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...

I went to the supper table last night too sick to eat anything; left the table and laid down on a lounge until the hotel keeper could show m...

Rienzi.   Arose to the sound of the bugle at 3 A. M. Prepared for a general inspection, but Captain, apprehending a move, did not call us ou...

Rienzi.   To-day was spent in anxious waiting. I stood guard for the first time while we were momentarily expecting orders to leave; slept i...

Rienzi.   This was another day of idle waiting; most of the boys slept in tents last night, and it was supposed we would have to stay here. ...

GOLDSBORO. There was no time this morning to cook coffee, so we started on a cold-water breakfast, after another cold night, with little g...

We encamped in a corn field last night, completely exhausted; in the middle of the night it commenced to rain but I slept through it until I...

Well, I have had a good sleep, if I did have a hard time getting it. Our cornstalk bed which promised so well, did not prove so. The stalks ...

Have laid on the ground alongside the track resting and sleeping, waiting for the bridge to be repaired so we can go home. SOURCE:  Lawren...

Boys had grand snowball. Gave Col. Harrison a taste. Came up Columbia road, twenty miles, to little village of Wharton, took up quarters. We...

Madison, Wis. I bade good-bye to friends, relatives and companions most dear, and at 8 o'clock embarked for Madison to begin my soldier...

After turning in last night it was impossible to sleep, the cause being the music of a band farther down the railroad track. It was a serena...

Got stove in office. Carr and Mosley spent the evening very pleasantly in the office. Slept in office black hole; cold. SOURCE: Lewis C. P...

Marched to Lumpkins Mills; weather very warm. Christmas eve I retired to my bed on the bare ground completely worn out with the day's ma...

I am alone to-night, and tired enough to lie and sleep for twenty-four hours, did not the scenes around call up associations which banish re...

We are now on the “heaving sea and the bounding wave.” We were aroused yesterday morning at four o'clock, ordered to prepare breakfast a...

Reached Yorktown early this morning so wearied and fatigued I could hardly hold my head up. Slept three or four hours on the ground and woke...

Slept on the roadside all night, and just missed being run over by a wagon, whose driver did not see me. Our rations being short, I was sent...

We started early this morning by the northerly road; we "fell in "regularly enough, but it was not long before we took the "r...

At four o'clock this morning "all was wrong." We were aroused from the most miserable attempt at sleep our boys ever dreamed o...