Another hot day. How hot I don't know, but it wilted me. I tumbled down, completely used up while at drill. Several others did the same....

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...

Afternoon we met in convention the committy from the Belair Co & ours & selected men from the ranks of the various Companies to reco...

there was a large crowd of people in town our ellection for officers in our company was a spirited time D C Campbell elected Capt without op...

On or about April 25th, we were ordered to the Baptist College, a large brick building at the west end of the city, where we were put throug...

Our company held a meeting yesterday, and chose the following as officers Captain, Spencer V. Richardson First Lieutenant, James S. Newell; ...

John Beard paid me $4. I sold my garden for $250. Report of Indian outbreak. Great excitement. We elected our commissioned officers-Geo. Atk...

Rainy. We elected non-commissioned officers. SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson, Diary of Lewis C. Paxson: Stockton, N.J., 1862-1865 , p. 3

Lieutenant Joe Wyatt (Company C) was elected surgeon of McNairy's Battalion, F. W. Hearn (Company B), Quartermaster, and M. D. A. Nolan ...

As Tennesseans were then offering their services faster than the state was prepared to arm and equip them, it was after hard begging that Go...

UNIONVILLE, January 6, 1857 A N ELECTION is hereby ordered for COLONEL to command the 36 th Regiment of S. C. M., on Saturday, the 7 t...

Scottsboro, Ala., April 9, 1864. Don't be alarmed and imagine that I have “photos” on the brain. This is in all probability the las...

Whereas, certain of the forts, arsenals, custom-houses, navy yards, and other property of the United States have been seized, and other vio...

An active man would soon go mad if he were confined in Cairo. A mudbank stretching along the course of a muddy river is not attractive to a...

Blair denounces the practice of dismissing officers without trial as oppressive and wrong. Mentions the case of Lieutenant Kelly, a Pennsyl...

Word came to Major Burnett that the officers of the 2nd Ohio must be unanimous in choosing a colonel or someone from the regular army would...

We crossed the river Guadalupe at 5 A.M., and got a change of horses. We got a very fair breakfast at Seguin at 7 A.M., which was beginn...

The Eleventh Iowa Regiment was today sworn into the United States service for three years or during the war, and now we are a veteran regim...

Monday morning, after a few hours' rest at the Goodale or Capitol House, we went over to the governor's office and learned that the...

It rained all day. The band from Tipton left for home this morning. Our company held an election this afternoon for choosing non-commissio...