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...

Struck out tents early this morning and marched to Colliersville, a distance of seven miles from Lafayette and twenty-four from Memphis. As ...

Yesterday evening there were heavy clouds and a good deal of lightning in the North; after supper laid down on the deck and slept very comfo...

On picket guard today. Got my boots half soled. Gen. McPherson passed through here, and Logan's division is coming up and passing throug...

Christmas. I came off guard duty this morning. We drew half rations for four days and part of that was cornmeal. Our coffee is rye and in sm...

A foraging party went out this morning. One of our boys killed five hogs and thirteen chickens, and found two government wagons and two barr...

Rained a good deal last night. We were up early. Our regiment was rear guard to the wagon train today. It cleared off early and was quite co...

We had a great time to-day, having sent out this morning some six thousand troops, with about one hundred wagons, on a foraging expedition. ...

This morning, at seven o'clock, our tents were struck, and, with General McClellan and staff in advance, we moved to Middle Fork bridge....

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....