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...

Moscow. I felt rather unwell, having had a lusty old shake with the ague. In the night went to the doctor, had four pills and an excuse from...

Moscow. Cold and chilly. Troubled with diarrhea; felt rather bad. SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd Jones,  An Artilleryman's Diary , p. 14

Moscow. Our boys returned in the afternoon having been out to Collierville, eighteen miles distant, burned a bridge, came upon a party of re...

I have just received a letter from a lady friend of mine aye, and of the soldiers, too, in which she says she "cannot but think of the ...

A weak and disagreeable state of body since last date has waived my practice of noting; but everything has been as now—"hell upon earth...

Prostrated with severe pains, chills and fever which lasted most of the night. Getting a small piece of beef and rice in lieu of meal we hav...

News from Atlanta conflicting; papers, so far as we know, admit the repulse of Hood, then claim a victory. Later statements rather choke vic...

I was sick. Adjutant excused me from guard mount. I cleaned my gun. Studied music lesson, etc. SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson,  Diary of Lewis C....

Feel some better and did my office business. Made out a new roster for February. Very blustery, snowy, a howling, blustering storm. SOURCE...

On the third of September we stopped at Camp Advance, near Chain Bridge, on our way to Richmond. That was nearly ten weeks ago. We are now a...

It was with a bounding heart, brimful of gratitude to God, that I stepped on board the Dakota and bade farewell to Haines Bluff on the secon...

Rienzi. To-day I felt but a little better, got some milk and corn bread. With the secesh [women] had an encounter before I left. SOURCE: J...

Have sent home my diary and am beginning another. I must be more brief, for the great mass just sent off covers but little ground and will t...

Raining; rained all night. My health improving, but prudence requires me to still keep within the house. The reports of terrific fighting ...

Not very well today. drill the co part of the time this P. M. Recd mail, a letter from Mattie SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G,...

morning clear & nice Health of camp improving only 3 of our Comp. now in the Hospital. Capt. Parke making arrangements for going home—ha...