CHAFFIN'S BLUFF, October 16 , 1864 . On the 14th instant Colonel Mosby struck the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Duffield's; dest...

For the last month nothing but a dull monotony has reigned in camp, but things are now becoming more lively. The paymaster has made his appe...

To-day our regiment is detailed to advance with the picket line and protect a fatigue party while building roads and bridges for the advance...

Here we enter upon the patriotic month of July, and where and how we are to spend it is yet beyond our conjecture, for we never know in this...

This is Camp Tiffin. Our regiment was favored to-day with a large mail, and nothing could have been more acceptable. Letters from home were ...

Dog or Shelter Tent. We halted this morning at six o'clock, and but a few minutes elapsed before two-thirds of the regiment were fast as...

Paymaster Major Sherman arrives to-day, and in the afternoon commences to pay the regiment; pays the field officers and staff, and non-comm...

To-day the Paymaster finishes paying the regiment. The men are now flush with the “collaterals” and in consequence the sutlers and swindlers...

Wrote home and to several friends. Went to the landing and procured some little eatables and paper. Paymaster in camp. Saw him. Busy with t...

In camp. Regt. not picket. Cloudy. Paymaster came. SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney,  War Diary Of Luman Harris Tenney , p. 134

Paymaster paid off 1st Conn. Drew 8 months' pay. Lt. Meigs of Sheridan's staff killed by guerrillas. SOURCE: Frances Andrew...

Six-thirty a. m. 25th. — Bless me, how it rained and blew last night. Do you remember the storm at Point Pleasant, Mo., April 1, 1862? Neve...

Scottsboro, Ala., March 12, 1864. I have been tremendously demoralized for nearly a month in consequence of a terrible cold I caught by...

ATLANTA, GA., September 17, 1864 — 8 a.m.        (Received 1.50 a.m. 18th.) Major-General HALLECK. Chief of Staff: My report is ...

A bright pleasant morning and day. After breakfast went up to Col. Foster's. Telegraphed to Garrard whether to go to Command or remain ...

PITTSBURGH, PA., April 28 , 1862 . Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: Your several dispatches have been received and acted up...

Headquarters,  U. S. Forces En Route To F. Monroe , July 12th, 1862. My dear Mother: When I wrote you a few hurried, peevish line...

WILLIAM PENN CLARKE was born in Baltimore, Maryland, October 1, 1817. At the age of fourteen he went to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and learn...

A cold morning, but a bright warm sun melts the snow on all the low ground. Lieutenant Smith says some of our prisoners at South Mountain h...

After breakfast and morning work issued rations — beef —   at daylight. Felt rather tired after the work. Cleaned a carbine I had used for ...