This morning we receive orders to pack up and move back to Fort Holt. We cross the creek on an old flat-boat bridge. The roads are terrible....

To-day a rebel gunboat steamed up from Columbus and fired a few shots into Fort Holt. Our big gun below the camp of the Twenty-eighth Illin...

To-day the companies move into their new houses. Evening.–We are now nicely quartered in good substantial houses, strong enough to turn sho...

This morning it is still raining very hard. We find it difficult to keep the camp fires burning. Our camp is in the Mayfield Creek bottom. ...

This morning all looks gloomy. The hopes of attacking Columbus have vanished. We await orders to return to Fort Holt. This evening the qua...

This morning the steamer Aleck Scott proceeds down the river loaded with the Belmont prisoners, accompanied by federal officers from Cairo,...

Colonel Cook left Fort Holt today for Springfield, and in his absence Lieutenant Colonel Babcock commands the post, and Major Rowett the re...

The axes are now being swung in the Kentucky woods. The work on the houses goes on briskly. We remain at Fort Holt, working at our houses a...

. . . morning . . . we move[d] from the Fort, marching down the river towards Columbus, Kentucky. While passing down along the shore, we be...

This evening at 10 o'clock Lieutenant Colonel Babcock receives orders to report to post headquarters. Reporting, he receives orders to ...

Weigh anchor at daylight, and soon after proceeding on our way, we run on to a sandbar, where we remain three and a-half hours. Extricating...

Bird's Point, Mo. , January 13, 1862. After all the excitement and promise we have had of a trip into Dixie, we are still here in ...

Monday, December 2, 1861. While I was writing last night there really was a Rebel gunboat came up the river and fired into Fort Holt. I...

Bird's Point, Mo. , December 1, 1861. This, the beginning of winter, is the warmest and altogether the most pleasant day we have ha...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI, Saint Louis, January 6 , 1862 . To His Excellency the PRESIDENT: In reply to your excell...

Memorandum for a Plan of Campaign [about October 1, 1861] On, or about the 5th. of October, (the exact day to be determined hereaft...

CAIRO, Jan. 24. – The two gunboats sent up the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, as well as the two boats off Forts Holt and Jefferson in th...

CAIRO, Man 28. – The river is still rising.   Six feet more will sweep over Fort Holt. All kinds of reports are in circulation this eve...

FORT HOLT, Ky., Jan. 23, 1862 The 7th Regiment reached Cairo last Saturday evening.   We found Cairo one big, deep quagmire.   Mud, mud...

(Special to Chicago Evening Journal.) CAIRO, April 2. – The most terrific tornado that has visited this locality for several years, cam...