I sent letter to pupils at Spring Mills, Locke's Mills. Two messengers left on the mules, Billy and Dixie. SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson,  D...

I finished a letter to my sister Caroline. A man fell through the scaffolding. Doughnuts by baker, 15. SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson,  Diary of ...

I worked in office as usual. Gave two letters to the P. M. SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson,  Diary of Lewis C. Paxson: Stockton, N.J., 1862-1865 ,...

Mail arrived, 8 for me. Snowy. S. V. Carr gone to Breckenridge. Sent a letter and Indian scalp to father. SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson,  Diary ...

Dr. Andrus is going to-day. He says I ought not to think of leaving here yet. But he does not forbid it, so if I get a chance I shall try it...

Not very well today. drill the co part of the time this P. M. Recd mail, a letter from Mattie SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G,...

Rienzi.   Went through the usual routine of drill and camp life. Received my first mail since my arrival, consisting of two letters and a [M...

A letter from home—the first since April 25th, and written by my beloved wife. On receiving it I sought my tent with eager haste and perused...

After some trouble we managed to get to bed last night about eleven o'clock; but for a long time after that the mules kept us awake; per...

CAMP STEVENSON. Sunday. A splendid day; but what a miserable-looking set of boys we are!—stiff, lame, and dirty, and hungry for more beans...

So very blustery and cold that we could not go to Georgetown. Stamps, 5c. I sent letter to sister Letitia West. SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson,  ...

Went into quarters in the navy yard at Memphis. Quarters very good. Men under shelter. The machine shop is used as barracks for the regiment...

Before daylight. We have been turned out, for some purpose, and are standing in line with our guns and accoutrements on. Later. Are back i...

Back in Camp Millington, and the rest of the day is ours. A letter from Miss Hull, in answer to one written her mother. It was full of home ...

A letter from home! A letter from home! It reached me by hand through the department—is most reassuring and at the same time most delightful...

Our shanties are completed, and we moved in yesterday. They are warm and dry, and cannot but affect the health of the men favorably. I recei...

Two letters to-day, and two papers, all from home. Seems as if I had been there for a visit. I wonder if my letters give them as much pleasu...

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...

December 29th, 1862. As I was sitting by my cosy fire last evening—for we have evenings here, long, dreary ones—thinking of past events an...

Washing day. All who are not on duty were let out to go in the stream below the mill and wash. We took off our clothes and rubbed and scrubb...