Fair Oaks. The rebels open on General Gorman's picket line, without inflicting any damage. SOURCE: Theodore Reichardt,  Diary of Batte...

Lay in the rifle pits all night. Could hear Smith in the night shelling the Reb transports during the night. Were relieved at 8. A M. & ...

We learned after dark that the Federals were at Burnsville. So McKnight's Company was sent out to re-enforce the picket on the Burnsvill...

One of the pickets of the Thirty-fourth New York, shot the rebel officer of the day, passing the picket line alongside the river. SOURCE: ...

Major Wood, Fifteenth Indiana, thought he heard chopping last night, and imagined that the enemy was engaged in cutting a road to our rear. ...

HEADQUARTERS,           March 25 , 1865 . At daylight this morning General Gordon assaulted and carried enemy's works at Hare's H...

General ORDERS No. 4.} HDQRS, DISTRICT OF VICKSBURG,           Vicksburg, Miss., May 5, 1864. I. No persons except those in the employ of ...

This morning, at two o'clock, I was rattled up by a sentinel, who had come to camp in hot haste to inform me that he had seen and fired ...

Two gun-boats and three transports came up and landed some troops at Eastport and Chickasaw, after firing a few shots at the former place. T...

Left the picket line again, returned to Camp Jackson, started for Darnestown by six o'clock, and arrived there by eight o'clock P. M...

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

Our barracks are finished and the regiment cosily quartered therein. The picket line is now affording considerable attraction. The citizens ...

Advance at daylight. A part of the Union army, Gen. Tyler's troops, engaged. This conflict the rebels call battle of Bull Run. While the...

Hospital near Hamilton's Crossing, Va . ,           June 12, 1863. Our corps is lying in line of battle in the trenches, and has been ...

Early this morning the command is up and ready to move forward. While waiting to hear the bugle call, Sergeant Flint, with his mind ever rea...

Sept. 10th We are camped on Sac River, some four miles from Springfield   It is a beautiful camping place—rive on three sides, that afford...

All day we lay behind our entrenchments; our works of defense seem impregnable. It is now quiet along our picket line. The rebels are drawin...

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...

Last night God smiled upon the army by opening the windows of heaven and causing the rain to fall. Nature is refreshed; water is more plenty...

Rebels attacked our picket line and drove it after a brisk skirmish. (The) Twenty-third and Thirty-sixth supporting soon check the Rebels. O...