We are looking for the Dutchess County regiment as if their coming was an assured fact, yet it is only a rumor, and even that cannot be trac...

We returned to camps a little after dark at the same place we started from the morning before. It was a cold, rainy day. We learned that q...

None as yet gone to-day and it is already most night. My turn would not come until to-morrow, and if none go at all today I will probably n...

Got up bright and early, went to the creek and had a good wash, came back, after a good walk over the prison, and ate my two large crackers...

Steamer “Cosmopolitan,” bound to Beaufort from Savannah, Ga., January 21, 1864. I was at Beaufort some three days when I received a...

Exchange rumors to the effect that transports are enroute for Savannah for the purpose of taking us home. Stick right to my washing however...

Big scuffle with Rob yesterday. Makes me somewhat sore. Played a game of chess with John. Read the Atlantic which A. B. lent me. Called on ...

Received a few lines from George Hendryx, who again went out to work on the outside last night. Wirtz with a squad of guards is about the c...

Capt. Wirtz very domineering and abusive. Is afraid to come into camp any more. There are a thousand men in here who would willingly die if...

Great day. So many drunk. Officers gave the freest license to the men. Both caroused. I was most disgusted. Bill and L. fought. SOUR...

Tompkins Farm. — Smoky, foggy, and Indian-summery in the morning; clear, warm, and beautiful in the afternoon. I rode up to the regiment at...

Our entire regiment was at work on the fortifications. Nathan Chase and William Cross of my company had a fight today, all over some trivia...