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,...

Gloomy day—Raining all day without any intermission. Mail in this P. M. see no Northern papers and hear no news SOURCE: “Diary of John S. ...

Rienzi, Miss.   We went out in the morning to drill on the field but did not see much into the wild scampering way. I wrote to Sp[ring] Gr[e...

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...

Haines Bluff, Miss.   We get no news from the outside world. Not even the New York Herald or Detroit Free Press, those blatant organs of sec...

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...

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,  ...

We encamped in a corn field last night, completely exhausted; in the middle of the night it commenced to rain but I slept through it until I...

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 ...

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...

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...

This morning the command moves by day-light. The Seventh is ordered to bring the extreme rear from the Chattahoochee to where Companies H an...

Engle received a letter from his father today, who told him they had seen my parents, and I would hear from them soon. This is the first tim...

Received two letters to-day, one from home and one from my brother Pincus, who went to Washington on his way to visit Morris and myself, as ...

Yesterday my brother-in-law, Jack Smith, came in as a recruit, and, to my great disappointment, brought me no letters. I am certainly the mo...