Warm and rainy. I arose before roll call and took a walk down to the levee. Vegetation is starting rapidly. Peach trees are just in bloom, a...

Hot and sultry. I got up at reveille and went down to see how the cut prospered, and found the water rushing through, a perfect torrent. The...

Yesterday and today Buck and I were at work copying orders into the company order book. Today they discovered, in Logan's division, a gi...

Oxford. Reveille earlier than usual; orders to hold in readiness to march, such orders being anticipated. 7 A. M. the whole Division took up...

Played ball this forenoon and in the afternoon were detailed to extinguish a fire which destroyed the best part of town. The Post Office, on...

Oxford. Rumors of march. Logan's Division left to-day. Troops passing in the afternoon. Had standing gun drill. Ordered to have five rol...

For some time General Logan's division of McPherson's corps had been mining under the rebel Fort Hill, one of the most prominent wor...

Regiment under arms all afternoon. Logan exploded another mine. He blew up quite a large portion of their works and a number of rebels—seven...

On the morning of the 3rd when the rebels hung the flag of truce from their fort on the Jackson road, word soon passed along our whole line ...

The different corps had only taken such positions yesterday as they could in the dark, but today troops were constantly being brought forwar...

The regiment was formed at 4 this morning. In the afternoon we received marching orders. Our division has been moving up all day. Logan'...

No. 1. Reports of Brig. Gen. U. S. Grant, U. S. Army, commanding District of Southeast Missouri, and including operations against Thompson...

On picket guard today. Got my boots half soled. Gen. McPherson passed through here, and Logan's division is coming up and passing throug...

All quiet. We had brigade drill this forenoon. Our brigade consists of the 7th Missouri, 8th, 63rd and 18th Illinois, commanded by Col. Stev...

Our brigade was reviewed by Generals McPherson and Logan this afternoon. Gen. McKean's brigade was reviewed today. SOURCE: Seth James ...

There was grand review this afternoon. Generals McPhesron, Grant and Logan were the review officers. The weather is fine but the nights are ...

On the 20th we turn over our stock, saddles and bridles to the A. Q. M., 4th Division. We part from our mules this time without any regrets,...

UNITED STATES SENATE,           WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 29, 1884. Dear Brother: . . . You are probably right in your treatment of the Pres...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 24, 1884. Dear Brother: I think I have owed you a letter some time. I have nothing new. Days, weeks, and months glide by,...

St. Louis, June 7, 1884. Dear Brother: Now that the Convention at Chicago has nominated Blaine and Logan, I feel such a sense of relief that...