SIEGE AT WASHINGTON. It has rained nearly all this week, and until yesterday we have been loafing, trying to kill time. Last night our com...

(EXTRACT.) Marshfield, September 28, 1851. MY DEAR SIR, — I heard with great pleasure of your arrival at Washington in safety and good healt...

Freezing in the shade Icesicles to our cabbin eves 18 inches to 2 ft long the ponds of water covered with thin ice, forenoon snowing moderat...

Ice on the ponds in Helena is barely sufficient to beare up a man & some are sliding & occasionally one breaks in & gets wet, so...

Morning a fiew boys ventured on the ice some broke in. the day was mild & the snow melted fast, & the mud is in great abundance, at ...

My back is yet suffering I fear it is rheumatism Our Capt TM Fee has gone out with a squad of men on picket his first adventure here SOURC...

My back is not much better Evening Capt TM Fee & 1 took a little tramp, & visited the fine former residence of the Rebble Brig Genl ...

I am suffering with pain in my back, I dobed some on our cabbin & visited Genl Washburns Head Quarters in the Rebble Brig Genl Tappans h...

Morning cold the mud froze so it bears a man up, The Cavilry took a skout yesterday afternoon & about 200 of them went out to a Rebble b...

I am suffering with pains in all my bones & am indifference to moving when seated We drilled some in bayonet exersize, the volts; passad...

We are not studying so much as we  were . The General's grasp has relaxed, and he does not hold us with a tight reign and stiff bit any ...

Captain Bostwick came to see me to-day. Two men died last night, one in the hospital and the other in his tent. I don't feel as well to-...

Think I am really better to-day. If I keep on I'll soon be out of this and with the boys again. But they all come in to see the sick as ...

I have been very sick. This is the first time I have felt able to make a mark with a pencil. I was taken in the night, after the day I thoug...

Don't feel quite so smart as I did. This getting well is slow business. SOURCE:  Lawrence Van Alstyne,  Diary of an Enlisted Man , p. ...

Not feeling so good these last few days. SOURCE:  Lawrence Van Alstyne,  Diary of an Enlisted Man , p. 90

Ben Crowther is awful sick. He is a fine fellow and we hate to lose him. He is of better stuff than the average of us. I wish I could kill h...

Too much excitement yesterday and I feel like two weeks ago. The doctor says I will have these setbacks though and it is only a part of the ...

Orderly Holmes is very sick. His discharge is under his pillow (or knapsack). He lies in a room next to this and I can hear him talk, giving...

Have been downstairs. My legs just made out to get me there and back. Will they ever get strong again? But I am getting there, slow but sure...