Duties as usual performed. no Officers drill this morning as was given out last evening on Dress Parade Abut 10 O'clock to day one of th...

It snowed again last night, but this morning the sky is clear; the clouds have disappeared, and the sunlight is seen again on the Cumberland...

Brig. General Prentiss, and Colonels Oglesby and Paine, visit the camp of the Seventh, addressing the men upon the subject of re-enlisting....

Near Big Shanty, Ga., June 10, 1864. Army moved this a. m. Found the enemy again at this place, and have been in line of battle a dozen...

Decatur, Ill., September 6, 1863. Girls, fun, etc., have lost their charm, and I've made up my mind to go back to my regiment. Reas...

Decatur, Ill., August 31, 1863. The general stopped me here and insists on keeping me for a time. Major Wait's resignation, which w...

Jackson, Tenn., June 26, 1863. Such splendid weather — nice, fresh breezes ruffling the leaves on the trees all the day long—and plenty...

Lagrange, Tenn., June 19, 1863. The general and Sam went to Memphis yesterday to visit General Hurlbut, and the major and I have charge...

Headquarters, Left Wing 16th Army Corps, Lagrange, Tenn., June 7, 1863. We had occupied our very pleasant quarters but two days whe...

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Lagrange, Tenn., May 7, 1863. Isn't the Grierson "raid" glorious? Two other expeditions st...

Verily I would be sooner in the Coptic Cairo, narrow streeted, dark bazaared, many flied, much vexed by donkeys and by overland route passe...

When I awoke this morning and, gazing out of my little window on the regiments parading on the level below me, after an arduous struggle to...

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Jackson, Tenn., February 1, 1863. I'm on duty as “field officer of the day,” and have been temping a...

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, La Grange, Tenn., November 21, 1862. Every one seems to think that we will start about day after to-morr...

Tuscumbia, Ala., August 28, 1862. The order has been issued requiring battalion adjutants to be mustered out of the service, but Colone...

Tuscumbia, Ala., August 14, 1862. Things are progressing here swimmingly. Seldom have more than two bridges burned in the same night, o...

Near New Madrid, Mo. , March 6, 1862. What oceans of fun we are having here. Here goes for all of it to date, and I'll be lucky if ...

Bird's Point, Mo ., December 11, 1861. Our cavalry brought in 16 prisoners to-night, about 10 last night; a band of Thompson's ...

Bird's Point, Mo. , November 24, 1861. Sabbath morning, 10 o'clock. I'm in clover. I've got a great big “comfort,” we...

Cape Girardeau , November 11, 1861. We have just arrived here after a week's absence from any sign of civilized life. Saturday the ...