This has certainly been one of the most exciting days I have spent in the service. We crossed the river on a transport to the Louisana shore...

Nothing of importance occurred. Visit Vidalia daily to look after the negroes encamped there. SOURCE: Joseph Stockton,  War Diary (1862-5)...

Our little Prince sailed . . . Saturday, and got safely out of our hands. Inferences from the phenomena that accompanied his visit are: (1...

The Board of Brokers is in decided panic. Stocks are going down. Cause, the anticipation of trouble growing out of Lincoln’s election. The g...

FORT MOULTRIE, S.C., Jan. 4, 1846. My Dear  Brother : I had to go to North Carolina on a wedding tour at Christmas time, and as soon as I...

The President tells me that Dennison did not intend to leave, — that his purpose was to maintain his party relations but conform to the Admi...

Fine day; lay in camp all day quite a no of the men out to forage. see some Rebs. Capt sent back with detail for rations. Men pull the wagon...

Nothing unusual last night. I am relieved at 6. A. M. & marched the pickets to the Regt. which is on the road at 6.45, at which time the...

Back in town again. I've done something but havn't the least idea what, to displease somebody and havn't the least idea who. Per...

Yesterday morning, Mr. F., a gentleman from my native State, Massachusetts, and who has charge of the Refugee Farm, asked if I would not lik...

The aptness of the pupils, as a whole, is really surprising. Some have learned the alphabet, I am told, in three days, and others in a week....

Boggs, Buttons and I went over the river this morning on an old flat log. About 10 o'clock Si Livingston and I had permission to go out ...

Warm and pleasant. Mud drying up very fast. Work on the ditch was continued today by four hundred Nigs. We draw rations for twelve hundred N...

On guard. Stood picket in a large cotton field which contains five or six hundred acres of cotton, unpicked. I went back to the cane brake a...

We were relieved early. The day was fine. A fleet of ten boats landed here this morning, having on board Logan's division. They landed a...

Oxford, Miss. Awoke with an unpleasant feeling, a racking pain in back and head. Started out early, the road having frozen hard enough to be...

Near Oxford. A day of excitement which came near ending in a serious affair, caused by certain members of the 1st Missouri Regular Battery a...

Clear & Pleasant with frogs jumping about the ponds. This place, Hellena is almost impassible for persons on foot, this day at 10 Oc I s...

Fresh calls for shoemakers. A few weak ones give their names but are not accepted. Negroes have begun additional fortifications working all ...

The policy of enlisting negroes renders it harder for prisoners. So does the emancipation proclamation. The government having enlisted negro...