We marched about fifteen miles today and arrived at La Grange, three miles west of Grand Junction. It is dry and very dusty. Sometimes the d...

Yesterday we made short marches, halting at every good shade to rest. The heat was very oppressive. At Clinton a brigade was sent to meet th...

Battalion-drill again. Learning to be a soldier is hard work. There has been no rain lately and the sun has dried up everything. There are n...

On picket again to-day. We are at a new place, on the road to Frederick, but not as far out as Catonsville. It is plain to see it is only fo...

The air is full of rumors to-day that we are to go somewhere, and that very soon, yet no one seems to be able to trace them. Experience has ...

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...

Between Chickahominy and Pamunky Rivers, Va., June 1, 1864. Your letters of the 24th and 26th ult. both reached me last night. The mails s...

 Marched on, passed through Leesburg, Canada, Hockinsville, and Centerville, all small villages. We got to Carlisle, Pa., at sundown. Marche...

Bright and beautiful. As I walked down to the department, heavy and brisk cannonading below assailed the ear. It was different from the or...

Left this morning, marched twenty-one miles, halted at 5.30. It is a very hilly country, warm and dusty. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary of a T...

Early this morning we are off for Corinth, moving over the old familiar highway. Oh! how dusty; the rising clouds almost hide the sun. We ar...

It is still raining this morning and in lieu of dust we have mud. We are now fifty miles from Corinth, whither the advance is headed. We arr...

This morning by sun-rise we are moving. The advance encounters a squad of Newsom's band at Jack Creek, which is soon put to flight. One ...

This morning Dick leads the Seventh forth again, heading for West Tennessee. Soon we are winding through the Mississippi forests. The weathe...

Springfield, Sept. 7th.   I never had better health in my life, though we had a hard time[.] While marching from Sedalia to this place—a dis...

Cloudy, but still hot and dry. From the clouds of dust seen rising between Petersburg and the James River, it is conjectured that Grant...

Right Bank Roanoke river, Robbin's Ferry, N. C. May 3, 1865. About 20 miles to-day and the latter fourth quite dusty. We did not get the...

This morning we are soon on the march, moving in the direction of Corinth. Oh! how hot and dusty; we seem to be moving through one vast hot ...

This morning we still remain undisturbed in our bower camp. Troops are hourly passing us, moving southward. The roads are very dusty; wate...

[We] marched [from Lexington] to Buchanan. A hot, dusty march, twenty-four miles. Bathed in James River. The next day [we pushed on] to ...