I introduce the following letter to a friend, as sufficiently explicit as to the occurrences since the last date: CHAIN BRIDGE, VA., Sept....

Reports are that a great battle has been fought at Antietam, and a great victory won. Do they tell us this to keep up our courage, or has th...

On picket duty at Catonsville again. The people and the peaches are just as good as ever. We are glad enough of this outing, after our hard ...

Came back to camp. Company on picket. Burke in command at camp. I was put on comm. guard. SOURCE: Ephraim Shelby Dodd, Diary of Ephraim Sh...

During this time had several false alarms amounting to a run down the pike and back to Camp. Also regular turns on picket. SOURCE: Ephraim...

Went on picket. I was put on at the Widow ———. SOURCE: Ephraim Shelby Dodd, Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member of Company D Terry's ...

Was transferred to Black's picket at Holt's and stood to-night. SOURCE: Ephraim Shelby Dodd, Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member ...

clear and cool and our company was on picket gard today at Greenwood Chirch SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone,  The Diary of Bartlett Yancey ...

One o'clock A. M. Orders arrived to return immediately to Seneca Mills. The left section marched at once, arriving towards day-break. At...

We move early this morning. Meeting increased obstructions and encountering rebels in our front, we only succeed in getting about four miles...

Went into battery on the banks of the Potomac. In the mean time the first brigade of the first division went across the river to reconnoitre...

Companies A and F go on picket a few miles west of Moscow, Tennessee. SOURCE: Joseph Stockton,  War Diary (1862-5) of Brevet Brigadier Gen...

This is Thanksgiving Day as ordered by the President of the United States. Spent the day in the woods on picket duty. My dinner was hard tac...

The storm came. A soaking rain in the night; it soaked every one of us. I suppose the officers fared better, for they have tents like houses...

Gov. Sprague, Col. Wheaton, Major Tompkins, and Capt. Reynolds, visited the section on picket. Quiet up to [Monday, September 16.] SOURCE:...

Orders came to leave the picket line at dark, and return to Camp Jackson. SOURCE: Theodore Reichardt,  Diary of Battery A, First Regiment ...

About sundown the shelling ceased, and nearly all of us returned to camp to endeavor to sleep, as we had been up all the night preceding unl...

Maryland Heights, Va., September 21st, 1862. Toward evening of the 13th we left Frederic City and marched out on the National Turnpike tow...

was a raney one and our Company was on picket gard at Greenwood Church which is in about 9 miles from Pocoquan And Mr. I. F. Richmond arived...

Left camp at 8 this morning to go on picket twelve miles from our camp. Our brigade went on picket at Raccoon Ford, and picketed up to Moult...