A cold rain continued during the night. What would the good folks at home say could they see this camp this cool, wet morning—men lying in t...

we got to our camp clost to Richmond SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone,  The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone,  p. 20

we went back in about a mile and a half of Richmond and staid thar all night SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone,  The Diary of Bartlett Yancey...

As beautiful a spring morning as ever dawned since the sun spread its glorious light over the Garden of Eden. Cannon is heard at intervals...

Clear and warm. Apricots in blossom. At last we have reliable information that Johnston has checked one of Sherman's columns, at Bentonv...

Charlotte, N. C.—We barely escaped with the skin of our teeth! The flight from Richmond was even more hasty and exciting than the exodus fro...

Newberry.—Lise and Ernestine are long since home, but my dear friends here will not listen to my leaving until I have grown stronger. I do n...

Awakened by the guard at 4 a. m.; at daylight go on the street receiving a small day's ration, the fourth issue since our capture. Rain ...

Bright and pleasant. The reports of the army of Sheridan (mostly mounted infantry) being within a few miles of the city were at least prem...

Bright and pleasant, but indications of change. The papers contain no news from the armies, near or remote. But there was some alarm in the ...

On the 20th, prior to leaving Morrisville, Colonel Rowett, who was wounded at Allatoona, returns to the regiment. Never was a colonel's ...

On the morning of the 10th we move towards Richmond. For some cause unknown we do not enter the city, but are ordered into camp three miles ...

My head aches; I have no appetite (and nothing fit to eat, either); my senses are dull. Heaven grant I may not be ill in Richmond! At this p...

Mr. Duncan brings us the weightiest news. The Confederacy is going to the dogs—or, did he say the devil? That young lieutenant was right. We...

Feel better today. Mr. Connelly gave us a collation in the hotel in lieu of the abandoned picnic. Very swell, despite the blockade. Must hav...

Cloudy and cool; rained all night. No news from the South, this morning. But there is an ugly rumor that Beauregard's men have deserted ...

Ballard House, Richmond.—We have taken Richmond, if the Yankees haven't! Yes, we are here; but had some trouble to get settled. The fash...

Oh! the seduction, the novelty, the fascination of this life in Richmond! If patriotism is its master-chord, pleasure is no less its dominan...

We are under marching orders again—ready to move at a minute's notice. The Ninth Army Corps is detached from the Army of the Potomac and...

cool and cloudy but no rain and I hurd today that we had to march back to Richmond SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone,  The Diary of Bartlett ...