Very cloudy; marched nearly to Louisa Courthouse; our men are much jaded. SOURCE: William S. White,  A Diary of the War; or What I Saw of ...

Paymaster Frazer paid the regiment to May 1. This made the men feel good and put us all in good humor with Uncle Sam. Sutlers are here now w...

In camp near Elizabethtown. The road over which we marched was excellent; but owing to detention at Salt river, where the troops and trains ...

Yesterday the chaplain's tent for public worship came and this morning we were all gathered there and the chaplain was praying, when sna...

It rained hard last night and before the tents got soaked up enough water sifted through to wet our blankets and we hardly slept at all for ...

I am disappointed to-night, and feel sadly. I had almost no letters from home lately. None yesterday, to-day none. To-morrow I hope I shall ...

To-day I have received the expected letter; but it relieves no part of my sadness. My dear child at home is no better. I may never meet her ...

Knoxville, Tenn.       We left the Gap on the twenty-first and made twenty miles, climbing up one side of a mountain two or three miles, the...

To-day we have been ordered back to the old camp of the First Virginia Artillery, and a lovely spot it is. In front of us is an open field, ...

Raining very hard all day; 'tis extremely dull in camp. As is the weather so is the spirit; the sombre clouds of a gloomy day often cast...

It is after tattoo. Parson Strong's prayer meeting has been dismissed an hour, and the camp is as quiet as if deserted. The day has been...

We have had a rain and the hard ground made the softest kind of mud. It sticks to our feet and clothes, and everybody is cross and crabbed. ...

John Van Hoovenburg, another Company B boy, is about gone. The men are getting discouraged and to keep their minds from themselves it is sai...

Corn bread, as served here, is to me what a single feather was to Paddy's head on a rock and what he thought more would be if supplied. ...

Feel rather blue but finish the Pay rolls P. M. Battalian drill was not out. SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, Thirty-Third Iow...

We struck our tents and started for Grand Junction about 10 o'clock. The boys are in fine health and spirits. We marched about nine mile...

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...

[July 10, 1862] My last letter to you, written two or three days ago, was rather blue I think. I had then been here a day or two, and the ...

Officers and men are low-spirited to-night. The news of yesterday has been confirmed. Our army has been beaten at Manassas with terrible los...

This morning at four o'clock we left our camp of the last four days, and came to our present abiding place, in a thick grove, about two ...