has long delayed her coming here as well as northward. I could not be comfortable this P. M. in my room without a fire. Still, despit...

A death in the house. Little Clark, the only son of Rev. E. P. Smith, aged three and a half years, died last night. It is a sad affliction. ...

Have been to Hospital, No. 1, at the request of a mother whose young son had died there. She is in great anxiety to learn something of his l...

CAMP NEAR HAGERSTOWN, MD.,           JULY 9TH, 1863. MY PRECIOUS WIFE: On yesterday I wrote a bungling letter to my "little man"...

Expectation is still on the strain. How long it has been kept up! But no order to move, and I doubt whether we get any soon. Indeed, I think...

I made out returns and wrote two letters. An awful snow storm came up just in the evening. Hospital walls caving in. Private Small, Co. D of...

Nothing of special importance occurred except the arrival of train and last supplies from Alexandria and mail. D. Phelps, Co. D, Seventh Min...

In the hospital after all. Dr. Andrus came last night to our tent and ordered me into the house I spoke of. I had a warm, dry bed and a good...

Captain Bostwick came to see me to-day. Two men died last night, one in the hospital and the other in his tent. I don't feel as well to-...

Am very weak yet. A little tires me out. A letter from Herman just a month old. Coon died last night, but we none of us knew it till we saw ...

Too much excitement yesterday and I feel like two weeks ago. The doctor says I will have these setbacks though and it is only a part of the ...

Poor Crowthers died very peacefully about noon to-day. His cot is next mine and he seemed like one of the family to me. The company has unde...

The finest morning yet. The air is just right. The birds are singing, the sun shining bright and everything seems just right for getting wel...

Another fine day, and another trip downstairs. My legs behaved better this time. Am not near so tired. Now that I can write without getting ...