Orderly Holmes is very sick. His discharge is under his pillow (or knapsack). He lies in a room next to this and I can hear him talk, giving...

Working parties return at daylight at which time the ball opens again The Enemy were reinforcing last night from Mobile, a little bolder ...

CAMP ON THE RAPIDAN,           MAY 25TH, 1863. MY PRECIOUS WIFE: I have written to you by every opportunity I have had since I left home, a...

Moscow. To-day, ordered to pack our knapsacks, mark them preparatory to turning them over, and take them to be stored until we were to be pe...

Crab Orchard, Ky.       Again has the note of preparation sounded in our camp, and all hands are busy getting ready for another campaign. In...

London, Ky.       We broke camp last Thursday morning, the tenth of September, bound for Cumberland Gap, ninety miles distant. The first day...

Knoxville, Tenn.       We left the Gap on the twenty-first and made twenty miles, climbing up one side of a mountain two or three miles, the...

Bright and clear, warm and pleasant. How well do I remember two short years ago today when we took a sleigh ride and made a regular family v...

Corinth. I walked up to the Battery, the farthest I had walked since my lameness. Saw the boys off; they left their tents standing, their kn...

Crab Orchard, Ky. We arrived at 10 a. m., making ten miles from Lancaster this morning. Crab Orchard is a lovely town of about one thousand ...

PLYMOUTH. Sunday, and another move at last. We left the barracks about seven o'clock this morning, marched through the town and aboard...

This afternoon I rode by a mountain path to a log cabin in which a half dozen wounded Tennesseeans are lying. One poor fellow had his leg am...

Marched through Charlestown, and thence to Berryville. On this occasion, something happened that wants mentioning. When leaving Poolesville,...

We arrived at the Tallahatchie Bottoms about noon. Bissell's engineer regiment is encamped here. It has just finished the railroad bridg...

Warm and raining. We were astir early, cooked our breakfasts, filled our haversacks with meat and what little bread we had, and fell in abou...

Orders came in the afternoon to get ready to march the coming day. New knapsacks were issued, and rations kept ready for three days. Great t...

We struck tents early, packed our effects as snugly as possible, and as on the preceding morning, shouldered our knaps. It rained during our...

Rienzi.   Was begun with another of the "strategic moves". We were told to hitch up with the greatest speed—all our baggage, knaps...

Once more we are on the wing. Yesterday morning we were ordered to be ready to march when called on. Of course, the men do not expect to sta...

CAMP MILLINGTON, BALTIMORE. From the time of our home-coming and the royal welcome given us by the 150th, I have only made notes which I wil...