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...

Another fine day, and another trip downstairs. My legs behaved better this time. Am not near so tired. Now that I can write without getting ...

At 12. last night the Jonnies made a charge out of their forts on the skirmish line, draw it in on the left where the 7th Vermont was statio...

ON THE RAPIDAN,           MAY 20TH, 1863. MY PRECIOUS WIFE: I am at last safely encamped with the Fourth Texas Regiment in a beautiful grov...

We mustered and had regiment inspection this afternoon. Major Peats of Co. K complimented the troops quite highly on their clean guns. The g...

Enroute. We remained quiet all day. Rained in the evening. Pitched Quartermaster's tent. Felt symptoms of the ague, felt rather bad. S...

Oxford, Miss. Awoke with an unpleasant feeling, a racking pain in back and head. Started out early, the road having frozen hard enough to be...

To be noted. Our company was declared the  cleanest  company! Consequently no guard for us to-morrow. Notwithstanding our  camp  is quite ...

I received a letter from my daughter with information that my son Amandus is much better, the fever broke & he is in a fair way to recov...

Were paid off to-day and the peddlers that hang out just across the guard line have done a thriving business. Walter gets worse every day. H...

On account of my cough, which is worse when I lie down, I have walked about evenings or sat and chatted with others about the camp fire unti...

Yesterday the chaplain's tent for public worship came and this morning we were all gathered there and the chaplain was praying, when sna...