Another hot day. How hot I don't know, but it wilted me. I tumbled down, completely used up while at drill. Several others did the same....

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...

Headquarters 1st Division, Battery Island, June 25th, 1862. My dear Mother: I have received your kind letters with their urgent r...

Camp near Point Pleasant, Mo., March 26, 1862. It is, to-day, very much warmer. I'm altogether too hot to be comfortable in my shir...

September 17, 1861. Well, I've slept half of this day and feel sleepy yet. I had a tough time on picket last night. We were divided...

Musketoes & fleas, drove Morpheus out of the Bks, A. M. to Com for stores for Mess, writeing a little too hot to work much. Orders to t...

Quite busy all day & late at night Musketoes & fleas bad. SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa Infantry,” ...

Early this morning pass over ship island shoals the light house in sight. A. M. quite a sharp shower, reach the S. W. pass at 6 P. M. Pilo...

Received marching orders on the second and today went on board the Moly Able bound for New Orleans, At eleven p. m. landed at Algiers oppos...

At last venit summa dies et ineluctabile tempus. I had seen as much as might be of the best phase of the great institution — less than I co...