Nothing of importance stirring—very hot and rather hard to get anything to eat unless one's pocket is well lined with Confederate money ...

Camp near Fredericksburg, Dec. 9th, 1862. It has been a long time—fully five weeks since I made the last entry in this journal. The forced...

We were treated very good on the road, and especially at Goshen, N. Y. The ladies gave us eatables and the men gave us tobacco. SOURCE: Lo...

Our first morning in camp. We were rudely awakened and dragged from our bunks at six o’clock, very few being used to such early hours, excep...

Camp near Orange Court House, Va . , August 10, 1863. All is quiet here now. When two armies have a great battle both sides are so cripple...

Berkeley County, Va.,           October 8, 1862. When I left Charlestown yesterday morning the weather was delightful and I felt so buoyan...

Camp on Rappahannock River,                     Spottsylvania County, Va.,           December 28, 1862. The weather during Christmas has b...

Camp near Rappahannock River, Va . , March 5, 1863. Edwin, Jim Allen and Ben Strother took dinner with me yesterday, and I think I gave ...

Here all day. Tom Tiotter and myself went out to buy something to eat, but when we came to a house, they would close their doors in our face...

Showery. No war news, though important events are looked for speedily. It is time. If our coat-tails were off, we should, in nine cases ou...

Nothing to eat yet. Wortheim, W. Eagle and myself went out foraging, to buy something to eat. We got to one house and there was no one at ho...

Head Quarters, Dept, of the Ten,           Vicksburg Miss. July 14th 1863 Surgeon J. Moore           Medical Director, Sir: Gen. Smith,...

Raining. The sudden booming of artillery, shelling our department boys, intrenching at Bottom's Bridge, was heard until bedtime. I hav...

CAMP CEDAR CREEK, VIRGINIA, November 4, 1864. MY DEAR SON;— This is your birthday — eleven years old today — almost a man. In less than el...

FURLOUGH. Our last furloughed men have returned, and I have the promise of one next week, and am congratulating myself on the prospect of ...

Johnston is getting lively again, and beginning to kick up a dust in the rear; so we have orders to move tonight, with three days' cooke...

Up to date did not get half enough to eat. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier , p. 10

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,       New Orleans, May 16 , 1862 . Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: SIR: Since my dispa...

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 25.} HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF               New Orleans, May 9 , 1862 . The deplorable state of destitutio...

Another interposition of Providence in behalf of my family. The bookseller who purchased the edition of the first volume of my “Wild Wester...