Clear and fine. Roll call at 5½ A. M. as usual-Breakfast at 6½ Squad drill &c. more activity will be observed this week in drilling than...

Cloudy drissling rain, very unpleasant underfoot—quite a No. not out at Roll Call—placed on Extra Duty in consequence. Our Co. placed on Pol...

Duties as usual performed. no Officers drill this morning as was given out last evening on Dress Parade Abut 10 O'clock to day one of th...

Reported capture of our Gun Boat proves to be false L. W. Williams detailed as Officer of the Guard to day Officers Drill this morning. Noth...

At four o'clock this morning "all was wrong." We were aroused from the most miserable attempt at sleep our boys ever dreamed o...

I have allowed a huge gap to occur in this Diary, for which I can offer a poor excuse. I have been sick with head-ache for about three weeks...

We heard heavy firing this morning, from the direction of the city, which we at first thought must be fighting going on there, but which we ...

After a lapse of several days, I again resume my diary. I was taken sick on the 1st inst., and have been unable to note the incidents as the...

PORT HUDSON. We arrived in port yesterday, having made the run without incident worthy of note. Colonel Brand has taken a list of our names,...

About sundown the shelling ceased, and nearly all of us returned to camp to endeavor to sleep, as we had been up all the night preceding unl...

The gun-boats and steamers are still below the bend, where they have been since Monday. They come up every day and throw shells at our batte...

AUGUSTA, December 4 , 1864 .           (Received 1 p.m.) Col. JOHN B. SALE,           Military Secretary, Richmond: The column is moving ...

Clear, and warm as summer. No fires. It is reported that Gen. Hood is still marching North, and is near Nashville. The following telegra...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA,           October 24, 1864. Capt. J. K. MITCHELL,           Flag Officer, Commanding James River Squ...

No. 2. Report of Brig. Gen. Joseph Finegan, C. S. Army, commanding District of East Florida. HDQRS. PROV. FORCES, DISTRICT EAST FLORIDA,...

March 18. This morning a message came in by flag of truce from Camp Finnegan, giving us 24 hours to send out the women and children to the...

Bright and beautiful. Still all quiet below, and reinforcements (details revoked) are not arriving—1000 per day. The Northern news makes...

This morning the transports and gun-boats all move down the river, leaving us isolated and alone, and in consequence we are soon on our way ...

This morning we proceed to the river, find some transports and two gun-boats up. We go into camp here for the night. SOURCE: Daniel Leib A...

Little Washington is on Tar River, and as one of the Yankee gunboats was trying to get in, one of our cannon gave them a ball, which caused ...