Have been paid off; $24.70 I got, and we all went ashore and washed up. The bunks on the Arago have been used so long by so many that they a...

The sun rose clear this morning, and the air is just right. Our lower regions are hot and stuffy, but on deck it is delightful. Great birds,...

This is really Thanksgiving day. So by my mistaking Tuesday for it I really have two holidays. The men are ashore for a Thanksgiving sermon....

Lots of sick men to-day. I am better and was on duty again. Had only to attend sick-call and take the men to the doctor. There were only six...

Froze a little last night but has thawed in the sun all day. Went out to church with wife and boys. Chaplin Booth of the 5 th  Reg t  Sickel...

Willie Lincoln, the son of the President, who has been very ill for several days is much improved. SOURCE: “Severe Illness of the Presiden...

Splendid weather. Lt Sharman quite ill and in our qtrs. Reported (?) Shelby on the Ark river above here. I. N. Ritner dies in Hosp. Battalai...

I left Rusk on the morning of the 16th on a six passenger coach; there were  fourteen  aboard; the driver was skillful and the road good; I ...

I spent a very uncomfortable night; a dull, steady pain all night; had taken twenty drops of laudanum; had no matches and did not wish to di...

I was asleep the greater part of last night, but cannot call it rest. Oh! those hideous dreams which haunted me. I went to a market on Bridg...

Marching orders, sure enough. We drew three days' rations this morning, with orders to have two cooked and in our haversacks, ready to m...

Rienzi. To-day I felt very weak, there was no local pain, but a general debility. SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd Jones,  An Artilleryman's Diary...

Left Petersburg this morning for Suffolk. Was quite ill on the train, and when I reached Suffolk, had to take my bed. Heard to-day of the ac...

Have been confined to my bed for two days with chills and fever. The Suffolk people are very kind to our sick. SOURCE: William S. White,  ...

We have had several cases of fever lately, occasioned, it is said, by malaria from the lower swamps in the neighborhood. We have one slough ...

A cold rain continued during the night. What would the good folks at home say could they see this camp this cool, wet morning—men lying in t...

Four days I have been ill. Among new men bloody flux and dysentery prevail; this is my trouble. I am better today; a fine breeze lifts me. F...

Have sent home my diary and am beginning another. I must be more brief, for the great mass just sent off covers but little ground and will t...

Something has happened. Last night, just as we were settling down for the night, orders came for a move. Dr. Andrus came round looking us ov...

Rained last night nearly all night, this morning it is cold gloomy and disagreeable No inspection this morning on account of the inclemency ...