No. 17. Report of Col. John T. Smith, Thirty-first Indiana Infantry, of operations December 15-30, 1864. HDQRS. THIRTY-FIRST REGIMENT IN...

No. 16. Report of Capt. Andrew M. Pollard, Thirty-eighth Illinois Infantry, of operations November 30-December 31, 1864. HDQRS. THIRTY-E...

The whole command stood to arms from revelie until daybreak.      troops in the rifle pits too.       at 9.15 the column moves out at 10. we...

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...

Every thing went on quite smoothly until 9 o'clock A.M., when, to our surprise, the enemy ceased firing entirely. The cause was soon mad...

We advance early this morning. The Seventh are soon deployed on the skirmish line, and are soon skirmishing, for on such occasions the Seven...

DUNN'S HILL, September 17 , 1864 . At daylight yesterday the enemy's skirmish line west of the Jerusalem plank road was driven ba...

 I REJOIN MY REGIMENT. About a week ago my brigade, Gen. Stannard commanding, left the trenches and was ordered into camp at Cobb's Hi...

One and one-half miles from Neuse River, March 20, 1865. We moved about a mile north and then west for five miles. Pushed some Rebel cavalry...

February 16, 1865, 7 a. m. The Johnnies shelled our bivouac all night, but hurt no one, but induced us to extinguish our fires, and killed...

Nine miles from Atlanta, two and one-half miles southwest of railroad crossing, July 9, 1864. On the evening of the 7th, just dark, a...

June 18, 1864. It rained steadily until 4 p. m. and had hardly ceased a minute when our guns opened and the skirmish lines joined issue...

Monday, May 30, 1864. At dark last night I was put in charge of our brigade skirmish line of four companies; by 9:30 I had everything a...

Near Dallas, Ga., May 27, 1864, 8 a. m. There has been some very heavy fighting on our left this morning, and everywhere along the line...

May 15, 1864, 1:30 a. m. At 11 p. m. went again on the skirmish line with Captain Post and superintended the construction of rifle pits for...

May 14, 1864. Reveille at 3 a. m. and an order has just come to leave all our knapsacks and move at 7 a. m. Great hospital preparations...

Steamer “Cosmopolitan,” bound to Beaufort from Savannah, Ga., January 21, 1864. I was at Beaufort some three days when I received a...

Moved out on Richmond road, and Malvern Hill road till we encountered the enemy. Six companies of our regiment on extreme left skirmish lin...

“We now opened fire for the first time during the day, in the direction of the regiment or brigade that had so frightfully thinned our rank...

Got our line established about 10 o'clock last night; rained hard; got very wet; day has passed quietly; moved our skirmish line about ...