When we were called to breakfast at seven this morning we found we were steaming down the river and just entering the Sound, After a pleasan...

Yesterday it rained most all day, and the drills Col. Lee had inaugurated Monday have not amounted to much as yet. We played cards, read, wr...

Streets almost impassible for footmen. I called in a verry pretty residence surrounded with beautifull shrubery & had a social chat with...

The hospital boat Henry Von Phul came up from Vicksburg with sick soldiers, the Chaplain of the 24th Iowa Infty Rev Corkhill was along they ...

I wrote to John C. Haradon and copied letter to Sibley. Lieut. W. Kinney and I examined the report of hospital. Artillery and horse power ar...

I made out returns and wrote two letters. An awful snow storm came up just in the evening. Hospital walls caving in. Private Small, Co. D of...

Wrote a letter to father. Train went below. Norton and I went to Slabtown after Jos. Demarais, interpreter, to go to Georgetown. My skull wh...

I wrote to father, Sibley 2, Col. Cleary 1. Made out two returns weekly; 22 doz. eggs without express. Pay for shoulder straps. Doughnuts, b...

The boys say they are ready to march, but don't get any further orders. Letters from home. Have written to father wish I could see him. ...

This is a hard spot to get well in. Two poor fellows are near their end to all appearances, and it is trying to hear them rave about home an...

A woman and boy died in my division last night. The woman left a little child, eighteen months old, which is inconsolable. The father, a sol...

I find many very interesting cases here, some of which shall wait to see the finale before making note of them. What seems to me a strange...

One man, this morning, while I was taking the name of one who had just died, to write to his friends, told me that people throughout the who...

The ambulance and driver were placed at my disposal this P.M., and I visited Hospital No. 1. I find changes here, but mostly for the better....

We were expecting a gay time to-day, it being the first anniversary of the capture of New Berne. It was reported that besides a review we we...

Clear & Pleasant with frogs jumping about the ponds. This place, Hellena is almost impassible for persons on foot, this day at 10 Oc I s...

We was out this morning by request of our Col & had a tryal at target shooting with him the commissioned officers of us, pistol shooting...

I finished my letter to W. J. Hawn. The saw mill once more under way, and broke down. A threshing wind. Military school. SOURCE: Lewis C. ...

Stockading. I wrote to Ottman and Caroline. Received four crochet and one stilletto needle from John Goodenough. SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson, ...

I wrote off parts of two letters which he received from Adjt. Gen. Olin relative to defence. We had a sham battle. SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson...