I have allowed a huge gap to occur in this Diary, for which I can offer a poor excuse. I have been sick with head-ache for about three weeks...

[June 19, 1863.] There is a partially organized regiment of Colored troops in your corps. Please order them together with their women and ...

CAMP OLIVER. We are now in a neatly arranged camp on somewhat elevated ground at the west side of the city, and about a quarter of a mile to...

No. 130. Reports of Lieut. Col. Laurence H. Rousseau, Twelfth Kentucky Infantry, of operations November 30 and December 15-16, 1864. ...

June 4, 1864. We have had a good deal of fun to-day. The firing has been brisker than usual on account of our advancing our works. We g...

Iuka, Miss., October 21, 1863. We reached here the evening of the 18th inst., and I have been on extra heavy fatigue nearly ever since ...

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Jackson, Tenn., March 5, 1863. You certainly should not complain of my neglect, in writing no more than ...

Camp Defiance. We have been seeing and feeling the roughest side of camp life, ever since my last. Rain in double-headed torrents; lightnin...

Drilled co. a. m. cooler today. One Regt of nigs come up Wednesday evening, go to Brownsville this P. M. At 2. P. M. detailed with 25 men f...

Mail was to leave the camp at 12 today; sat down to write a letter before I was ½ through was detailed to take charge of a squad of 30 men ...

I worked a fatigue party on a fort all night arriving in camp about 5 o'clock a. m. tired and hungry; slept until about 6 o'clock p...

Have just returned from the heights. The City of Petersburg looks lovely at a distance, but our guns command it and can at any time lay it ...

On Fatigue to build hospital for division — Davidson skirmishing in prairie SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa I...

At 10. A. M. raines spoiled inspection. P. M. 3 gunboats and 5 transport conveying stores and wagons below. ––– in 35, Mo. men would not ta...

Day passed quietly away. Spent most of the time writing. After dress parade without any previous notice were called into line to go on fati...

Nothing unusual till afternoon supper ordered at 5 P. M. to go on fatigue at night, went to plant battery was too light to work Pickets fir...

Maryland Heights , October 20, 1862. To-night I am all alone and naturally feel a little blue, so my letter may not be very cheerful. B...

Our new wedge tents were issued to us this morning by the quartermaster, and we worked all day pitching the tents and building bunks. I was...

I was on fatigue duty, hauling wood for the picket post out in an open field. General Hunter reviewed our brigade today and inspected Compa...

The weather is still warm. Our fatigue duty is not so laborious now, but the picket duty is becoming more strenuous if anything on account ...