Weather warm and roads dusty. Marched over the battlefield of Port Gibson, where McPherson cleaned the rebels out most effectually. Twenty-t...

Started at four a. m. Reached Raymond by ten o'clock.  The   churches were full of the wounded rebels and our men, for there had been qu...

As the sun peeped over the eastern horizon, we slipped out of camp and went our way rejoicing. Oh, how beautiful the morning; calm and plea...

Logan's Division, to which we belonged, embarked on transports, that had passed the batteries at Vicksburg and Grand Gulf, last nig...

Troops were arriving all night and to-day (Hood's division), and are proceeding Southward, per railroad, it is said for Tennessee, via ...

Culpepper C. H., Va. , April 9, 1864. . . . Rain. The ride of yesterday was too much for me and has excited my cough. Read the Serm...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE, Near Vicksburg, Miss., May 24 , 1863 . Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, General in-Chief, Washingto...

Executive Mansion, Washington, July 13, 1863. Major General Grant My Dear General I do not remember that you and I ever met p...

The Twenty-second Regiment of Iowa Infantry Volunteers was composed of ten companies, seven of which were organized in Johnson County, and o...

The official reports of the Adjutant General of Iowa show that Company A, of the Twenty-first Regiment of Infantry, was ordered into quarter...