Spend most of day writing, at 12. m. a salute of 200 guns fired by order of Genl Canby in honor of the surrender of Genls Lee to Grant &...

Lumpkin's Mill.   Christmas! Christmas! resounded through the camp this morning; everyone turning the gay reminiscence of the past in th...

Near Memphis, Tenn.   Slept out-doors. Awoke at 5 A. M. A beautiful morning. Byhalia, unlike Tallaloosa, was a bright and lively little vill...

Memphis.   We passed into Memphis as fast as the necessary detentions would permit, through a very beautiful country and handsome buildings....

Memphis.   Awakened by the morning gun at the fort; fell in for roll call, Sergeant Hamilton acting orderly. Saw a Memphis  Bulletin  of the...

Germantown, Tenn.   The train took up the line of march back. Our Section being in the center started at 9 A. M., passing through town up Ma...

Streets almost impassible for footmen. I called in a verry pretty residence surrounded with beautifull shrubery & had a social chat with...

At 8½ Oc we started from our moorings at the boat landing in ft Pickering Memphis Tenn we left Seargent R Murdock & 6 privates from our ...

Struck out tents early this morning and marched to Colliersville, a distance of seven miles from Lafayette and twenty-four from Memphis. As ...

WILL McClellan display unity in conception, and vigor in execution? That is the question. He seems very energetic and active in organizing t...

We struck tents yesterday morning and marched into Memphis, bivouacked on the wharf until dark and then embarked on board the steamer "...

On board transport "Platte Valley." We left Memphis on the 3rd as we supposed for Lake Providence, but when we got within twenty-f...

A bad, rainy day all day long. Yesterday afternoon, my young friend, Lieutenant J. E. B. Stuart, 20 came out, with his wife and child and s...

Evacuated Fort Stockton today. Marched into Memphis through mud nearly knee deep. Slept in an old building near the railroad depot. Heard to...

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...

We are fairly packed on board a small transport; so thickly are we crowded in, it is almost impossible to stir; yet all will stir. Every man...

We are still in the harbor at Memphis awaiting orders. Eight hundred and fifty wounded men were brought to this place yesterday from Vicksbu...

Started on our march to Memphis. Quimby's [ sic ] division are to guard a train of 600 empty wagons. The day's march was a terrible ...

Marched into Memphis, encamped in the southern part of the city near Fort Pickering—one of the meanest places we ever encamped in, no water ...

This morning a squad of twenty men, under the command of Lieutenant Fergus, is sent out on a scout to Eastport, Tennessee river, and another...