It has cleared up and is quite cold. We sent off a large mail this morning. Last night we came very near having our barracks destroyed. The ...

Pass Port Hudson in the night also Battan Rouge. all day passing through the richest contry I ever saw. fine plantations splendid houses ...

. . . up and ready for battle at an early hour, and, after day-light, were allowed to build small fires. Under the dense fog, no demonstra...

Our Orderly Seargent left for home this morning. we were on Co drill & Dress perade evening the house we ware in took fire there was som...

After dinner with Ellie to No. 24, where I left her, and then seeing a glow in the southern sky over the roof of the Union Place Hotel, I st...

Last night’s Elm Street fire was a sad business. Some eighteen or twenty people perished. There was another fire in Lexington Avenue (dwelli...

News today of a fearful tragedy at Lawrence, Massachusetts, one of the wholesale murders commonly known in newspaper literature as accident ...

About 4 Oc I awoke by the sound of the fire & church bells there was a fine frame building burnt down the blaze looked nice but it was a...

Indian summer. Norton paid me 70, making us square. Painter painted my office. Stamps 60, blacking 10. Prairie on fire; very pretty. SOURC...

In camp eight miles from Oxford. We cannot move our camps but a few miles distance from the railroad, as all our subsistence depends on our ...

Camp near Lovetsville, Va., Oct. 28th. We bade farewell to Pleasant Valley, and started for the land of "Dixie" quite unexpected...

We see the Jersey shore this morning. Our vessel was racing with another. We had too much steam up; the consequence was a fire on board, but...

For the past ten days there was nothing of particular interest. Quite a number of men are sick. I was in the hospital today seeing my men an...

Yesterday we had a very large fire here. About 9 o'clock a fire broke out on the commissary boat "Admiral." I was "office...

February 28. I keep a blazing fire in my tent about half the time, these hot, humid days, to keep myself from moulding alive. It requires ...

November 14, 1864. Troops are coming in to-day on all the roads. ’Tis said that we will be ready to move to-morrow. So be it. The crack...

Early this morning the Seventh takes up the line of march for Blandville, Kentucky, to join McClernand's Division, already marched on b...

This morning it is still raining very hard. We find it difficult to keep the camp fires burning. Our camp is in the Mayfield Creek bottom. ...

After roll call earned a breakfast by chopping wood. Made a good fire. Drew a load of bricks from the country. Many of the boys are sufferi...

West bank of Crow Creek, near Stevenson, May 2d, 1864. Only about seven miles from last night's camp, but will have to wait until...