Broke camp today. Left for Oxford on our retreat to where, I don't know, as the rebel General Van Dorn, through the treachery of Colonel...

Started on our march to Memphis. Quimby's [ sic ] division are to guard a train of 600 empty wagons. The day's march was a terrible ...

Left camp at 6 o'clock. Roads in a terrible condition, mud knee deep, marching almost impossible; artillery stuck in the road, wagons in...

MOBILE, August 11, 1864. Hon. J. A. SEDDON,     Secretary of War: Raid preparing at Pensacola Navy-Yard; quiet elsewhere. Nothing late from...

We started at 6 o’clock this morning and arrived in Oxford at about 10. We were inspected by General Grant, passing through the town by pla...

We struck our tents this morning and at 10 o'clock started toward Oxford. We went into bivouac for the night within four miles of the t...