Our part in this expedition is done, and we are on our way back to Knoxville. Wilcox's "baby brigade," as our boys call them, ...

Soldiers and negroes are rebuilding the fallen wall. Prisoners stand at a distance often shouting: "That is good for you, Rebs"; ...

Great excitemenent. Rebels hung out flag of truce and General Grant has gone to meet General Pemberton. All are on the qui-vive to know what...

Pemberton accepted Grant's terms which the reader of this must look to some history to see what they are. Orders came to hold ourselves ...

On the morning of the 3rd when the rebels hung the flag of truce from their fort on the Jackson road, word soon passed along our whole line ...

I was detailed on fatigue this morning. The detail from our regiment worked on the big break in the levee. We did a good day's work, and...

Davis Mills. We had a general inspection by U. S. Grant and General Quinby of the 3rd Division. SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd Jones,  An Artillerym...

Started at four a. m. Reached Raymond by ten o'clock.  The   churches were full of the wounded rebels and our men, for there had been qu...

Drove the enemy across the Big Black River, capturing quite a number, with artillery; built a bridge, taking the timber from cotton gins and...

Tremendous cannonading early this morning. I have never heard anything to equal it. It seems to be Grant's tactics to keep the Rebs busy...

Bright and clear, warm and pleasant. How well do I remember two short years ago today when we took a sleigh ride and made a regular family v...

We moved back to the old side, five of us, unbeknown to Rebs, it being improved by the removal of so many to the new part, and to get near t...

Prisoners arrive, 300, taken at James Island, S. C., the 3rd, belonging to the 52nd Pennsylvania, also a squad from Virginia. Fierce lightni...

Disembarked at our old camping ground below Helena on the sand ridge. Await orders now from General Grant for our next move, which we unders...

Landed at Milliken's Bend. General Grant's army is here encamped under the immediate command of General Grant, and under him command...

COLUMBUS, OHIO, December 6, 1869. DEAR GENERAL: — I am just in receipt of your note of the third with an article from the  Statesman  anne...

No. 1. Reports of Brig. Gen. U. S. Grant, U. S. Army, commanding District of Southeast Missouri, and including operations against Thompson...

No Drill this morning. We have rec'd marching Orders, also the 30th 31st & 7th Iowa 22 Ills. and 2 Co's Cavalry and one Battery ...

Gen. Grant passed through here this morning on the train. The division of Denver's, (ex-governor of Kansas, for whom Denver City was nam...

Yesterday a sentry fired on a man who was attempting to kill a snake near the dead line, but missed him, the shot taking effect on four othe...