No variation in the daily routine of duties to day One of our men Thomas Onwhistle severely reprimanded for disrespect towards the Col. At D...

CAIRO, ILL.   Since the last date I have been to busy to attempt anything in the way of writing. The Board of Trade Regiment was mustered in...

PADUCAH, KY.   On Saturday morning about five o'clock we were ordered to be ready to march in twenty-five minutes. We soon learned our d...

COLUMBUS, KENTUCKY.   Last Tuesday we received marching orders from Paducah. Wednesday morning about 4 o'clock Co. A with some fifty sic...

NASHVILLE, January 27 , 1862 . J. D. C. ATKINS, Member Congress: Crittenden can never rally troops [in] East Tennessee. Some other genera...

To-day we receive orders to hold ourselves in readiness to move at a moment's notice. Lieutenant Colonel Babcock having, from exposure ...

The regiment takes passage on board the steamer City of Memphis, for parts unknown. Being nearly all day loading the camp and garrison equip...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSISSIPPI,        Saint Louis, March 16 , 1862 . Major-General BUELL, Nashville: Move your forces ...

Bird's Point , January 10, 1862. Since daylight yesterday morning we have been all ready with five days' rations and expecting ...

SOUTH FLORENCE ALL 6 Augest 1851 Mr WILLIAM STILL No 31 North Fifth street Philadelphia Sir a few days sinc mr Lewis Tharenton of ...

Bird's Point , November 13, 1861. Home once more. We all call this home now. Just as we landed last night the Iowa 7th was forming ...

EASTPORT, MISS., Feb. 3, 1851. To WM. STILL: — Our friends in Cincinnati have failed finding anybody to assist me on my return. Searchi...

Norfolk [date torn off.] The colonel talks some to-night about a forward movement, and two regiments have come across the river from t...

Camp Norfolk, September 12, 1861. Agreeable to our very short notice we packed our knapsacks, put three days rations in our haversacks,...

Cairo.   The refreshments and drygoods from home arrived Saturday. We were at Paducah then and they were taken care of by two or three of t...

Quite cool today. Lost all my blankets and overcoat yesterday. Passed Island No. 10, and arrived at Columbus, Ky., at 11 p.m. At Cairo chan...

Gen. Pillow has advanced, and occupied Columbus, Ky. He was ordered, by telegraph, to abandon the town and return to his former position. T...

We lay here all day awaiting the boats. Nathan Chase, a veteran of our company, got into trouble with some men of the Fifty-third Indiana R...

We remained in bivouac all day. The transports did not return today as expected. The recruits of the Eleventh Iowa were formed into a batta...

We left Cairo at 1 o'clock in the night and arrived at Paducah, Kentucky, at 10 o'clock today. We were sent here to reinforce the t...