Rienzi. Was another repetition of that a week ago only on a little larger scale. The horses were harnessed at 1 A. M. and we went out on the...

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...

I and five others were on picket on the bank of the Tennessee at Chickasaw. About nine o'clock A. M. another gun-boat paid us a visit. S...

The battalion moved to a nice camping place in an old field, one mile west of luka, where it remained about eleven days. SOURCE: Richard R...

After a ride of about thirty miles, crossing Big Bear Creek, the battalion went into camps near Iuka, in Tishamingo County, Mississippi, wit...

A little after dark seventy-five of the battalion went out to guard the railroad bridge which crossed Bear Creek about seven miles east of I...

Bear Creek empties into the Tennessee River eight miles north-east of Iuka. Chickasaw was a little village above, or on the east of Bear Cre...

This morning at two o'clock the bugle's blast is heard and soon the regiment is moving towards Iuka. At daylight we come to a halt o...

To-day the sullen roar of artillery is heard in the front, towards the Tennessee river. The troops are soon in motion. Sherman and staff are...

This morning companies H and A escort the Second Michigan Battery out to the camp of the Fifty-second Illinois Infantry. Rumor has it now th...

The bugle blows at early dawn, all are soon up and prepared to move; it is now raining in torrents. All the infantry are now in motion. Duri...

 This morning, the troops being all gone, we leave Iuka for Eastport, where we arrive about noon. The troops are now busy crossing the riv...

Gen. Sherman's command for the last week has been thronging Corinth, and moving on towards Iuka. Marching orders is now the cry in camp....

Last night about four hundred of Roddy's command ventured to the government corral, two miles from Corinth, capturing a company of the T...

This morning about two o'clock we come to a halt near Burnsville, Mississippi, and send a company forward to reconnoitre. During this ti...

Our brigade is in the advance this morning. Notwithstanding so many are foot sore we march briskly, and arriving at Iuka about noon we halt ...

Remaining in camp at Corinth without anything of note occurring until the evening of the 14th, we receive marching orders. The guerrilla Rod...

This morning the boys are soon up, eager to push forward. We eat our breakfast and are moving by six o'clock. The sun shines intensely h...

No. 163. Reports of Col. James L Gilbert, Twenty-seventh Iowa Infantry, commanding Second Brigade, of operations December 15-16, 1864...

Florence, Ala ., November 1, 1863. We struck tents on the 27th ult. at Iuka, Miss., and marched to Eastport, eight miles, that night. W...