Rained all night; we were ordered out at half-past four this morning, and remained under arms till the pickets were changed. We are detailed...

We had a regular old-fashioned rain last night for a change. At ten P.M., in the dark and storm, we started from town; marched about a mile ...

SIEGE AT WASHINGTON. It has rained nearly all this week, and until yesterday we have been loafing, trying to kill time. Last night our com...

Last night about seven o'clock, as we were standing behind the breastworks looking towards the woods, we were startled by a flash, and h...

Went to Murfreesboro' on a visit from camp, as we were resting in camp on this day from the fatigue of our scout ; being two miles to to...

My back is yet suffering I fear it is rheumatism Our Capt TM Fee has gone out with a squad of men on picket his first adventure here SOURC...

Steady raine from 9 Oc morning untill now 11 Oc night, I went on picket this morning & expected to remain until tomorrow morning but our...

a snowey day and we all had to go on picket down at Port Royal. SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone,  The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone,  p. ...

it raind all day long and the snow nearly all melted of by nite and we still stade on picket SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone,  The Diary of...

cloudy but no rain and we returned to our Regiment SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone,  The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone,  p. 30

No. 15. Report of Capt. William H. Jamison, Twenty-first Illinois Infantry, of operations December 15-31, 1864. HEADQUARTERS TWENTY-FIRS...

Genl Smiths corps commences moving at daylight; go out to see them pass; we rec orders to drill from 10. to 11. A. M. This order is counterm...

CAMP ON THE RAPIDAN,           MAY 26TH, 1863. MY PRECIOUS WIFE: The order to move has been countermanded for the present, and we will be o...

CAMP ON THE RAPIDAN,           MAY 30TH, 1863. MY PRECIOUS WIFE: I write you a few lines by an Irishman who has just gotten a discharge fro...

On guard. Stood picket in a large cotton field which contains five or six hundred acres of cotton, unpicked. I went back to the cane brake a...

Rain, and nothing but rain; only the cleanest companies relieved, and we caught it again, and some of us are checked as extra guard. And now...

Went on picket out on the field where Jeff. Davis made a speech to his men, 2½ miles from Murfreesboro' camp, making a march of 5 miles....

Went on picket on the Manchester pike four miles, making five days rest in camp there, and returned the next day to camp, making a march of ...

10 Oc I took part of the Company & went out on Picket 1½ miles from Camp posted my Pickets & plased my videtts, we occupied a pictur...

Rained moderately untill 12 Oc night, when it commenced to pour it down in torrants & continued incessantly all the night long At 9½ Oc ...