The air is purified by rain during the night. At first dawn we go to the stream for a bath. Knowing the difficulty to keep clear of lice and...

Water in the stream is very foul from so many using, and the refuse thrown in it from Rebel cook houses and camps that floats down, and drai...

For the last month nothing but a dull monotony has reigned in camp, but things are now becoming more lively. The paymaster has made his appe...

This is Camp Tiffin. Our regiment was favored to-day with a large mail, and nothing could have been more acceptable. Letters from home were ...

A number of our boys went a few miles, blackberrying, and picked quite a quantity to bring home, when we heard the sound of horses' hoof...

June 13, 1864. The rain continued until 5 p. m. Everything and everybody thoroughly soaked. Our division moved about one-half mile to t...

Havn't time to write much; busy eating. Mouth getting better, cords in my legs loosening up. Battese has not gone; was here to day and ...

I am sick; just able to drag around. My teeth are loose, mouth sores, with gums grown down in some places lower than the teeth and bloody, ...

Had a funny dream last night. Thought the rebels were so hard up for mules that they hitched up a couple of grayback lice to draw in the br...

Rainy morning. We are guarded by an Alabama regiment, who are about to leave for the front. Georgia militia to take their places. Making pr...

Ran very slow through the night, and are in the vicininy of Macon, Ga. Will reach our prison to-night. Received a pone of corn bread apiece...

Pemerton Building , Richmond, Va. — We are confined on the third floor of the building, which is a large tobacco warehouse. Was removed fro...

Ninety-two squads of prisoners confined on less than six acres of ground — one hundred in a squad, making nine thousand and two hundred alt...

Rumors of exchange to be effected soon. Rebels say we will all be exchanged before many days. It cannot be possible our government will all...

Belle Island , Richmond, Va. — I was captured near Rogersville, East Tennessee, on the 6th of this month, while acting as Brigade Quarter-...

Cloudy, with a bracing air; have thrown up a line of rifle pits along our front. The army is quiet to-day; very little cannonading heard. D...

Baton Rouge . Well! Day before yesterday, I almost vowed I would not return, and last evening I reached here. Verily, consistency, thou ar...

I was relieved from patrol this morning. Thus far we have not succeeded in locating any of the reported spies. This patrol duty is quite ha...

Headquarters Second Brigade, Second Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, “young's Point,” Before Vicksburg , Feb. 4, 1863. My Dear M...

The snow continued today with a high wind. I loaned Lieutenant Spencer $15.00. 1 I went to the city today to purchase some supplies, spend...