Scalding heat during forenoon; heavy showers follow. Water is running through camp like a flood. Prisoners reported missing, rations suspend...

Heavy showers all day to near evening. The ground is soaked; thousands walk or lay in mud without covering unless they are among those who h...

A cold rain continued during the night. What would the good folks at home say could they see this camp this cool, wet morning—men lying in t...

Wirz, Gen. John H. Winder, commissary general of prisoners, Howell Cobb and several minor personages came inside on horseback and rode partl...

The impression is growing that the situation is more and more unfavorable every day. Hospitals are overflowing with sick and no more admitta...

A week of rain. Five hundred more prisoners, twenty being marines, captured as late as May 27th. Since yesterday morning the number of death...

Four days I have been ill. Among new men bloody flux and dysentery prevail; this is my trouble. I am better today; a fine breeze lifts me. F...

Northeast storm badly affects weak men. I know of twenty who since yesterday have sunk to utter helplessness; others have died within a few ...

Last night "raiders" attempted to profit by their vile practices. "Moseby's" (this name is given one of the chiefs) ...

At one o'clock P. M. General Reynolds sent for Two of Colonel Wagner's companies had been surrounded, and an attack on Wagner's ...

Our camp equipage came up to-day, so that we are now in our own tents. Four of my companies are on picket, scattered up the valley for mil...

Privates Vincent and Watson, sentinels of a sub-picket, under command of Corporal Stiner, discovered a man stealing through the woods, and h...

I have a hundred axmen in my charge, felling timber on the mountain, and constructing rough breastworks to protect our left flank. General...

Frost last night. Cloudy, cold, and windy to-day. Suffered much yesterday and last night with disordered bowels—from cold. This, however, ma...

Bright, calm, but cold,—my disorder keeping me at home. The dispatch of Gen. Lee, I fear, indicates that our late attempt to break the ene...

Raining rapidly, and warm. Again the sudden change of weather may be an interposition of Providence to defeat the effort of the enemy to d...

HEADQUARTERS,           March 25 , 1865 . At daylight this morning General Gordon assaulted and carried enemy's works at Hare's H...

Drew flour this morning for the first time in eight months. We are to stay here to-day and draw ten months' pay. Our pay-rolls are in th...

Our camp yesterday was enlivened by the joyful news that we had orders to take the cars for some unknown destination, and it is generally be...

Rains incessantly from 5 A. M. Charles Shaw "E." Co. Detch'd as Post teamster shot in shoulder by an Indian soldier of the 9th...