We are now marching parallel with the Ogeechee river. We go into camp early. Now and then occasional firing is heard on the flanks, front an...

This morning we cross the Ogeechee, and do not advance far until skirmishing commences; Company K is deployed forward, and Company H barrica...

Finds us across the Ogeechee, finds us before Savannah, finds us twelve miles from the sea. A defiant foe is before us disputing our advance...

During the siege of Savannah Major Johnson was off on the flanks of the army with the mounted portion of the regiment, scouting, foraging, d...

CHARLESTON, December 15, 1864. Col. JOHN B. SALE,           Military Secretary, Richmond: My services not being longer needed in this dep...

Clear and pleasant; subsequently cloudy and chilly. All quiet below, save the occasional booming of our guns from the iron-clads. The ca...

GRAHAMVILLE, December 8 , 1864 . [General BRAXTON BRAGG:] The enemy are still moving on toward Savannah, obstructing the roads in their r...

Snowed two inches last night. Cloudy and damp this morning. Guns were heard down the river last night at a late hour. Perhaps it was nothi...

Eden Ferry, Ogeechee river,  December 6, 1864.  We lay in camp until 1 p. m. when we suddenly pulled out and made this point, and had works ...

Wright's Bridge, Ogeechee River,  December 7, 1864.  We have not moved to-day. Sergt. N. Breed, of my company, who was shot through the ...

Same place,  December 9, 1864.  The division lay in camp all day. Our regiment marched 12 miles on a reconnoisance, toward the Canoochie riv...

Before Savannah,  December 10, 1864.  Crossed the Ogeechee near the mouth of the Canoochie, then a canal, and then up the tow path toward th...

Green Square, Savannah, Camp 103d Illinois "Provost Guards."  December 22, 1864.  We have just by a hair's breadth missed what...

Left this morning at 8 o'clock for King's bridge over the Ogeechee river at a point fifteen miles from Savannah, where we again wen...

The capture of Fort McAllister gives us our first communication with the North since the telegraph wires were cut at Marietta, Georgia, on ...