Morning a fiew boys ventured on the ice some broke in. the day was mild & the snow melted fast, & the mud is in great abundance, at ...

I was on drill in bayonet exersize but I feel feeble with great indifference about moving around I recd a letter from my Daughter dated 19th...

A number of our regiment went to preaching in Fulton. News coming to church that the Federals were not far off, and moving in the direction ...

Prince of Wales. Papers full of his movements— ad nauseam . He is in hot water just now with the Orangemen of Upper Canada, whom he refuses ...

A Mild and pleasant day but I think people feel much like wearing sackcloth and observing the day as recommended. There has been services at...

It has been a fine winter day. M. this morning stood at 12. Went to church with wife and boys. Heard a Mr Black of Covington K.Y. a near rel...

Another wet misty day. Splashy sidewalks and mudy crossings. Letter from Frank today through Cha s  dated Fort Kearney, N.T., attached to th...

Cooler today, and quite windy, but did not freeze till night. Did not go to church today. Took care of the house while the rest of the famil...

Very warm day. Attended Dr Brown's Church in the morning      After tea called at Mr Ridgelys, and went to Mr Jennings Church at night ...

Quincy.   Took tea last evening at Mr Strother Browning's in Springfield At 6 Oclock this morning took the cars for home, and arrived at...

At Church A. M. & P. M. Warm day. SOURCE:  The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning , Vol. 1, p. 418

"Despise not these  Squatters ." The bill to encourage agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and all other branches of industry, ...

Norton. Am I glad for trials, for disappointments, for opportunities for self-sacrifice, for everything God sends? Ah! indeed I do not know!...

Is it always selfish to yield to depression? Can one help it, if the perspective of a coming year of lonely labor seems very long? No. I sha...

George Fox's journal is a leaf from a strange chapter of the world's history: from the history of religion. If a plain man should co...

Looking out on the clouds at sunset, the thought of God as constantly evolving beauty from His own being into all created forms, struck me f...

Attended service in dining hall. Chaplain S. officiated, and spoke very well. At the close I gave him the message sent by two sick men in my...

One man, this morning, while I was taking the name of one who had just died, to write to his friends, told me that people throughout the who...

Went out in an ambulance with Rev. Dr. D., Mr. E. and Mrs. H., Iowa State Agent, to hear the first named gentleman preach to a portion of th...

Camp Warren, Sept. 15th, 1861 It is now a little more than a week since I was with you, Although it is but a short time It seems to me abo...