Considerable picket firing. Captain Owen opened with his twenty-pound Parrott guns, from Edwards Ferry, on Fort Beauregard. Kept up firing f...

Batteries A and B were ordered to report near Conrad's Ferry, where we arrived before sunrise, it being only five miles from our camp. W...

Evening of February 1st General Turner and I got on board a noisy little tug at the wharf which took us to the Ben Deford. We went upstairs...

There was a row on board last night; one of the officers having been too attentive to a lady, had to skedaddle suddenly into the woods, in ...

FIRST COLONEL, THIRTEENTH INFANTRY. Marcellus M. Crocker is a native of Johnson county, Indiana, where he was born on the 6th day of Februar...