Cleaning house day in the hospital. I have been helping so one of the nurses can get off for a walk outside. We found a burying ground where...

One of Company A's men died to-day. His name was Burch. A boat-load of negroes landed here to-day and were taken down towards the city, ...

A little excitement to-day. An attempt was made to spike some guns near the negro troops headquarters. A few shots were fired but no one hit...

I had a letter last evening from Secretary McCulloch, inclosing copy of one addressed to the President, requesting that Commodore S. P. Lee ...

To day I paid Dr. [            ] Billingslea $5. for his medical attendance upon Lear (my mother's freed woman). He presented a bill sta...

Rained last night & thought myself quite fortunate in having procured enough pieces of Reb tents to make a tent large enough to hold Tem...

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 91s...

Soon as breakfast is over sit down to write a letter, not finished before I was detailed to take charge of 40 men & report to Div Head Q...

Quiet all night, a little shower about Midnight. As I was not notified that we would march today lay in bed until late. Our Nigger Charlie b...

By 6. a. m. all ready march to the river descend at a steep bluff. was possible to get down but impossible to get up if up was the word, wer...

A. M. to commissary for stores. The fort is laid out today, & details made to work on it. At noon was detailed for picket to report imme...

The best news for us since the war began has come within a day or two; and it is confirmed. Beaufort, S. C., is taken by a federal fleet, an...

This P. M., Miss O. and myself accompanied Rev. E. P. Smith to listen to his "colored preaching," as he termed it, in the same chu...

Spring has long delayed her coming here as well as northward. I could not be comfortable this P. M. in my room without a fire. Still, despit...

Have been to Hospital, No. 1, at the request of a mother whose young son had died there. She is in great anxiety to learn something of his l...

We had a short game of ball this morning, but Buttons got mad and broke it up. Negroes are coming in very fast. We had dress parade at 5 o...

Bright and pleasant. About one hundred and twenty-five Nigs were set to work this morning to open the old levee and let the water in. We wer...

Hot and sultry. I got up at reveille and went down to see how the cut prospered, and found the water rushing through, a perfect torrent. The...

The water rose in the canal so that it ran up into our camp in the night. It washed away the trees that were rooted up yesterday. The channe...

We had a lively time last night. A storm of rain and wind began about 10 o'clock in the evening and kept up until about 12, when the win...