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...

Camp McClernand Cairo Ills.   The 48 of our camp, detailed as patrol last night returned this morning at 5½ O'clock Roll call as usual. ...

Duties as usual performed. no Officers drill this morning as was given out last evening on Dress Parade Abut 10 O'clock to day one of th...

Stormy Night. Indications this morning good for a rainy day A marvelous assault was committed at the St. Charles Hotel yesterday by the Repo...

Duties of the morning gone through with as usual Our Company on Police Duty to day cleaning up the Parade ground & digging sinks. nothin...

Bright and beautiful. Three Comps. arrived this morning making out Regt. complete Each Cap. drew co. letter this morning by lotery out [ sic...

In camp at Warrenton. Gen. McClellan left the army to-day, and Gen. Burnside was his successor. He reviewed the troops before he left, and w...

The corps was reviewed by Gen. Hooker. SOURCE: John Lord Parker,  Henry Wilson's Regiment: History of the Twenty-second Massachusetts ...

Newport News is a military post, and is of no importance in any other sense. There were no villages or cities here previous to the war. Now ...

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

Meeting to-day. Chaplain Parker preached. He asked those who would stop swearing to hold up their hands, and so far as I could see every han...

Parade drill of the battery, in presence of Gov. Sprague, and Col. Tompkins, the drill proving very satisfactory. Capt. Vaughan visited us t...

Reveille early this morning preparations for leaving Camp McClernand, Tents struck at a few minutes after 10 A. M. Baggage packed & load...

October 3d, 1862. We have moved camp three miles, and are now five miles above Harper's Ferry, on the banks of the Potomac. The days a...

October 12th. It is now nine o'clock of a Sabbath evening, and as I pen these lines my wife and children, perhaps are listening to wor...

Had a grand review of all the troops stationed at Yorktown to-day, numbering five or six thousand. Magruder is a magnificent looking soldier...

To-day, for a change, we had permission to drill outside the lines, and Orderly White, at the earnest solicitation of some of us, took the c...

11 Oc the Bellair Company of volunteers came to town we formed in line & saluted them I then assigned them their places for dinner which...

Two men in the guard-house. We are improving. Baltimore whiskey got into the camp some way and these men found it. At dress parade to-night,...

We have had several dress parades, in which we made a creditable appearance, considering the fact that no arms had been issued. On presentin...