Once more we are on the wing. Yesterday morning we were ordered to be ready to march when called on. Of course, the men do not expect to sta...

Haines Bluff. Yesterday, as I was strolling through the ravines, picking berries, I came across a spring of delicious water, cold and pure. ...

Haines Bluff, Miss.   We get no news from the outside world. Not even the New York Herald or Detroit Free Press, those blatant organs of sec...

Last Wednesday we moved from our encampment at Mound Bluff Church, and after two days' marching, came to this place, and we are now enca...

While waiting for the brigade to move, I will endeavor to write up what transpired yesterday. At about I A. M. we were aroused from sleep wi...

We are under marching orders again—ready to move at a minute's notice. The Ninth Army Corps is detached from the Army of the Potomac and...

VICKSBURG, July 6, 1863. DEAR FATHER, — Vicksburg has at last surrendered after a siege of over forty days. The surrender took place on th...

NEAR VICKSBURG, MISS., June 22 , 1863 . Maj. Gen. WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, Comdg. Fifteenth Army Corps: Information just received indicates ...

HERRON'S, June 23 , 1863 — 2 a.m. Have just taken another rifle-pit and 13 prisoners in moving up my right line of skirmishers. Will...

Near Vicksburg June 23. 1863 GEN’L HERRON: Heavy firing is reported on our left. Is it in your front? What are the indications? U. S. GRA...

[June 23 1863] You need only fire when you see something to fire at.   It is not necessary to keep up a constant fire— SOURCE: John Y. S...

ORD'S HEADQUARTERS, June 23, 1863. Pretty lively firing on my left, as if a sally. I have sent to Lauman and Hovey, if an attack occurs...

NEAR VICKSBURG, MISS., June 23, 1863. Maj. Gen. WILLIAM T. SHERMAN,           Commanding Fifteenth Army Corps: In addition to the troops wi...

AT McCALL'S, June 23 , 1863 — 11 a.m. DEAR GENERAL: Parke, with Smith's division and one brigade of his Yankee troops, is on the...

HEADQUARTERS THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS, June 24, 1863. Colonel Bush, Second Illinois Cavalry, reports, "Our pickets report that the rebels...

HERRON'S HEADQUARTERS, June 24 , 1863 . Nothing of special importance has occurred on my front since yesterday. I am still working up...

HERRON'S HEADQUARTERS, June 24 , 1863 . We had a sharp little skirmish this evening while moving farther, but succeeded in gaining th...

NEAR VICKSBURG, June 25, 1863. General ORD: McPherson secured the crater made by the explosion. The cavity made was sufficiently large to ...

[June 25, 1863.] How is McPherson doing holding his own Shall I hold men ready to move that way if so how many SOURCE: John Y. Simon, Ed...

[June 25, 1863.] A colored man got in last night from Vicksburg Started night before re [he] was servant to staff officers to Gen Lee conf...