Scalding heat during forenoon; heavy showers follow. Water is running through camp like a flood. Prisoners reported missing, rations suspend...

The impression is growing that the situation is more and more unfavorable every day. Hospitals are overflowing with sick and no more admitta...

I wrote off Gough's Apostrophe to Water. Small snow. John R. Goodenough, Carr and Harrison in my office telling fortunes. SOURCE: Lewi...

I dug up an Indian back of quarters and wheeled the body down to the river. I read John B. Gough's Apostrophe to Water before the crowd....

From the best information obtainable, we are led to believe the mountains and hills lying between this place and Beverly are strongly fortif...

Finished Les Miserables, Victor Hugo's grand work. What munificence of power! What eloquence! What strength! How sublime even its absurd...

To-day we have another beautiful Sabbath. The boys are engaged in cleaning up guns for inspection, and as we are not in the immediate vicini...

Camp near Orange Court House, Va., January 30, 1864. The weather has been fine recently and there have been some indications of a move. Ye...

Another pamphlet in Paris by La Guéronnière-i.e., by, or with the approval of, the Emperor has appeared. It narrows the temporal power and e...

Just finished the Duke of Buckingham's two volumes on the “ Courts and Cabinets of William IV and Victoria .” There is a curious note by...

March 2, Evening. John Quincy (Co. G) came and asked me today if I would “send up North” for a pair of spectacles for him, “for common eye...

This morning we are thirty miles from Corinth. We pass Purdy about noon, halt and feed close by, after which we move on and arrive in camp a...

CAMP RUSSELL, VIRGINIA, December 18, 1864. Sunday morning before breakfast. DEAR MOTHER: — We have as yet received no orders as to winter qu...

A pleasant and “merry Christmas.” A good dinner. Captain Nye, Lieutenants Turner and Stanley, Dr. Webb, Majors Carey, Twenty-third, and McKo...

CAMP RUSSELL NEAR WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA, December 6, 1864. DEAR MOTHER: — I received your cheerful letter on Sunday. It finds us in the best ...

Clouds and sunshine-cool. No war news except what appears in the papers. There was a rumor yesterday that several of the companies of th...

CAMP NEAR WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA, November 17, 1864. DEAREST: When I wrote last I was in some doubt whether this Valley campaign was ended o...

This morning the boys are seen wending their way to the timber to chop wood. It is very cold, and the boys are kept busy getting fuel. It sn...

Bright and warm. Read "John Phoenix.” A new tent put up in good style. Bunk and fireplace. SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, ...

To-day, in every direction, we can see the Seventh boys reading the papers (for by the way, the Seventh is a reading regiment,) and from eve...