Six companies of the Seventh, and six companies of the Fiftieth Illinois Infantry, under the command of Colonel Rowett, leave Rome on a scou...

After a very cold night spent in sleeplessness, I arose, determined to have something better to eat than our daily ration of coarse meal and...

Went out this morning for small hog, but couldn't find aged colored individual, so had to go back to camp porkless and in bad humor. Hav...

March 14, Evening. A curious incident occurred this morning which gave me a full hundred (from both regiments) sick and wounded to examine...

Evening. About six, the Burnside came down the river with horses, hogs, chickens and prisoners. They took Col. Bryant, just as he returned...

March 17. We are fairly at work at our legitimate business. The John Adams brought down, last evening, thirty contrabands, ten horses, and...

This morning the regiment moves down the river to a point opposite Hamburg Landing, where the three companies are ordered to report with the...

We returned to camps a little after dark at the same place we started from the morning before. It was a cold, rainy day. We learned that q...

HEADQUARTERS, Knoxville, November 26 , 1861 . Hon. J.P. BENJAMIN,           Secretary of War: SIR: I have the honor to report that I arri...

COLUMBIA, KY., November 29 , 1861 .           (Received November 30, 1861.) General GEORGE H. THOMAS: I received a dispatch before day th...

HEADQUARTERS CAMP, ALCORN,           Hopkinsville, Ky., October 29, 1861. Col. W. W. MACKALL,           Assistant Adjutant-General, &c....

Clear and warm. The local troops did not march until this morning, and no one supposes Richmond is seriously menaced by Grant. I believe t...

The troops still continue foraging, and in consequence the country has well nigh become impoverished, almost everything in the line of subsi...

This morning Companies H and I, under the command of Captain Johnson, are sent on a foraging expedition, taking with them the Division train...

To-day some of the Seventh boys return from a foraging expedition in West Tennessee, bringing in some hogs, sheep, chickens and geese, makin...

Rained all night, but clear most of the day. There are rumors of Burnside landing troops on the Peninsula; also of preparations for moveme...

AN EXCURSION.  Companies C and B, together with Capt. Schenck's New York battery company as infantry, returned yesterday afternoon fro...

Eden Ferry, Ogeechee river,  December 6, 1864.  We lay in camp until 1 p. m. when we suddenly pulled out and made this point, and had works ...

MR. BOGEY.  This place is what is called a turpentine plantation, where they get the pitch from which turpentine is distilled. The owner, Mr...

I belong to the Charlotte Grays, Company C, First North Carolina Regiment. We left home for Raleigh. Our company is commanded by Capt. Egbe...