This is Thanksgiving Day as ordered by the President of the United States. Spent the day in the woods on picket duty. My dinner was hard tac...

COLUMBUS, KENTUCKY.   Last Tuesday we received marching orders from Paducah. Wednesday morning about 4 o'clock Co. A with some fifty sic...

HDQRS. 17TH ARMY CORPS, DEPT. OF THE TENNESSEE,           Near Vicksburg, Miss, June 18, 1863. Major-General GRANT, Comdg. Dept. of the Ten...

December 3, 1862. We received marching orders at Lagrange, Tenn., at 9 o'clock p. m. on the 27th, and moved at 6 a. m. on the 28th,...

Reported the Evensville which was carrying our mail down river was captured and burned and Quinby's division crossing at Clarendon. ...

We had an all day rain. I was relieved from guard at 9 o'clock a. m. We see very little of our chaplain at this camp, for he is seldom ...

We reached our camp this forenoon in a rain which continued all day. General Quimby's division just went into camp here, from up the ri...

WASHINGTON, March 5. Lieut. Col. Emery, of the 6 th cavalry, and Cols. [Quinby] and Patrick, of N. Y. have been nominated for Brigadier Ge...