After some trouble we managed to get to bed last night about eleven o'clock; but for a long time after that the mules kept us awake; per...

I could eat a tallow candle if I had a good one. But I have accepted an invitation to dine with the Trenholms—in my dreams! SOURCE: South ...

Wish I had been taught to cook instead of how to play on the piano. A practical knowledge of the preparation of food products would stand me...

Thank goodness! I'm not hungry tonight, and for a very good reason: we dined with the Secretary of the Treasury and his family, the Tren...

No one has come to me since day before yesterday. Watched and moved until most night of yesterday but could see or hear no one. Afraid I ha...

The sixth day of freedom, and a hungry one. Still where I wrote last night, and watching the house. A woman goes out and in but cannot tell...

A prisoner of war nearly a year have stood and went through the very worst kind of treatment. Am getting ravenously hungry, but they won...

Moved at daylight. Soon came upon rebel pickets and fired. Skirmishing. Dismounted 2 and 7 and went forward. One man wounded soon. Mich. Ba...

All the mess slowly but none the less surely succumbing to the diseases incident here. We are not what you may call hungry. I have actually...

A steady rain for twenty-four hours, and have not been dry during the time, however it is a warm rain and get along very well. We are still...

Pleasant weather and favorable for prisoners. At about nine in the morning the work of hunting for vermin commences, and all over camp sit ...

“To be, or not to be; that's the question.” Whether ’tis nobler in the Confederacy to suffer the pangs of unappeasable hunger and never...

On dit the Yankees have gone back to Baton Rouge, hearing we had sixty thousand men coming down after them. I believe I am positively disap...