Dr. Andrus is going to-day. He says I ought not to think of leaving here yet. But he does not forbid it, so if I get a chance I shall try it...

Our Company messed of in 5 messes this day we have all been on mess duty till now. we drew shoes for our boys this day & not before they...

Cold and blustery. Mending shoes, 25c. SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson,  Diary of Lewis C. Paxson: Stockton, N.J., 1862-1865 , p. 7

CAMP 15 MILES NORTH OF JACKSON, MISS.—Another month has passed away since my last writing—a month big with events in the history of the Fort...

Slept the greater portion of the day—had no "roll call"—feet much blistered and unable to wear shoes, consequently the hot, broili...

While I cannot sign the bills as rapidly as Nannie Giles can, today I finished up four packages of the denomination of fifty dollars. Mr. Te...

Our first morning in camp. We were rudely awakened and dragged from our bunks at six o’clock, very few being used to such early hours, excep...

We received our socks, pants, drawers and shoes. Did not get our guns. We encamped in tents, ate our supper just at dark. SOURCE: Lewis C....

Last night we tied up at the mouth of Red river, and this morning found our boat aground; but, after several hours' work, got her safely...

Cloudy, and thawing rapidly. All quiet below. The bill to employ 40,000 negroes, as recommended by the President, for army purposes, thoug...

Camp near Orange Court House, Va., September 1, 1863 . We still remain quiet in our old camp, with no sign of an enemy anywhere. I see no ...

No. 248. Report of Col. Ellison Capers, Twenty-fourth South Carolina Infantry, of operations September 29-December 2, 1864. CHARLESTON, S.C...

Charlestown, Jefferson County, W. Va.,           September 24, 1862. I have not written to you in three or four weeks, because there has b...

Berryville, Clark County, Va . ,           November 13, 1862 . Our brigade is now camped in the suburbs of Berryville and is doing picket ...

The roads are so bad that it is hard work to trudge along. I stuck in the mud several times, and lost one shoe in a mud hole, but of course ...

Col. Rains had learned that Col. Brown, who was in command of the Home Guards that had fled to Wildcat the evening before, lived some two or...

CAMP WILDCAT, October 2, 1861. General GEORGE H. THOMAS: Since General Carter arrived we have been over considerable country. The general ...

This morning the order is to take the backward track to Corinth. As our supplies are running short the command is now on half rations. The S...

March 14, 1865. It is supposed we will be here two or three days, to get some shoes up the river. SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills,  Army Li...

Two miles from left bank of Black River, N. C., March 16, 1865. About 14 miles to-day. About a dozen swamps, as many showers, three hard rai...