Regt in line to move at 6. Rec orders to wait. At 12. I am sent with a detail to corderoy the road. The train all stuck in the mud. men pull...

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...

Our Regt. on Guard to day. Rec'd our Pay yesterday. Sixteenth Ills. arrived here last night. To day they have gone over to Birds Point. ...

No news of the expidition yet. Too mudy to do any thing yet but stand Guard. It rains about half the time. Both Rivers are still raising, ...

Weather still cold No duty can be performed except to stand guard & perform fatigue duty an uncommon amount of which has fallen to our s...

Our Regt. on Guard to day Lt. Williams detailed with 40 men on fatigue duty to Mound City to day, more news from Fort Donelson to day rather...

CAMP NEAR CULPEPPER,           JUNE 8TH, 1863. MY PRECIOUS WIFE: I have determined to write you another letter, although I cannot do so wit...

I was on guard (supernumerary), all day and was not called out. It was rainy this morning. SOURCE: Seth James Wells,  The Siege of Vicksbu...

On guard. Stood picket in a large cotton field which contains five or six hundred acres of cotton, unpicked. I went back to the cane brake a...

For the last two days we have had no drill out of doors, and very little guard. It has rained steadily. The "Dudley Buck" arrived ...

To be noted. Our company was declared the  cleanest  company! Consequently no guard for us to-morrow. Notwithstanding our  camp  is quite ...

General Mitchell called this afternoon and requested me to form the regiment in a square. I did so, and he addressed it for twenty minutes o...

I was on guard supernumerary in the daytime and stood beyond Wolf Creek at night. instructions to be ready at 6:30 o'clock in the      T...

And the 19 was warm and I was on gard SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone,  The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone,  p. 28

Struck out tents early this morning and marched to Colliersville, a distance of seven miles from Lafayette and twenty-four from Memphis. As ...

I am on guard at the depot today. SOURCE: Seth James Wells,  The Siege of Vicksburg: From the Diary of Seth J. Wells, Including Weeks of P...

Orders are very strict. If caught outside of the pickets the fine is ten dollars. We get up at 4 o'clock in the morning and stack our ar...

We were called up at half past three this morning and were on the road inside an hour, and by sunrise were four miles on the way. We arrived...

We moved into the navy yard this morning. Had seven men detailed for guard. I was one of them. We were put on camp, or chain guard. I don...

I came off guard this morning. It rained very hard all the latter part of the night. Another boat load of troops came down last night, makin...