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 ...

Everything quiet; the assault was not successful. Regiment went out on picket duty on the 29th; out for 24 hours. Nothing occurred. SOURCE...

Moscow. Orders were sent to Captain to have two best non-commissioned officers to report at Colonel Powell's headquarters by 8 A. M. Ser...

We came down to the forks of the pike two miles from Liberty. I and Reuben Stroud stopped and got supper and our horses fed. Found four comp...

The first day of January was a pritty day and our Company was on picket down on the Rapahanock River about a mile and a half below Frederick...

While we are encamped life is so monotonous that I do not usually regard it as necessary to keep a diary, but occasionally we have a little ...

Left South Fork camp, marched to Taylorsville, and went three miles out on picket the same night, making a march of 23 miles. SOURCE: Adam...

Left Taylorsville camp, remaining the 3d on picket and marched the 4th to Bloomington, and encamped for the night, making a march of 10 mile...