Went out today and visited the pickets. Riding through the woods is fearful on both man and beast, as the gnats and mosquitoes are terrible,...

Was awakened this morning at one o'clock, by a soldier in search of a surgeon. One of our pickets had been wounded. The post was on the ...

Last night a sentinel on one of the picket posts halted a stump and demanded the countersign. No response being made, he fired. The entire F...

Two gun-boats and two transports came up to Chickasaw and landed about one hundred and twenty cavalry and three regiments of infantry about ...

Six of Captain Allison's Company (J. W. Kennedy, H. L. W. Turney, Jim Thomas, W. E. Rich, Tom O'Conner and B. A. Hancock), whom we h...

It was reported that the Federals were at Sulphur Springs, some twelve or fifteen miles from Burnsville. The picket on that road was reenf...

Got his wagon and hauled one load to Camp. Camp moved three miles further up the pike. I went up Creek and got Mr. Jonichin to start with hi...

we travield sloley down the Chickahominy River driving in the pickets as we went SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone,  The Diary of Bartlett Ya...

Bright and pleasant. Stayed with my next door neighbors at their request last night—all females. It was quiet; and so far the United State...

Left the Tunnel camp and arrived at Grallatin on the same day, driving General Morgan and his forces out of the above named town, killing on...

It is said the pickets of the Fourteenth Indiana and the enemy's cavalry came in collision to-day, and that three of the latter were kil...

At one o'clock P. M. General Reynolds sent for Two of Colonel Wagner's companies had been surrounded, and an attack on Wagner's ...

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

Pickets report firing, artillery and musketry, over the mountain, in the direction of Kimball. The enemy's scouts were within three mi...

This is the fourth day that Captain Cunard's company has been lying in the woods, three miles from camp, guarding an important road, alt...

Privates Vincent and Watson, sentinels of a sub-picket, under command of Corporal Stiner, discovered a man stealing through the woods, and h...

The 28 day was clear and about a hour befour the sun set we left our camp And march all night down toward Hanover Coathouse And we past in a...

Frost last night. Cloudy, cold, and windy to-day. Suffered much yesterday and last night with disordered bowels—from cold. This, however, ma...

An officer of the First Minnesota Regiment appeared at our quarters, communicating that rebel pickets occupied Harrison's Island. SOUR...

Considerable picket firing. Nothing important up to Monday ,  January  20. SOURCE: Theodore Reichardt,  Diary of Battery A, First Regiment...