(I shall not, in this book, feel obliged to give the proceedings.and doings of every day. Whilst in camp, sometimes for whole weeks, one day...

The project was started to build huts for winter-quarters. Details were made every day, to cut heavy timber, which was done for a week. But ...

Little book, give me your ear. Close! There! Promise me never to breathe it! Blank loves Blank! Yes, he does! And she doesn't care for h...

Reports are that a great battle has been fought at Antietam, and a great victory won. Do they tell us this to keep up our courage, or has th...

Battalion-drill to-day. It was just as hot as yesterday, and some say hotter. The lieutenant colonel, James Smith, came last night, and has ...

I do not know but that I have the blues to-day. However that may be, it is sad to contemplate the selfishness of our officers. When I witnes...

CAMP NEAR STRASBURG, VIRGINIA, October 15, 1864. Dear Mother:— We have remained quiet in camp during this week with the exception of one a...

A CONFLICT OF AUTHORITY. There is among army officers a constant jealousy and strife for promotion and rank, watching and looking after ea...

The Rebels have left the railroad after being whipped by General Corse at Allatoona Pass. The 14th Corps drove them out to Lost Mountain ye...

A letter from the President, for the Secretary of War, marked “private,” came in to-day at 2 P.M. Can it be an acceptance of his resignatio...

WASHINGTON CITY,          April 15 , 1865 — 4 p.m. Major-General ORD, Richmond, Va.: Arrest J. A. Campbell, Mayor Mayo, and the ...

To-day the line officers are formed into a company and drilled by Colonel Babcock in the company movements. They make a fine company, and ...

The Seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry now commences its three years' service with the following roster of officers. Col...

To-day the Seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry is mustered into the United States service by Captain John Pope, United States Army, with th...

MILES ON ROAD FROM MICKEY'S TO CORINTH,      April 8 , 1862 — 7 . 30 a.m. [General BEAUREGARD:] MY DEAR GENERAL: Our condition...

July 6, 1864. I went down to our front this evening. Our advanced artillery is yet some 1,200 yards from the Rebels, but there is nothi...

Dan left us. He has been a brave and faithful soldier. It seems hard to lose him. He will make a splendid officer. Still rain and hail fall...

Got officers to sign papers. Forges get back loaded. SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney,  War Diary Of Luman Harris Tenney , p. 130

The reason we have not been exchanged is because if the exchange is made it will put all the men held by the union forces right into the re...

Camp Near Falmouth, Va . December 7th, 1862. My dear Mother: We are still lying quietly in camp — no signs of a move yet, but gener...