Left Camp College Hill on a rally from Nashville to the junction of the L. R. & Gr. rail road and returned to Nashville the same day, an...

Left as an escort for General Nelson to Franklin, Tenn., from camp at the junction of the L.R. & G. rail road, and encamped at Tire Spri...

Left Franklin camp and arrived at the tunnel of the Louisville & Nashville R. R. the same day, and encamped for the night, making a marc...

Bright and windy. The following telegram was received this morning from Gen. R. E. Lee: "Gen. Johnston reports that on the 16th Gen. Ha...

Raining; rained all night. My health improving, but prudence requires me to still keep within the house. The reports of terrific fighting ...

Our camp yesterday was enlivened by the joyful news that we had orders to take the cars for some unknown destination, and it is generally be...

Chester.—I have borne the journey thus far well, and as the railroad stops here, the rest having been destroyed by Sherman's army, we wi...

Reached the "City of the Falls" in the night. Left the boat about six this morning, took a hasty breakfast at the “National,” then...

Another hard night; one of a few very cold and disagreeable ones. We left the ranks early for rails, and after carrying them two or three mi...

GOLDSBORO. There was no time this morning to cook coffee, so we started on a cold-water breakfast, after another cold night, with little g...

Left Wartrace and arrived at Duck river the same day as guard for rail road bridges and fortifications there, and encamped for the night at ...

Awakened by the guard at 4 a. m.; at daylight go on the street receiving a small day's ration, the fourth issue since our capture. Rain ...

Arrive at Columbia, S. C., at dawn. The night passed disagreeably. Although our destiny is prison, men are impatient at delays, growl at ...

Arrived at Augusta, Ga., at daylight, one of the nicest towns of its size in the South; the home of Alexander H. Stephens, long celebrated a...

Another night cramped up on the cars; another night of painful nipping at napping amidst the roar, the heat and jogging of the train. Everyb...

ATLANTA, GA., Nov. 7th, 1864. The last train for the North leaves here to-morrow morning. Our soldiers are scattered along the railroad a ...

Relay House Station, on the Northern Central R. R. Just where that is I haven't yet found out. We stood up or laid down in the street fr...

Orders got too strict for my candle and I had to put it out. We made so much noise that the doors were shut on us finally and we were in pit...

Well, I have had a good sleep, if I did have a hard time getting it. Our cornstalk bed which promised so well, did not prove so. The stalks ...

Enroute. To-day we were informed that we were to be sent on in the evening. I wrote my first letter home and in the evening we started for ...