At one o'clock P. M. General Reynolds sent for Two of Colonel Wagner's companies had been surrounded, and an attack on Wagner's ...

Headquarters 1st Division, Battery Island, June 25th, 1862. My dear Mother: I have received your kind letters with their urgent r...

Rienzi, Tishomingo Co., Miss., June 9, 1862. Saturday morning the 5th inst. the colonel and myself started for a little pleasure ride a...

September 17, 1861. Well, I've slept half of this day and feel sleepy yet. I had a tough time on picket last night. We were divided...

Musketoes & fleas, drove Morpheus out of the Bks, A. M. to Com for stores for Mess, writeing a little too hot to work much. Orders to t...

Quite busy all day & late at night Musketoes & fleas bad. SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa Infantry,” ...

Rained very hard during the night, hearing that during the night a boat had come in Luiet Laughridge & I go to the landing. find no boa...

The 2d Brigade starts at 7 A. M. with 4 days rations & in light marching order are accompanied by one battery of 6 guns & 30 empty ...

A. M. to commissary for stores. The fort is laid out today, & details made to work on it. At noon was detailed for picket to report imm...

I slept well last night in spite of the tics and fleas, and we started at 5.30 P.M. After passing a dead rattlesnake eight feet long, we re...