We left Knoxville at 9 a. m. of Saturday and arrived within ten miles of Greenville about sundown. The hills and valleys were covered with t...

Started at eleven A.M., and advanced about a mile, where we stopped a short time, and then went down to the left, and went into battery at h...

The different corps had only taken such positions yesterday as they could in the dark, but today troops were constantly being brought forwar...

Skirmishing going on all day, the rebels' position being reconnoitered by our general officers and their staffs. Hot work before us. I c...

Skirmishing, as usual. Quite a number of officers were sitting together just before dark eating their supper of coffee and hard tack, when t...

Reached camp yesterday at noon. My recruits arrived to-day. The enemy was here in my absence in strength and majesty, and repeated, with a...

"Boots and saddles" at five A.M. Crossed the Rappahannock on a pontoon-bridge at United States Ford. Marched to Chancellorsville, ...

Busy all day fixing our camp. Skirmishing going on all day. It is a busy day, as artillery, transportation and troops are arriving and disem...

Left camp on the 16th on a scout to hunt up Blythe's forces. Orders came upon us suddenly to prepare two days rations and go in light ma...

HEADQUARTERS,           March 25 , 1865 . At daylight this morning General Gordon assaulted and carried enemy's works at Hare's H...

Nothing out of the common routine took place during this day. Skirmishing continued and some shelling. SOURCE: Edwin L. Drake, Editor,  Th...

was a beautyful one and the Yankees was alanding at West Point and about 8 o'clock we was marched down to the intended battle field And ...

Marched twenty-three miles today. For the first time since I have been in the South have I seen the Stars and Stripes waved from a house. An...

A clear day. The enemy in great force around Leesburg. We can see the church steeples of that place. Skirmishing kept up all day. In the eve...

We arrive at Fayetteville, and while approaching, the advance was for awhile engaged in skirmishing with Wade Hampton's cavalry, that co...

The 4th Division take the advance this morning. The advance encounter Hampton's cavalry, but by a little skirmishing they are soon scatt...

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

The following extract from a letter which I have just written to a friend, is the sum and substance of my thoughts, journalized for to-day. ...

I introduce the following letter to a friend, as sufficiently explicit as to the occurrences since the last date: CHAIN BRIDGE, VA., Sept....

Had some skirmishing to-day. Took some prisoners, who state that within twelve miles of us is the center of operations of about one hundred ...