Another inspection to-day. This time our guns and accoutrements were inspected, and much fault was found because we had not kept our guns fr...

About midnight, an officer of some sort rode into camp with some word that was the means of our being routed out by the "Long Roll,...

CAMP IN THE FIELD, NEAR CHEWALLA, TENN.,       June 10, 1862. Lieutenant-Governor B. Stanton, Columbus Ohio; SIR:   I am not sur...

Cairo. We had blankets given us this last week and new accoutrements throughout. If they would only change our guns now we would have nothi...

Falls City, Oct. 30, 1857. Dear Sir , — By great sacrifice we have raised, and send by Mr. Tidd, one hundred and fifty dollars. I trus...

Camp 3, Shady Spring. — Rain fell at intervals last night; falling in a “drizzling manner” this morning. Colonel Scammon says we have rifle...

At sunrise we were on the march for Camp Kearney. After we had marched about a mile Col Holcomb ordered me back to look after the convalesc...

The weather continues quite hot. All men in our brigade whose time is out by the 1st of October were mustered out today and they turned ove...

It is the same old thing over and over. The first thing we do when sick and wounded soldiers come to the hospital, is to pack all their clo...

We had inspection of arms this forenoon. Most of the boys in our company picked up rifles from the battlefield and got better rifles than t...