I was detailed on fatigue this morning. The detail from our regiment worked on the big break in the levee. We did a good day's work, and...

Moscow. Mail arrived to-day. Received two letters; weather rather cold. Went foraging in the morning; returned with fresh pork, beans, corn ...

Moscow. Laid in tent all day. Mail arrived in the afternoon. Received two very welcome letters from home and Thomas L. SOURCE: Jenkin Lloy...

I have just received a letter from a lady friend of mine aye, and of the soldiers, too, in which she says she "cannot but think of the ...

I am disappointed to-night, and feel sadly. I had almost no letters from home lately. None yesterday, to-day none. To-morrow I hope I shall ...

To-day I have received the expected letter; but it relieves no part of my sadness. My dear child at home is no better. I may never meet her ...

Did ever husband and father need the comforting aid of the help-meets of home as I need them this evening? See my table. Six  full  foolscap...

Capt Fee & Orderly Spooner spent the day in the Citty we had a general cleaning up in the barracks, afternoon I took 3 of the boys &...

Received letter from Rev. Loomis, Lewisburg, Penn., and one from Brother Moses Paxson, Newton, Penn. SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson,  Diary of Le...

WEST POINT, N.Y., Dec. 6, 1837. Dear Brother: In compliance with your request I sent you a paper shortly after the reception of your letter,...

We have had a rain and the hard ground made the softest kind of mud. It sticks to our feet and clothes, and everybody is cross and crabbed. ...

Davis Mills. Heard from home. Received two letters, from John and Thomas, which eased my anxiety. Listened to the first sermon [in camp]. ...

Cincinnati, Ohio. We arrived here at 9:30 this morning. My day's work is, at last, completed, at 9 p. m. This has been a busy day. In fa...

Camp Parks, Ky. I received a letter from a friend in Michigan last evening, saying: "If you were in Michigan, or could see the situatio...

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 ...

Traveled all night Saturday night, having left Minden at dark, and all day Sunday; reached Vianna about 10 o'clock Sunday morning; the r...

Vicksburg is ours; Johnson defeated and his forces scattered; our work in Mississippi is performed, and we have taken up the line of march f...

Haines Bluff, Miss.   We arrived at our old camp yesterday—twenty days from the time we left it—the toughest twenty days of our experience. ...

Another letter from my poor, suffering wife. As I think of her sorrows, cares and perplexities, I cannot force back the thought that will un...

Baker and I were out prospecting; caught one muskrat; set two traps. I sent a letter and $2 for some books at St. Paul. SOURCE: Lewis C. P...