At daylight a man shot and instantly killed. He had no particular stopping place, had become partially crazed; in the night had crept beyond...

Recent improvements in camp are timbers laid across the swamp on the west side north of the stream for 20 rods, this will help escape the fi...

FORT PIERCE, F., Oct. 11, 1841. My Dear Brother: *           *           *           *           *           *           *           *    ...

Prostrated with severe pains, chills and fever which lasted most of the night. Getting a small piece of beef and rice in lieu of meal we hav...

Left Raleigh about 9 o'clock yesterday morning. The road from Raleigh to Weldon is the most crooked and through the most broken country ...

Corn bread, as served here, is to me what a single feather was to Paddy's head on a rock and what he thought more would be if supplied. ...

The U. S. surgeon from the Marine Hospital has been on board looking us over. Found only four diseases, measles, scurvy, typhoid fever and j...

Northeast storm badly affects weak men. I know of twenty who since yesterday have sunk to utter helplessness; others have died within a few ...

Still at our camp of the 6th inst., with plenty of wood and abundance of good spring and lake water; no improvement in the rations. Yesterda...

After the fall of Fort McAllister, we obtain some supplies, but for the seventy thousand hungry soldiers they soon run out. For the last wee...

This morning we walk through the Seventh's camp, and everywhere we see the men with their clubs hulling out rice; this is all they have,...

I have allowed a huge gap to occur in this Diary, for which I can offer a poor excuse. I have been sick with head-ache for about three weeks...

Yesterday I was on guard for the first time since I went soldiering. I cannot say that I particularly like the fun, but it gives one an oppo...

MARCH 13, 1850. The hallucination that seizes the South on the subject of slavery, is, indeed, enough to excite our compassion; but an exc...

Camp near Orange Court House, Va., January 16, 1864. The army is filling up with conscripts, absentees and others, and if we get also the ...

Camp near Orange Court House, Va., September 1, 1863 . We still remain quiet in our old camp, with no sign of an enemy anywhere. I see no ...

Bright and beautiful. Some firing was heard early this morning on the Darbytown road, or in that direction; but it soon ceased, and no fig...

Hot and dry. Rumors of a fight down the river yesterday, driving the enemy from Deep Bottom, and grounding of the Richmond. Guns were hear...

ALBERTI's Mills, 40 miles from FERNANDINA. January 30, 1863.  This river is rebellious to the last degree. It is very crooked and slug...

It is warm to-day, and cloudy; but there was ice early in the morning. We have recaptured twenty-odd of the escaped prisoners.  A bill has p...