We are now on the “heaving sea and the bounding wave.” We were aroused yesterday morning at four o'clock, ordered to prepare breakfast a...

Reveille early this morning preparations for leaving Camp McClernand, Tents struck at a few minutes after 10 A. M. Baggage packed & load...

Throwing up breastworks all day, and we now are impatiently awaiting the enemy. Provisions are scarce; had a couple of hard crackers and a t...

Arrived at Bethel Church this morning about 9 A. M., and immediately set to work to get breakfast—such a breakfast: salt pork, black Rio cof...

This is Thanksgiving Day as ordered by the President of the United States. Spent the day in the woods on picket duty. My dinner was hard tac...

We are divided in divisions and companies. There is a thousand in each division and one hundred in each company. A sergeant commands each co...

Received two letters to-day, one from home and one from my brother Pincus, who went to Washington on his way to visit Morris and myself, as ...

Early in the day yesterday it was announced that the enemy were re-embarking on their gun-boats and transports, and before night the report ...

Hanover County, V a. ,           May 27, 1862. We have just finished a forced march of about forty miles, and have fallen back from near F...

Laid here all day, with two crackers for our rations, and these we got at night. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Sold...

After eating our scanty breakfast of hard-tack and coffee, the bugle is sounded and we saddle up and are on our way, taking the road towards...

Springfield Sept. 26th. I am in excellent health; am heavier than I ever was before; weigh a hundred and sixty eight lbs. of nice clear me...

Two miles from left bank of Black River, N. C., March 16, 1865. About 14 miles to-day. About a dozen swamps, as many showers, three hard rai...

New Market, S. C., March 2, 1865. A disagreeable, half drizzle, half sprinkle, all last night and to-day. Our brigade in advance and made ...

Here we enter upon the patriotic month of July, and where and how we are to spend it is yet beyond our conjecture, for we never know in this...

This is Camp Tiffin. Our regiment was favored to-day with a large mail, and nothing could have been more acceptable. Letters from home were ...

Johnston is getting lively again, and beginning to kick up a dust in the rear; so we have orders to move tonight, with three days' cooke...

Our regiment went into the rifle-pits again before daylight, at which time the din of musketry and cannonading from both sides had begun, an...

t was three o'clock this morning before we camped. A tiresome tramp we have had, and after halting, but a few minutes elapsed before we ...

A very heavy rain set in last night and continued until 9 o'clock this morning. The old Curlew looks as though she had been down cruisin...