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...

Slept by a big fire last night — very comfortable. Regiments saddled ready for a fight. Sent Lewis back to S. Plains for rations. Had some ...

Did very litle in the forenoon. Robertson and Ritter ate with us. In P. M. detailed with 20 Co. B as picket. Relieved Co. L and Lt. Hillhou...

Last night some member of our company started a small fire close to the root of a pine tree. It was decayed through the center, which quick...