About camp and hospital yesterday, getting well every minute. Except that I am skin poor and tire out easily, I am well. My little looking-g...

Near Oxford. Pleasant and sunny. Health never better. Lost my needle book, very sorry. Received three days' mail; had two papers and a l...

Near Oxford.  Warm and pleasant.  Health excellent. Dr. Miller returned  from Wisconsin in the  afternoon, much to the satisfaction of all. ...

Lumpkin's Mill.   Christmas! Christmas! resounded through the camp this morning; everyone turning the gay reminiscence of the past in th...

Captain Bostwick came to see me to-day. Two men died last night, one in the hospital and the other in his tent. I don't feel as well to-...

Think I am really better to-day. If I keep on I'll soon be out of this and with the boys again. But they all come in to see the sick as ...

I have been very sick. This is the first time I have felt able to make a mark with a pencil. I was taken in the night, after the day I thoug...

Getting better fast, but can't write much yet. SOURCE:  Lawrence Van Alstyne,  Diary of an Enlisted Man , p. 89

Don't feel quite so smart as I did. This getting well is slow business. SOURCE:  Lawrence Van Alstyne,  Diary of an Enlisted Man , p. ...

Not feeling so good these last few days. SOURCE:  Lawrence Van Alstyne,  Diary of an Enlisted Man , p. 90

Too much excitement yesterday and I feel like two weeks ago. The doctor says I will have these setbacks though and it is only a part of the ...

Have been downstairs. My legs just made out to get me there and back. Will they ever get strong again? But I am getting there, slow but sure...

Another fine day, and another trip downstairs. My legs behaved better this time. Am not near so tired. Now that I can write without getting ...

At 12. last night the Jonnies made a charge out of their forts on the skirmish line, draw it in on the left where the 7th Vermont was statio...

Oxford. Nothing new. Laid in camp. Many rumors afloat of Richmond taken, Bragg defeated, etc. Health improving. SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd Jones...

Oxford. Warm and pleasant. Health improving. Diarrhea checked by abstaining from all eatables except hard crackers. All teams sent foraging....

To be noted. Our company was declared the  cleanest  company! Consequently no guard for us to-morrow. Notwithstanding our  camp  is quite ...

Yesterday the chaplain's tent for public worship came and this morning we were all gathered there and the chaplain was praying, when sna...

Two doctors came to take the place of Dr. Andrus and they have had plenty to do. For several days the weather has been hot, which opens the ...

Cold day. Ice formed on puddles last night. I am staying in my tent, keeping as warm as I can. I begin to feel I am going to give out. I hav...