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...

I am unwell so that I did not drill it is the first day that I have not been with the Company 36 soldiers to dinner with us & 4 not sold...

10 Oc Miss Claudear Stratton & my Daughter presented our Comp with a Beautifull flag the Ladies of Centerville made for us. at 20 min pa...

ARRIVAL HOME AGAIN. By the loud cheering and blowing off of steam in the direction of New Berne, we knew the boys had arrived. The regimen...

Left camp at 6 o'clock. Roads in a terrible condition, mud knee deep, marching almost impossible; artillery stuck in the road, wagons in...

Meeting to-day. Chaplain Parker preached. He asked those who would stop swearing to hold up their hands, and so far as I could see every han...

The morning of the sixth dawns beautifully, but upon a field of death-a field of blood; but thanks be to God, it dawns with the old flag tri...

The train carrying the Seventh is now near Springfield; soon we expect to meet a grateful people, who have already been informed of the hour...

No. 240. Report of Maj. Gen. Henry D. Clayton, C. S. Army, commanding division, of operations November 20-December 27, 1864. MAJOR: I have t...

Little Washington is on Tar River, and as one of the Yankee gunboats was trying to get in, one of our cannon gave them a ball, which caused ...

Firing at intervals all day. The reserve was sent to the river to support our artillery. The colors went with them. It is raining hard. We l...

[O]ur regiment receives a new stand of colors. The colors we carried through the battles of Fort Donelson and Shiloh are now so mutilated th...

It is reported to-day that Price has been beaten, and is now making a flank movement towards Corinth. Soon we are ordered to Corinth, and th...

WOODSTOCK, VIRGINIA, September 23, 1864. DEAREST:- We fought the enemy again (yesterday] at Fisher's Hill near Strasburg. They had for...

Oh! what a terrible scene does Shiloh's field present this morning. It is a scene of death; its victims lay everywhere. The blood of abo...

Martinsburg , July 17 (Sunday), 1864. Dearest : — A week ago, about this time, we were enjoying our pleasant ride like young lovers on ...

Last night was a doleful night as the soldiers laid in this wilderness by the Tennessee. All night long there was a chilling rain, and the ...

January 2, 1863. . . . I did not observe any reporters at our barbecue yesterday, but I presume some of the journals will contain enoug...

It is now move ing [ sic ]—a beautiful Sabbath morning. The dews have gone to heaven and the stars have gone to God; the sky is all inlaid ...

January 1, 1863 This is the evening of the most eventful day of my life. Our barbecue was a most wonderful success. Two steamboats came...