While we are encamped life is so monotonous that I do not usually regard it as necessary to keep a diary, but occasionally we have a little ...

It was with a bounding heart, brimful of gratitude to God, that I stepped on board the Dakota and bade farewell to Haines Bluff on the secon...

Then Lieut. Newell told us to "go," and we went, as well as we could, for quarters. Arriving at the granary, and having left our  ...

DREADFUL DAYS DRAG ON—NIGGER IN THE EXCHANGE FENCE. A man shot through the body and killed while dipping water from the stream several fee...

Today two brigades of our division were reviewed by Adjutant General Thomas of the United States Army. Afterwards we were closed in "ma...

Stopped at Barnum’s on my way downtown to see the much advertised nondescript, the "What-is-it.” 1 Some say it’s an advanced chimpanze...

In the Name of God Amen I Peter Jefferson of the County of Abemarle being of perfect and sound memory (for which I bless God) Do make and Pu...

Day cool. A. M. making Inspection reports. P. M. rec my commission as 2d Lt of co G. aggregate too low to muster. The Negro Brigade from Ft ...

Start at 2 A. M. Rowena passed us in the night. touched at St Charles at 8. A. M. negro Regt. there & fortifications Landed at mouth of ...

Yesterday evening there were heavy clouds and a good deal of lightning in the North; after supper laid down on the deck and slept very comfo...

Jesse Walker and I went out foraging and succeeded in capturing a shoat. The nigs were left very destitute and there will be a great deal of...

On picket guard today. Got my boots half soled. Gen. McPherson passed through here, and Logan's division is coming up and passing throug...

Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governour, Council and Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, [...

On shore again. The well ones are drilling and the sick are enjoying themselves any way they can. Mail came to-day and I have a long letter ...

Another clear and bright morning. It was a quiet night, with its million of stars. And yet how few could sleep, in anticipation of the entra...

Another bright and beautiful day. I walked around the burnt district this morning. Some seven hundred houses, from Main Street to the cana...

Bright and pleasant. Stayed with my next door neighbors at their request last night—all females. It was quiet; and so far the United State...

Considerable picket firing. Captain Owen opened with his twenty-pound Parrott guns, from Edwards Ferry, on Fort Beauregard. Kept up firing f...

Night cold. ice 2 inches off. at 7. road bad 4 miles slow. rest of march fast. 1 pris. taken. 25 Rebs seen by scout. Make 12 miles. troops f...

Nashville, Tenn., Thursday Evening, April 7. The present week, thus far, has been to me, full of new and thrilling experiences. On Sabba...