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...

Orders have come at last. "Forward to Vicksburg!" is the cry. We are steaming down the grand old river once again, ready to face d...

Weather fine & pleasant,—with indications of rain Duties of the morning as usual—much rejoicing through out the camp—though no open demo...

On the high land overlooking the Potomac, about six or seven miles above the Navy Yard at Washington, we have, since our arrival here, throw...

“Let the levees on the Mississippi be at once prostrated in a hundred places, while the water is high, and let the Traitors and Rebels livin...

RICHMOND, May 2, 1861. MY DEAR MRS GARDINER: I have but a moment ago received your letter from the hands of Mrs. Pegram, and regret to per...

PORT HUDSON, LA. We arrived at this port yesterday at noon, having made a quick run from the scene of our late action, coming through withou...

We went in Mississippi swimming. I wrote to father. Snake in first lieutenant's blanket. SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson, Diary of Lewis C. Pa...

COLUMBUS, KENTUCKY.   Last Tuesday we received marching orders from Paducah. Wednesday morning about 4 o'clock Co. A with some fifty sic...

Yesterday we had a pleasant time, compared with that of the day before. The whole command sobered off, and, the day being fine, we enjoyed t...

We have passed the danger for the present, and our boat is now steaming up Red river. The Indianola went up the Mississippi last night, and ...

About one o'clock we met the balance of our fleet coming down, and our boat turned her prow down stream to act in concert with them. The...

We are steaming up the river in search of the enemy, and have just passed the place where he lay-to last night; so that we are now in full c...

The Reconstruction Committee have reported a resolution for admitting Tennessee Members. It is, in its phraseology and conditions, in charac...

It is reported to-day that the enemy is coming up the river; if this is the case, I will have an "item" shortly. I have been sorel...

Yesterday we moved back into civilization, and took up quarters in a swamp near the broad Mississippi. Have a good camping-ground for this c...

St. Louis, May 13, 1861. MY DEAR FRIEND: I have been intending for a long while to answer your last very kind letter. I suppose you still ...

MONTPELLIER, Nov 25, 1820. I have received, my dear friend, your kind letter of July 22, inclosing your printed opinion on the Election pr...

Cool and cloudy; symptoms of the equinoctial gale. We have intelligence of another brilliant feat of Gen. Wade Hampton. Day before yesterd...

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 9, 1860. . . . I am clearly of the opinion that you ought not to remain much longer at your present post. You w...