Left Sugar creek camp and got to Rogersville, four miles from the Tennessee river, and had just unslung our knapsacks, when orders came for ...

Knapsack drill to-day,—something new to me, though I am told it is to take place every Sunday morning when in camp. As we were not here yest...

Camp near Lovetsville, Va., Oct. 28th. We bade farewell to Pleasant Valley, and started for the land of "Dixie" quite unexpected...

We have had two practice-marches lately, one a long one, in Milton Hill direction, where we found plenty of dust, but were assured we were m...

We have had another march, this time about ten miles, through Dedham and towards Boston; the nearest we came to the city was West Roxbury. P...

We broke camp bright and early, about six o'clock, had our last bath at the pond, and breakfast at the old barracks, which had been our ...

Those of us who are on guard to-day are having a “soft time.” We have our orders to start at three to-morrow morning. The boys are busy pack...

We are all togged out with new blue clothes, haversacks and canteens. The haversack is a sack of black enamelled cloth with a flap to close ...

Monday morning. Our first night in Baltimore is over. We had roll-call, to see if we were all here, and then spread our blankets on the grou...

clear but very windey and cool And ther was a wright smart stir in camps today for we had orders to pack our knapsacks and to be ready to ma...

This morning at seven A. M., we leave our old camp at Corinth, with all our camp and garrison equipage. The Seventh, as they move through Co...

YORKTOWN. On the 27th of April we broke camp at Getty's station, arriving here about dark, and marched up the Williamsburg road about ...

Skirmishing still going on. In the evening we move our camp two miles forward, crossing the Mississippi line. We move with one hundred cartr...

December 31, 1862. I examine from sixty to eighty men every morning and make prescriptions for those who need them. Doing this and visi...

On picket four miles south of Marietta, October 8th. We occupy the old Johnny skirmish pits. It was outrageously cold last night. I ele...

ORDERS TO LEAVE. Orders have been issued to break camp and go aboard the transports tomorrow morning. The boys are now breaking the fro...

May 14, 1864. Reveille at 3 a. m. and an order has just come to leave all our knapsacks and move at 7 a. m. Great hospital preparations...

Bird's Point, Mo. , January 20, 1862. It goes confounded good once more to stand on boards, and be able to sit down without wet com...

Camp Norfolk, September 12, 1861. Agreeable to our very short notice we packed our knapsacks, put three days rations in our haversacks,...

Cairo. I am converted to the belief that Cairo is not such a bad place after all. The record shows that less deaths have occurred here in s...