The time for the last two weeks has been used up with drill, quinine, and getting ready for the ball last night. It was ahead of anything ye...

Inspection of arms to-day and a sermon by the chaplain. We are thinking and talking of the letters we will get when we have a mail. Uncle Sa...

Crab Orchard, Ky. We arrived at 10 a. m., making ten miles from Lancaster this morning. Crab Orchard is a lovely town of about one thousand ...

Drill, drill, all day, for a change. Our band has received the new pieces from Boston, and is now expected to shine. Among our many visitors...

Last Wednesday Miss O. and myself visited Hospital No. 1, for the second time. They were just robing one young boy in his soldier's su...

We have had several cases of fever lately, occasioned, it is said, by malaria from the lower swamps in the neighborhood. We have one slough ...

Our Captain, Robert C. Stanard, died to-day at Camp Deep Creek, of disease contracted in the army. He was a man of warm impulses and generou...

Am now living splendid; vegetable diet is driving off the scurvy and dropsy, in fact the dropsy has dropped out but the effect remains. Set...

Am decidedly better and getting quite an appetite but can get nothing but broth, gruel, &c. Mouth very bad. Two or three teeth have com...

Headquarters,  U. S. Forces En Route To F. Monroe , July 12th, 1862. My dear Mother: When I wrote you a few hurried, peevish line...

14th. Still on shipboard but near Fortress Monroe. Lilly's wedding day. Miles of friends — little children's voices — church be...

Took a blue pill and three quinine powders during the day. Kept very quiet. Went to bed early and rested well. Still did my usual duties. L...

Wrote short letters home and to Fannie. Cleared up about noon. Bought a pack of envelopes and a little Candy. Moved camp up on the hill to ...

Have been a little feverish (typhoid) for a day or two; took dose of quinine last night. Arthur came down to-day. He is pretty well. ...

Pretty miserable this morning Left at twenty minutes past five for Baltimore Good night's sleep. Plenty of quinine has kept off fever s...

Camp Near Seneca , November 19, 1861. By every rule of gratitude, after receiving father's long and cheerful letter this morning, t...

July 30, 1864 My spirits to-night are not very high; our project of attack, which in the beginning promised well, has not been a succes...

Camp E. Of Capitol , May 23, 1863. E. wrote me an account of your flag presentation and sent the speeches: I suppose the responsibility...

Headquarters District Of South Alabama, Fort Gaines, Ala ., May 26, 1865. You had received my recountal of our narrow escape from per...