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...

Between Front Royal and Winchester, Va.           , June 21, 1863 . We are in the Valley of Virginia again and are now within ten miles of...

Still in camp. Hugh Sample and myself were out on a forage and milked a cow in his hat, the only thing we had. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary ...

HOSPITAL LIFE. Thus far I have been unable to discover any charms in hospital life. With fair health the active camp is far preferable. Th...

NED CARTER THE BLACKSMITH. When I first came here I was pretty well used up, but thanks to my friends, Garland of company C and Wheelock a...

[ w ]e are busily engaged cleaning off our camp ground; we have no water here; are compelled to haul it from a distance. To-day we send six ...

AN EXCURSION.  Companies C and B, together with Capt. Schenck's New York battery company as infantry, returned yesterday afternoon fro...

  CAMP NEAR WOLFSVILLE, MARYLAND, August 2, 1864. MY DARLING:- We are having a jolly good time about sixteen miles north of Middletown, re...

I was detailed to the charge of a squad of men to guard rebel prisoners in the corral at Logan's headquarters. They were not hard to gua...

Near Jonesboro, November 15, 1864. The grand expeditionary force has commenced moving. Our regiment has the honor of leading our corps ...

My thirty-seventh birthday yesterday. Never thought I would spend it in South Carolina, on a plantation too, and there by right as occupan...

We are now three miles from yesterday's resting place, and near the Miller plantation. Soon as dark last night we went to the negro hut...

Still at Doctortown, and the town is doctoring me up “right smart.” There is also a joke to this, but a weak one. The whole town are exerci...

Another beautiful morning, a repetition of yesterday, opens up to me. It is particularly necessary that I procure sustenance wherewith life...

Marine Hospital , Savannah, Ga. — A great change has taken place since I last wrote in my diary. Am in heaven now compared with the past. A...

All astir again early. Soon after breakfast teams pulled out. Thede and I went ahead. Got a drink of milk at West's. Case not so well. ...

In the morning early issued potatoes and beef. Thede felt a little better. After breakfast got water and helped him bathe. Bathed myself an...

Up at daylight, breakfasted, fed and started on at 6. Gen. Carter passed by. Went but two miles and waited an hour or two. River not fordab...

Tattoo 9 p. m. — They are really expecting an attack on Bird's Point, and we will all be kept close in quarters evenings after sunset t...

Spend a pleasant day, have a skiff ride, boys fishing a great deal, plenty of eels in the creek, the train gone in with 3 wounded of the 91...