Wednesday, and our duties have commenced again: regular camp routine,—drill, guard, and police, the same as before the last march. We are ...

An active man would soon go mad if he were confined in Cairo. A mudbank stretching along the course of a muddy river is not attractive to a...

December 14, 1864 General Winthrop [in speaking of Warren's operations] said his brigade bivouacked in a cornfield; it blew, snowed...

November 19, 1864 The rain continued, being cold, by way of variety, and from the northeast; whereby it happened that we got no mail. B...

August 6, 1864 I took a limited ride along our flank defences, where I discovered a patriotic sentry, sitting with his back to where th...

Fortress Monroe, May 31st, 1861. Dear L., — Thanks for your kind letter and the hamper. I saw Gen. Butler at Washington. He invited me ...