Gunboats are said to be going up the river every day. I wonder what's up. SOURCE:  Lawrence Van Alstyne,  Diary of an Enlisted Man , p...

Revelie at 2.45, breakfast at 3.30 Genl call at 5. Brigade forms on the Gulf beach at 6 column of the 3d Div moves out at 8.39; in a quandar...

Working parties return at daylight at which time the ball opens again The Enemy were reinforcing last night from Mobile, a little bolder ...

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...

Returned to Petersburg on the 18th, after a fruitless expedition. As we ran afoul of the Yankee gun-boats, we had to retire without being ab...

Much more pleasant today. All the Gunboats & Monitors move out early this morning, going up the Bay toward Mobile, A little before 9. A....

A. M. Inspection & Reading Articles of War to the company P. M. reading Fabiola, N. O. papers of 10th no news, this morning all the Gunb...

We started at sunrise as on the preceding morning. The wind blew quite strong, making it difficult for some of the smaller boats to keep up....

Warm and rainy. More boats went down last night, one war boat and several transports. We heard heavy firing this morning, supposed to be the...

The first news that greeted us this morning was marching orders. After breakfast we drew four days' rations, two of them cooked, put the...

Entered on board the steamer ''Lady Franklin," detailed for guard down the Ohio river and around up the Cumberland river, with ...

7 Oc Amandus Mullen & I took the cars for St. Louis arived 8 we then went to the arsenal & to[ok] a view of all the preparations the...

Boat landed at 12. O clock last night at Scippers landing to unload freight was up saw several hundred bales of cotton guarded by a gunboat....

Had a good run during the night A. M. Passed Natchez but did not get to see any of the city except "Natchez under the hill." boat ...

Weather still very cold, marching orders have been issued and at 10 O'clock we leave this place for a different locality. The 10th &...

No. 5. Report of Col. Napoleon B. Buford, Twenty-seventh Illinois Infantry. HDQRS. TWENTY-SEVENTH REG'T ILL. VOLS.,           Cairo, N...

A gun-boat passed up by Eastport, going perhaps one mile and a half above, then turning, went back down the river without firing a gun. I, w...

Two gun-boats and two transports came up to Chickasaw and landed about one hundred and twenty cavalry and three regiments of infantry about ...

Raining; rained all night. My health improving, but prudence requires me to still keep within the house. The reports of terrific fighting ...

At about four o'clock this afternoon we met two of our gunboats near Napoleon, Mississippi, who told us they had just dislodged a Rebel ...