Roll call as usual at 5½ O'clock Inspection of men & tents at 9 o'clock by the Col. & Lt. Col Pass granted to 8 men to visit...

Clear and fine. Roll call at 5½ A. M. as usual-Breakfast at 6½ Squad drill &c. more activity will be observed this week in drilling than...

Monday morning. Our first night in Baltimore is over. We had roll-call, to see if we were all here, and then spread our blankets on the grou...

AT READVILLE. A busy day for Co. E we have been ordered to camp. Each man was told to carry rations enough for two meals. We formed compan...

Our first morning in camp. We were rudely awakened and dragged from our bunks at six o’clock, very few being used to such early hours, excep...

Received two letters to-day, one from home and one from my brother Pincus, who went to Washington on his way to visit Morris and myself, as ...

HUDSON CAMP GROUNDS. I have enlisted! Joined the Army of Uncle Sam for three years, or the war, whichever may end first. Thirteen dollars pe...

NED CARTER THE BLACKSMITH. When I first came here I was pretty well used up, but thanks to my friends, Garland of company C and Wheelock a...

This morning the dark overhanging clouds are threatening rain. The Seventh are ordered to quarter themselves in the few scattering houses ye...

The boys of the 20th left at Vicksburg joined our regiment to-day. We were very anxious to hear how the siege was progressing, and, to our s...

January 13, 1863. . . . When I sit down at evening it always seems as if there could be but one subject to write upon, the music of the...

After roll call earned a breakfast by chopping wood. Made a good fire. Drew a load of bricks from the country. Many of the boys are sufferi...

Charge of picket. This morning failed to get out at roll call. Did not hear the bugle. My first failure since I have been an officer in the...

Unsaddled after roll call. Pretty early orders came to fall back at noon. Cos. C and E with Col. Purington, Majs. Seward and Nettleton went...

Ninth. — Papers of the 6th give me much pleasure. The dashing move of the ram “Queen of the West,” the gallant fight of our soldiers at Cor...

Several men from Alabama arrived here to-day with their backs beaten blue. We caught another spy last night. The drums rolled last night at...

Cairo. The bells are just ringing for church. I intended going, but it is such hard work getting out of camp that I concluded to postpone i...

Genl Inspection at 9 A. M. co come in at 11, an extra Roll call was ordered by Genl Benton at 1. P. M all absentees to be reported to Div H...

camp Near Winchester, Virginia , March 21, 1862. If you had looked upon our camp at sunrise reveill é , this morning, you would have se...

Camp near Chesterfield Station. . . . My home is in a wild pine grove and sweetest melancholy, poesy's child, keeps watch and ward ...