It is quite warm and sultry. We have a man in our ward who is very homesick; he sits on his cot and cries like a child. He has been promise...

We remained out in the rifle pits till this evening, when we were relieved by the Fifteenth Iowa. John Esher was shot through the face this...

We received orders to be ready to march early in the morning for Memphis. The report in camp is that we are to go on down the Mississippi r...