Albert, the cook, was swindled in the purchase of a fowl for our New Year's dinner; he supposed he was getting a young and tender turkey...

General Mitchell has issued an immense number of orders, and of course holds the commandants of regiments responsible for their execution. I...

We hear of the Colonel occasionally. He is still at Louisville, running his train on the broad gauge. His regiment, he says, has been maneuv...

General Mitchell gave the officers a very interesting lecture this evening. He is indefatigable. The whole division has become a school. H...

The General summoned the officers of his division about him and went through the form of sending out advanced guard, posting picket, grand g...

The officers dress better, as a rule, than in West Virginia. The only man who has not, in this regard, changed for the better, is the Major....

Every day we have the roar of artillery, the rattle of musketry, the prancing of impatient steeds, the marching and countermarching of batta...

People who live in houses would hardly believe one can sleep comfortably with his nose separated from the coldest winter wind by simply a th...

General Dumont called. He is to-day commandant of the camp. The General is an eccentric genius, and has an inexhaustible fund of good storie...

We are not studying so much as we  were . The General's grasp has relaxed, and he does not hold us with a tight reign and stiff bit any ...

A body of cavalry got in our rear last night and attempted to destroy the Nolan creek bridge; but it was driven off by the guard, after a sh...

The Colonel returned at noon. I was among the first to visit him. He greeted me very cordially, and called God to witness that he had never ...

Had dress parade this evening, at which the Colonel officiated, it being his first appearance since his return. Ascertaining that he had n...

The Third is encamped five miles south of Louisville, on the Seventh-street plank road. As we marched through the city my attention was di...

Sunday has just slipped away. Parson Strong attempted to get an audience; but a corporal's guard, for numbers, were all who desired to b...

Rode to Louisville this afternoon; in the evening attended the theatre, and saw the notorious Adah Isaacs Menken Heenan. The house was packe...

Moved three miles nearer Louisville and encamped in a grove. Have had much difficulty in keeping the men in camp; and this evening, to preve...

In camp near Elizabethtown. The road over which we marched was excellent; but owing to detention at Salt river, where the troops and trains ...

Have been attached to the Seventeenth Brigade, and assigned to the Third Division; the latter commanded by General O. M. Mitchell. The Gener...

Jake Smith, the driver of the head-quarters wagon, on his arrival in Elizabethtown went to the hotel, and in an imperious way ordered dinner...