Went into quarters in the navy yard at Memphis. Quarters very good. Men under shelter. The machine shop is used as barracks for the regiment...

CAMP HASTINGS, March 18, 1865. DEAR Uncle: — I have very little care or responsibility. My command is exclusively a fighting command. I ha...

CAMP HASTINGS, April 3, 1865. DEAR COLONEL: — That sounds better, don't it? Your commission was sent three weeks ago, as I was told by...

February 18, 1865. Two-thirds of the city burned last night. The colonel and I got up last night and rode through the streets until 3. At ...

Were waked up at daylight & most of the men had made coffee when the Regt. was ordered on board the Gulf Steamer. Genl Banks, Genl Gran...

Washington, D. C. , June 18, 1865. Since my last letter we have made one more change, and the regiment now forms part of the garrison o...

Fine growing weather. The leading topic in camp is, when do we go home. Picket duty suspended. Camp guard kept up, and provost duty in tow...

All quiet since the last date. I am in the best of health, ready for duty at any time, and for any call. The general health of the regiment...

Cloudy and windy today. We are ordered to have company drill four hours a day and dress parade at 5 o'clock in the evening. This is all...

Camp South Of Strasburg , March 28, 1862. You must be expecting, by this time, to hear some account of what we have been up to for thes...

Pleasant weather again after several days of cold. Our brigade now provides the provost guard for the city, which takes each regiment down ...

I was again on provost patrol in the city, and with two others was assigned to the mule corral, the meanest place one could possibly be sta...

The Eleventh Iowa furnished the provost guard for the city, though I had to go with a picket squad. Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edite...

There is still some shaking with the ague among the boys, but the health of our regiment is gaining slowly. We have no drill in camp at pre...