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...

5 a. m. The cars shrink, or the men swell, for certainly everybody had less room last night than before. Cross and crabbed, sore in every ...

Rained all day yesterday; cloudy and cool this morning. We have no news-only rumors that Wilmington has been abandoned, that A. P. Hill'...

I have allowed a huge gap to occur in this Diary, for which I can offer a poor excuse. I have been sick with head-ache for about three weeks...

About sundown the shelling ceased, and nearly all of us returned to camp to endeavor to sleep, as we had been up all the night preceding unl...

Received two letters to-day, one from home and one from my brother Pincus, who went to Washington on his way to visit Morris and myself, as ...

Cloudy and cool. The news that Goldsborough, N. C., had been taken is not confirmed. Nor have we intelligence of the renewal of the assault ...

After a very cold night spent in sleeplessness, I arose, determined to have something better to eat than our daily ration of coarse meal and...

Went out this morning for small hog, but couldn't find aged colored individual, so had to go back to camp porkless and in bad humor. Hav...

We returned to camps a little after dark at the same place we started from the morning before. It was a cold, rainy day. We learned that q...

BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS,           Thirteen miles west of Monticello, November 27 , 1861 . General S. COOPER,           Adjutant and Inspector-...

COLUMBIA, KY., November 29 , 1861 .           (Received November 30, 1861.) General GEORGE H. THOMAS: I received a dispatch before day th...

ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 3, 1860. . . . This is a Saturday evening and I am seated at the office table where the Academic Board has been all week ...

KINSTON, May 3, 1864. General S. COOPER,           Adjutant and Inspector General: Order should be given for immediate re-establishment o...

Bright, warm,beautiful. We have a sensation to-day, but really no excitement. A dispatch from Gen. Lee (dated last night) says the  enemy  o...

It cleared away yesterday evening, and this morning, after the dispersion of a fog, the sun shone out in great glory, and the day was bright...

Cool, bright, but windy and dusty. Dispatches announce heavy skirmishing in the vicinity of Dalton —and Gen. Johnston's army was in li...

Near Clinton, November 20, 1864. Struck out foraging before daylight this morning. Almost any house on the road to-day would furnish po...

BELLE PLAIN, VA., May 13, 1864. On the S. C. boat, pulling up to the shore Government flatboats of horses and cavalry recruits. There a...

Powder Springs, November 4, 1864, 6 p.m. Cold rain to-day. Made 15 miles. Country only fit for (?) Come through a long line of fine wor...