To-day begins the Pennsylvania campaign. Reveille sounded at four A.M. Left camp at six o'clock. Marched through Leesburg, and crossed t...

This morning our Brigade Surgeon ordered me to leave the hospital for a few days, on account of my fatigue and prostration. He said that a r...

I had comforted myself with the reflection that when we returned to Kentucky, where communications were uninterrupted by guerillas, and were...

We managed to get clear of the Roanoke river some time in the night, but ran aground in the Sound at noon, thinking we were opposite Roanoke...

This has been another fine dry and bright day. The roads are geting quite good. The dust is thick on Pa. Av e  today. There has probably bee...

Pleasant morning but the ground is covered with snow tonight. Snowed very hard the middle of the day. It has thawed all the time. Went to ch...

The event of the day has been the Funeral of the gallant Genl Lander. It took place at the Epiphany church, starting from the Residence of S...

A beautiful clear day but rather cool out, in the office as usual. Nothing new in the city that I hear of tonight. I have been down to Charl...

The weather is now fine & the roads are drying up. Troops are coming into the City and crossing over the River. Rumors afloat of fightin...

This has been an exciting day. The troops commenced moving last night about midnight and have been going over the River nearly all the time ...

The River is full of Steam Boats for transporting troops down the River, probably to “Old Point”. It has rained incessantly and this evening...

we crost the Potomac at Shepards town about nite and it was 24 miles from Berryville SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone,  The Diary of Bartlet...

Haines Bluff, Miss.   We arrived at our old camp yesterday—twenty days from the time we left it—the toughest twenty days of our experience. ...

Five companies of the Twenty-third Ohio and five companies of the Ninth Ohio arrived to-day, and are encamped in a maple grove about a mile ...

Nothing new at all today, a little skirmishing over the River. Some Rebels killed and sixteen prisoners taken and brought in here last night...

Cloudy morning and rain before noon again. The roads were getting quite passable yesterday. There was a stir among the Military. Genl Banks ...

A great movement of troops over the river and from here over, has taken place. The Trains from the City going East have been stopped and no ...

This has been a cool, windy, drying day and a few such are much needed to dry up the roads. In the absence of War news from the Army, all so...

During the past month the right section done picket duty once on the Potomac. SOURCE: Theodore Reichardt,  Diary of Battery A, First Regim...

The battery crossed the Potomac to Harper's Ferry on a pontoon bridge. We occupy one of the government buildings on the hill. SOURCE: ...