Thank Heaven, we can soon move out of the city, having received orders to go into camp near division headquarters, Weather very bad, rain an...

Left camp on the 16th on a scout to hunt up Blythe's forces. Orders came upon us suddenly to prepare two days rations and go in light ma...

This is the fourth day that Captain Cunard's company has been lying in the woods, three miles from camp, guarding an important road, alt...

We marched seven miles this morning, and, while resting several hours, cleaned out a corn-field near by. Started again, and again halted to ...

Started at half-past seven, marched about two miles, went into camp in the woods, stopped two days and two nights. The roads were so muddy t...

The infantry was at work all day, corduroying the roads for the army to go back. SOURCE: John Lord Parker,  Henry Wilson's Regiment: H...

Left Parker's Bluff at 2 o'clock; roads very muddy and one balky horse to contend with. The driver insisted that he would do very we...

After some trouble we managed to get to bed last night about eleven o'clock; but for a long time after that the mules kept us awake; per...

We encamped in a corn field last night, completely exhausted; in the middle of the night it commenced to rain but I slept through it until I...

This morning we are ordered from our camp at three o'clock; it soon commences to rain very hard; the old North Carolina clay roads soon ...

Started out at nine A.M. Marched twelve miles. Roads were very muddy. SOURCE: John Lord Parker,  Henry Wilson's Regiment: History of t...

Started on our march to Memphis. Quimby's [ sic ] division are to guard a train of 600 empty wagons. The day's march was a terrible ...

Marched at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Weather beautiful; roads better. SOURCE: Joseph Stockton,  War Diary (1862-5) of Brevet Brigadi...

Struck tents early in the morning. Orders came in the night for Sanborn's brigade to move out on the Memphis & Charleston Road to es...

The Ninth and Fourth Ohio, Fifteenth Indiana, and one company of cavalry, started up the mountain between seven and eight o'clock. The C...

We move early this morning; our Division is moving by itself upon a lone road, General Corse having orders to move across the country and fo...

Started from White Plains at half-past six, passed through New Baltimore, and went into camp three miles from Warrenton. The roads being cov...

Encamped in the woods after a march of eight miles; roads terrible, marching very hard. SOURCE: Joseph Stockton,  War Diary (1862-5) of Br...

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

Passing on through Athens, we went into camps about two miles beyond. Distance from Fayetteville, Tennessee, to Athens, Alabama, thirty-eigh...