Started before day for Fort Donelson. Had to walk to keep from freezing. Got to the Fort about three hours by sun. Our Regiment sent on Fort...

I left home* to rejoin the battalion near Murfreesboro. After a ride of nineteen miles I, with several others of Allison's Company, stop...

By daylight all of Colonel Statham's Brigade had crossed Caney Fork except a few wagons. Before night General Carroll's Brigade, exc...

HEADQUARTERS WESTERN DEPARTMENT,           Edgefield, February [17, 1862]. Major-General CRITTENDEN,           Commanding Chestnut Mound: ...

We have spent three days in front of the enemy, and, notwithstanding the fact that we have been under the fire of one of their batteries and...

It was said that another picket skirmish on the north side of the river resulted in the killing of two of our men and one of the enemy. It...

This morning the boys remain in their bunks unmindful of reveille, showing a determination to obtain some sleep and rest after the two days,...

This morning our camp is staked off, and we take our position and stake our tents. Our brigade now consists of the Seventh, Fiftieth and Fif...

Troops are moving to-day in almost every direction. It seems that the old Second Division is collecting together for some forward movement. ...

[O]ur regiment receives a new stand of colors. The colors we carried through the battles of Fort Donelson and Shiloh are now so mutilated th...

It is reported to-day that Price has been beaten, and is now making a flank movement towards Corinth. Soon we are ordered to Corinth, and th...

Glorious news from the war today. Fort Donelson is taken with 1,500 rebels. The right and the North will surely triumph! SOURCE: Car...

It is now move ing [ sic ]—a beautiful Sabbath morning. The dews have gone to heaven and the stars have gone to God; the sky is all inlaid ...

We leave Nashville; descend the river, and return to Clarksville, where we are again quartered in the old tobacco factory. We still find Cl...

Nothing of note has occurred to relieve the monotony of camp life. There is now a large army concentrated here. Far away on the hills and i...

This morning a fatigue party is detailed from the Seventh to help bury the dead on the battle field, and those who died from wounds receive...

[W]e land at Clarksville, Tennessee, forty miles above Fort Donelson. After landing, the regiment is quartered in an old tobacco factory, w...

This morning the boys in blue are everywhere in and around Fort Donelson, scattered among the boys in gray, rehearsing the scenes they have...

There is a clear blue sky over head. Aids and orderlies are moving hither and thither; drums are beating and bugles are blowing as if to say...

This is a beautiful still morning, though its stillness is occasionally interrupted by the heavy cannonading on the Cumberland. After hasti...