Get the co up at 2. A. M. to get their breakfasts. At 3 take them to the paralel & get our position before daylight, bullets & shell...

Go to the rear this A. M. to see Capt who I find keeping pretty quiet, go to the Commissary & draw 30 days rations, as money has played ...

Had bad cold & did not rest any too well last night did not get up until called to breakfast. sky has the appearance of rain. I go to th...

There was tremenduous heavy firing last night [fron] 11. to 1. the sky was lighted with the flash of small arms, could not determine whether...

All the Regts rec orders to be supplied with 5 days rations in their haver sacks. Capt Lacy was in our camp looking well & hearty. Mail ...

No marching orders yet this morning & as our teams had all been called for during the night & sent back to the landing for supplies ...

Spend a pleasant day, have a skiff ride, boys fishing a great deal. plenty of eels in the creek, the train gone in with 3 wounded of the 91s...

Inspection at 9. A. M. Lt Hook comes to the Regt with the sad intiligence of the Assassination of President Lincoln & Sec Seward which i...

Regt on the road at 6. at 7.30 made Bon secure bayou. see great heaps of oyster shells more low ground today. they bay & gulf one place ...

Fine day; lay in camp all day quite a no of the men out to forage. see some Rebs. Capt sent back with detail for rations. Men pull the wagon...

Nothing unusual last night. I am relieved at 6. A. M. & marched the pickets to the Regt. which is on the road at 6.45, at which time the...

At 12. last night the Jonnies made a charge out of their forts on the skirmish line, draw it in on the left where the 7th Vermont was statio...

Rested tolerably last night, At 8. A M. The batteries open on the Forts & keep up a vigorous shelling for 3 hours. P. M. the felled timb...

Bill Boggs and myself secured a pass this morning early and started down to the canal. We followed the river bank until we were about one mi...

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

No. 231. Report of General G. T. Beauregard, C. S. Army, commanding Military Division of the West. HEADQUARTERS, &c.,           Gree...

NEAR VICKSBURG, July 3, 1863. Major-General SHERMAN: Pemberton wants conditions to march out paroled, &c. The conditions wanted are su...

CAMP ON BEAR CREEK, July 4, 1863. Major-General GRANT: MY DEAR GENERAL: The telegraph has just announced to me that Vicksburg is ours; its ...

HEADQUARTERS,           Army before Jackson, July 17, 1863—6 a.m. General Johnston, evacuated Jackson last night. I will occupy it with o...

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 44.} HDQRS. FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS,           Walnut Hills, Miss., June 9, 1863. To prevent communication between the enem...