Toward night we received marching orders and started for Abbyville at dark. We heard that there was great excitement at Jackson, as an attac...

Jesse Walker and I went out foraging and succeeded in capturing a shoat. The nigs were left very destitute and there will be a great deal of...

JACKSON, TENN.,  Feb.  28th, 1862. To Governor T. O. MOORE, New Orleans: Will accept all good, equipped troops under Act 21st August, that...

This morning we move forward at 9 o'clock, and march briskly all day. By the road-side many a weary, foot-sore soldier falls. We are now...

Jackson, Tenn., June 26, 1863. Such splendid weather — nice, fresh breezes ruffling the leaves on the trees all the day long—and plenty...

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Lagrange, Tenn., March 15, 1863. I have just returned from a walk to and inspection of the cemetery belo...

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Jackson, Tenn., March 9, 1863. We leave here again in the morning for the Grange. Ordered to report ther...

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Jackson, Tenn., March 5, 1863. You certainly should not complain of my neglect, in writing no more than ...

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Jackson, Tenn., February 25, 1863. I guess it's full two weeks since I wrote you last, excepting a h...

January 4, 1863. There I quit, for we received orders to get ready at once to march to Jackson, Tenn. The colonel ordered me to take ch...

Corinth, Mississippi, August 19th, 1862. Dear Sister: Julia and the children left here on Saturday last for St. Louis where they ...

ST. LOUIS, March 13. – A special to the Democrat from Cairo, March 11th, says a gentleman who left Memphis on Saturday, arrived here this ...