April 17. Last night our Colonel forgot the importance of his present position and visited the wreck of the George Washington. He saw how ...

April 21. I have today conversed with the extraordinary colored man, Peter Burns, who brought off one hundred and thirty-two persons with ...

April 30. Tomorrow I am to be blessed by taking into my employment, York Brown. The old man has been nurse in the hospital during the last...

May 22. After all it seems the doubters are justified; Hooker is on the wrong side of the Rappahannock. But you will be glad to know that ...

CAMP SAXTON, BEAUFORT, S. C., April 2, 1863. Evening. Such is the management here that my notes no longer date from satisfactory advance p...

April 7. Some of you can imagine how heartily I enjoyed the morning gallop from station to station, to look after our soldiers. They endur...

April 12. Should one inquire for my health tonight, I might adopt the reply of a soldier yesterday: "Not superior, thank God." A...

No. 1. Report of Brig. Gen. Rufus Saxton, U.S. Army, commanding District of Beaufort, S.C. BEAUFORT, S.C., April 9 , 1863 . COLONEL: ...

No. 2. Report of Col. Joseph R. Hawley, Seventh Connecticut Infantry. HEADQUARTERS U.S. FORCES,           Hilton Head, S.C., April 10 , ...

March 25, 2.30, P. M. Three quarters of an hour ago I was dreaming pleasantly of a prayer meeting, when a rebel bombshell burst somewhere ...

No. 1. Report of Brig. Gen. Rufus Saxton, U. S. Army. BEAUFORT, S.C., March 14 , 1863 .  SIR: I have the honor to report that the exp...

February 25, 1863. This afternoon our regiment was reviewed by Gen. Saxton in the presence of Gen. Hunter. The staff and body guards of th...

February 7, 1863. Emerson and Thoreau are oftener in my mind, in connection with this camp life and these people, than any other writers I...

February 5. Lieut. [James B.] O'Neil informed me today that during the eight years of his military life in Texas, Utah and in the presen...

February 7, 1863. . . . Emerson and Thoreau are oftener in my mind, in connection with this camp life and these people, than any other wri...

CAMP SAXTON, BEAUFORT, S. C., February 3, 1863. At break of day we were at Beaufort and my sick and wounded were being carefully conveyed to...

January 21, Evening. Great days seem natural to us now. General Hunter has reviewed our regiment with Gen. Saxton, and the Colonel's lon...

January 9, 1863. This morning, the adjutant and I, with eight oarsmen, went down to Hilton Head in our surf boat. The distance cannot b...

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...

January 1, 1863 This is the evening of the most eventful day of my life. Our barbecue was a most wonderful success. Two steamboats came...