Company went on scout. Unshod horses did not go, so I staid. SOURCE: Ephraim Shelby Dodd,  Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member of Company...

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

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...

morning clear air and bracing. Drilling from 6 to 7 O'clock. to day is Pay Day Comps. A. & E. are paid first—as they are going off o...

Early this morning we were awakened by a heavy wind storm and we had as much as we could do to keep our tents from being blown away. Sent of...

Lieut. Ellis went on a scout. I went with him. Ten men detail went down on Wilson pike, turned off to left and staid all night with Mr. Smit...

Six companies of the Seventh, and six companies of the Fiftieth Illinois Infantry, under the command of Colonel Rowett, leave Rome on a scou...

To-day companies D, H and I, leave Tunnel Hill on the cars for Tilton, where we arrive late in the night. We remain here guarding the railro...

This morning a squad of twenty men, under the command of Lieutenant Fergus, is sent out on a scout to Eastport, Tennessee river, and another...

The details are now very heavy patroling, foraging, scouting, &c.—but we live sumptuously upon what little fat of the land yet remains. ...

A cold north wind is blowing all day. This evening the regiment comes in from its expedition—cold and hungry, but we see success beaming fro...

All still to-day; a dull monotony in camp. The Seventh are now making shelter out of rails and their oil cloths, and what few boards they ca...

No. 3. Report of Lieut. Col. John S. Mosby, Forty-third Virginia Cavalry Battalion, including operations to May 1. SEPTEMBER 11, 1864. COLON...

Zollicoffer's infantry was now busily engaged blockading the gaps in Cumberland Mountain, near Jacksborough, under the direction of his ...

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

This morning Captain Ring proceeds with a detachment on a scout towards the Hatchie river, but nothing hostile being discovered, he returns ...

Last night Captain Johnson with part of the command started on a scouting expedition-has not returned yet. This evening he returns, after gi...

 This morning we receive orders to get ready for a scout; to start at four, P. M. At the appointed time our regiment, a detachment of the Th...

Harpers Ferry , July 20, 1864. Dearest : — I am here with my brigade, merely to get ammunition and grub. Have been fighting and marchin...

FORT HENRY, February 9. Gen. GRANT has just returned, with his staff, from making an extensive reconnoissance.   He had with him Cols. ...