We are having an easy time so far, excepting for the cold weather. We have no guard or drill as yet; a part of the 27th M. V. do provost dut...

We managed to get clear of the Roanoke river some time in the night, but ran aground in the Sound at noon, thinking we were opposite Roanoke...

The weather is now fine & the roads are drying up. Troops are coming into the City and crossing over the River. Rumors afloat of fightin...

Morning ground covered with snow & sleet. damp ugly day. tore down our church for wood. Busy all day with Returns. 4 transports up Ark r...

The conflict is deepening; but thanks to God, there is no wavering, no division, now, at the North! All are united, as one man; and from a p...

Haines Bluff, Miss.   We arrived at our old camp yesterday—twenty days from the time we left it—the toughest twenty days of our experience. ...

Five companies of the Twenty-third Ohio and five companies of the Ninth Ohio arrived to-day, and are encamped in a maple grove about a mile ...

A death on board last night. The guns are being taken off the Cumberland and Congress by divers. Lieutenant Colonel Smith let himself out to...

A bright pleasant day. No particular news, but many rumors of fighting West. I have been in the office, am there every day filling out Paten...

It is stated that the embalmed remains of the President’s son would leave for Springfield, after the funeral at the White House. SOURCE: “...

Clear and pleasant. Walked to the department. We have vague and incoherent accounts from excited couriers of fighting, without result, in Di...

Another bright and beautiful day. I walked around the burnt district this morning. Some seven hundred houses, from Main Street to the cana...

Bright and pleasant. Stayed with my next door neighbors at their request last night—all females. It was quiet; and so far the United State...

Bright and beautiful. Rev. Mr. Dashiell called, after services. The prayer for the President was omitted, by a previous understanding. Rev...

Quite warm beautiful day. hear Lt Sis no better. disease Pnumonia, Rumors (?) of fighting near Ft Smith and boats captured SOURCE: “Diary ...

[Special Dispatch to the Charleston Courier.] WASHINGTON, December 27, 7 P. M.—Secretary FLOYD says positively that he knows nothing offic...

After the stage arrived on yesterday evening, I learned that it had come from only about fifty miles below and is not going to Alexandria an...

Quite sore from chopping and rolling cotton. Our Colonel, Amos Norton, is Commander of the Post, and Rats is provost-marshal, Col. Smith com...

Rienzi. We were aroused this morning with the same story of march and ordered to cook three days' rations and be ready to march at 1 P. ...

We are having another kind of excitement to-day. Boxes are flooding the barracks; the "Express" and "Torpedo" having bro...