Orders are very strict. If caught outside of the pickets the fine is ten dollars. We get up at 4 o'clock in the morning and stack our ar...

just twelve months from the time I left home we crost over and about 10 oclock we overtaken the scamps again And they comenced throwing bumb...

we was marched around to the left of our armey and was expecting to have to fight every minnet but did not for thar was no fiting don except...

Last night pickets of 43d Ills Kill one capture one and see another bushwhacker. Colm moves at 6.30 for the Rocks, Roads 1½ good 1½ very bad...

A little skirmish to-day, amounting to almost nothing. A party of four or five hundred went out in the morning, came upon the enemy's pi...

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...