Left Richmond yesterday about 6:30 o'clock a. m. Found a number of the Texas Brigade and a few of my regiment on the cars and soon becam...

Bright and clear, warm and pleasant. How well do I remember two short years ago today when we took a sleigh ride and made a regular family v...

Corinth. Orders were given to Battery to cook three days' rations in their haversacks and three days' in the wagons, all ready to ma...

PLYMOUTH. Sunday, and another move at last. We left the barracks about seven o'clock this morning, marched through the town and aboard...

HAM FAT. Freedom of the town for to-day, and all over town we went; had a dug-out race, and about all who were in it got a ducking. Our pa...

. . . comfort ably cool Routine of Duties as usual. Capt. Parke Officer of the day at camp Cairo Every thing quiet in camp Weather very plea...

Warm and raining. We were astir early, cooked our breakfasts, filled our haversacks with meat and what little bread we had, and fell in abou...

Marching orders, sure enough. We drew three days' rations this morning, with orders to have two cooked and in our haversacks, ready to m...

Reveille sounded this morning a little after 2 o'clock. We filled our haversacks, got our breakfasts, and by daylight were ready for the...

Our camp yesterday was enlivened by the joyful news that we had orders to take the cars for some unknown destination, and it is generally be...

We were up and at it at the usual time this morning, on the home tramp, which kept up the spirits of many. About ten o'clock we came in ...

After some trouble we managed to get to bed last night about eleven o'clock; but for a long time after that the mules kept us awake; per...

Rained all day, came within four miles of Charlotte. A very poor country. I and Reuben Slaughter went out and staid all night with Mrs. Hood...

We have just received orders to be ready to march at a minute's notice, with two days' rations in our haversacks. The quiet of repos...

Two letters to-day, and two papers, all from home. Seems as if I had been there for a visit. I wonder if my letters give them as much pleasu...

Sunday morning. Nothing happened during the night. We bought a good breakfast of a family who make a business of feeding the soldiers that c...

We broke camp bright and early, about six o'clock, had our last bath at the pond, and breakfast at the old barracks, which had been our ...

We are all togged out with new blue clothes, haversacks and canteens. The haversack is a sack of black enamelled cloth with a flap to close ...

Still in Hudson. Was routed out twice last night, for no particular reason as far as I can discover, unless it was to make a miserable night...

Great excitement in camp; order was received to get ready for a forward movement; ammunition packed; haversacks and canteens were issued. ...