A great day of sport to usher in the new year. Amongst other amusements in our army, Hancock's Brigade "got up a time on its own ho...

All quiet in camp to-day, only some little foraging for ducks, chickens, pigs, &c., so that the sons of Uncle Sam's family enjoyed 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...

Sunday morning the regiment was ordered out on grand guard. Went up on hill some two miles from camp—heavy firing heard in the distance—McAr...

I RECEIVE AN APPOINTMENT. The ward next me on the left is a colored one, and contains from 60 to 80 men, according to recruits and drafts....