Left Petersburg last evening with a force of some 1,000 or 1,200 men, on a scouting expedition into Prince George county, where the Federals...

McKnight's Company went on a scout toward Bay Spring. They brought no news of interest. SOURCE: Richard R. Hancock, Hancock's Diar...

I was detailed on fatigue this morning. The detail from our regiment worked on the big break in the levee. We did a good day's work, and...

A scout went out to Burnsville and learned that one hundred and five Federal cavalry had been there the evening before. So all except the pi...

McKnight's Company went on a scout up the Tuscumbia road, but brought back no news of interest. SOURCE: Richard R. Hancock, Hancock...

The opinion seems to be growing that the rebels do not intend to attack us. They have put it off too long. A scouting party will start out...

Squadron went on scout. I went to shop and on bread detail. SOURCE: Ephraim Shelby Dodd,  Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member of Company ...

To-day we felt our way up the valley eight miles, but did not reach the rebels. To-night our pickets were sure they heard firing off in th...

The scouting party sent out this morning were conveyed by wagons six miles up the valley, and were to take to the mountains, half a mile bey...

Beautiful day—Scout starts out lines closed. SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, Thirty-Third Iowa Infantry,” Annals of Iowa , Vo...

Worked in office. Scouting party went out. I bought two pounds of white sugar, 50c. SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson,  Diary of Lewis C. Paxson: St...

Came to Vernon and camped. I went out and got some fodder and made beds, but did not get to enjoy it long. Bout 1 o'clock started and ca...

On the 5th instant a scouting party, under Captain Lawson, started for Middle Fork bridge, a point eighteen miles from camp. At eight o'...

Left Camp Mount Pleasant and got back to our old camp General Moorhead, at Columbia, Tenn., making a march of 11 miles. Return of a grand sc...

The scout that was sent out in the direction of Burkesville on the 15th returned to camps. They reported that three or four regiments of Fed...

The Noble Ellis had come down from Mill Springs and commenced loading, when we left and returned to camp. Another scout of about one hundr...

Ere it is light the bugle is sounded, and after hastily dispatching our breakfast, we move on our way. All along the road to-day we encounte...

Colonel McNairy sent a scout of sixty men out in the direction of London yesterday, and on returning last night four of Captain Horn's c...

The swamps and bottoms along the Tuscumbia and the Hatchie rivers are now being thoroughly scouted. The guerrillas are finding their favorit...

After traveling briskly all morning we arrive at Trenton on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. We notice that here too war's scourge has been...