La Grange, Tenn. Awoke to hear the rain pattering briskly on the Sibley [tent] above me. We were called out, and with expectations to march,...

Moscow. Awoke before daylight with orders       Started to prepare to march. All was ready by 6:30 A. M. at about 7:30, fell in rear of the ...

Holly Springs, Miss. The bugle's notes awoke me in the same position as that I fell asleep in three hours before. Prepared for march and...

I had the pleasure of seeing a number of friends from Iowa that came in from Holly Springs for supplies in Hamilton & Quimbys divisions ...

The news came in this morning that Holly Springs was entered at daylight and captured. The Rebels took over two hundred thousand dollars and...

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...

Warm and rainy this morning. We struck out tents, fell in about daylight and marched through to Holly Springs, where we saw the effects of t...

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...

Quite sore from chopping and rolling cotton. Our Colonel, Amos Norton, is Commander of the Post, and Rats is provost-marshal, Col. Smith com...

We struck tents early, packed our effects as snugly as possible, and as on the preceding morning, shouldered our knaps. It rained during our...

I was on guard in front of the Provost-marshall's office today. The troop began to move toward Holly Springs long before day light. Whil...

Broke camp today. Left for Oxford on our retreat to where, I don't know, as the rebel General Van Dorn, through the treachery of Colonel...

LUMPKINS MILLS, MISS. Passed the day in camp as Ross's division were passing on their way to Holly Springs. Weather beautiful. It made...

Started on our march to Memphis. Quimby's [ sic ] division are to guard a train of 600 empty wagons. The day's march was a terrible ...

Left Moscow for Holly Springs, Mississippi, at nine o'clock, marched twenty miles, encamped in the woods, slept soundly until awakened b...

Marched at 8 o'clock in the morning. General Grant passed us at about 10 o'clock; arrived at Holly Springs at about 11 o'clock; ...

 Bright and pleasant. The only news to-day was a dispatch from Gen. Hood, stating that the enemy had left Holly Springs, Miss., for the Mi...

MEMPHIS, October 22 , 1862 . Miss P. A. FRASER, Memphis: DEAR LADY: Your petition is received. I will allow fifteen days for the par...

Lagrange, Tenn., July 1, 1863. Everything moves quietly here. No more alarms or anything else to "bust" the confounded monoto...

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Lagrange, Tenn., April 24, '63. We have just returned from the hardest and yet by far the most pleas...