SMITHVILLE, N.C., April 4, 1845. My Dear  Brother : I am going to return to Charleston to-night by sea, and expect to be turned wrong side...

JUST at night, as I had finished the above, the Laurel Hill, the boat  that  brought us from quarantine to Chalmette, tied up in front of ca...

Am very weak yet. A little tires me out. A letter from Herman just a month old. Coon died last night, but we none of us knew it till we saw ...

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. ...

HEADQUARTERS, MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI IN THE FIELD. ROME, GA. October 31 1864 (Monday morning) I have this moment (10½ A.M.) ar...

Pleasant day although cool morning, drill A. M. at 2. P. M. orders to move tomorrow with 3 days cooked rations. Go over to Commissary for bo...

Rested tolerably last night, At 8. A M. The batteries open on the Forts & keep up a vigorous shelling for 3 hours. P. M. the felled timb...

Near Oxford. All quiet. Foraging party started out at 6 A. M. Gone all day. They report a poor country, with much more loyalty apparently th...

Near Oxford. It rained nearly all day, making it very muddy, hard for our horses. No mail for two days. SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd Jones,  An Ar...

Knoxville, Tenn.   We are shut out from all intercourse with the rest of the world. Even Dame Rumor has retired behind the scenes, exhausted...

For the last two days we have had no drill out of doors, and very little guard. It has rained steadily. The "Dudley Buck" arrived ...

It has cleared up and is quite cold. We sent off a large mail this morning. Last night we came very near having our barracks destroyed. The ...

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...

I received a letter from my daughter with information that my son Amandus is much better, the fever broke & he is in a fair way to recov...

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...

We drilled a short time after our scirmish drill & was on dress perade I received a letter from Emma with the good noose that Amandus is...

I wrote off six copies of the work of board of survey. Kunze, of Company H of Eighth Minnesota, was frozen very badly. Was placed in the hos...

The Arago did call for our mail and the body of Lieutenant Sterling was put on board to go to his family in Poughkeepsie. We gave the old sh...

Two more men died last night, but not from Company B. We sent off another mail to-day. I wish we might get some letters. We ought to have a ...

A. M. Go to Commissary at Ft. Morgan to buy provision for Mess. get to ride most of way to & from. Ship load of troops at the pier near ...