Clear and fine. Roll call at 5½ A. M. as usual-Breakfast at 6½ Squad drill &c. more activity will be observed this week in drilling than...

Weather fine & pleasant,—with indications of rain Duties of the morning as usual—much rejoicing through out the camp—though no open demo...

Cloudy drissling rain, very unpleasant underfoot—quite a No. not out at Roll Call—placed on Extra Duty in consequence. Our Co. placed on Pol...

morning duties performed as usual Lt Allen Officer of the Guard to day. Weather pleasant but showery.—nothing of importance but drilling. Wa...

Weather pleasant. Drilling and other duties performed as usual. 60 muskets drawn by our Company this afternoon Other Comps. in our Regt. als...

Duties as usual performed. no Officers drill this morning as was given out last evening on Dress Parade Abut 10 O'clock to day one of th...

Reported capture of our Gun Boat proves to be false L. W. Williams detailed as Officer of the Guard to day Officers Drill this morning. Noth...

Newport News is a military post, and is of no importance in any other sense. There were no villages or cities here previous to the war. Now ...

we drilled some the Capt & 1st Lieut absent the 1st Lieutenant has been sick for several days. SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator,  Ann...

Mr Fee our Orderly drilled us today. Oliver Williams a Traveling preacher & Miss Ella Filkin was Married by C Morey SOURCE: Edgar R. H...

Capt Campbell got home afternoon I have been assisting in drilling most of the day 4 Oc Mr T M Fee 1 our Orderly & I went in buggy to M...

I am drousey but on drill part of the day Afternoon attend an official meeting in the M E Church to close up the business of the Conference ...

We drilled & elected 5 delegates from our Co to attend in this town on the 28th in Convention with the 3 other Co delegates from this Co...

We are attending to our drill afternoon I was sick at my stomach evening attended the Literary Society I was elected President protem after ...

We drilled some & took a descriptive list of the boys presant. evening attended a lecture by Proffessor Moffet on wreghtery [rhetoric] I...

We are getting right down to business now. Have company drill and will soon drill with the whole regiment together. To-day we practiced the ...

Two letters to-day, and two papers, all from home. Seems as if I had been there for a visit. I wonder if my letters give them as much pleasu...

Knapsack drill to-day,—something new to me, though I am told it is to take place every Sunday morning when in camp. As we were not here yest...

Another inspection to-day. This time our guns and accoutrements were inspected, and much fault was found because we had not kept our guns fr...

New tents were given us to-day. "A" tents they are called; I suppose because they are in the shape of a letter A. They are like th...