Forenoon I drilled the Co & was on dress perade. 1st Lieut drilled the Co afternoon. I took my children & visited the hospitals. the...

Found dead Indian at Slabtown. I was sick all day. Went to the hospital in the evening. Very pretty moonlight night. Ord. Gibhard sentenced ...

Another hot day. How hot I don't know, but it wilted me. I tumbled down, completely used up while at drill. Several others did the same....

Holmes called the roll this morning and we hear no more about being shot for mutiny. It may possibly come later, but from all I can see and ...

On Sunday evening left Big Black and moved to Church, occupying our old camping ground of May 20th, where we are resting and waiting orders....

We are getting right down to business now. Have company drill and will soon drill with the whole regiment together. To-day we practiced the ...

J. S. Anderson 1 shot and killed W. K. Natcher at Chestnut Mound. The latter was drunk. They were both members of Harris' Company. Abou...

To-day there was a man shot for desertion. Eight balls passed through him. The way this is conducted is the brigade that he belongs to, or s...

Camp near Orange Court House, Va., January 16, 1864. The army is filling up with conscripts, absentees and others, and if we get also the ...

Two men out of our regiment were whipped for desertion. They were undressed all but pants and shoes, tied to a post, and each given thirty-n...

Went uptown to-day on French leave, and when I returned was put on guard duty for going. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary of a Tar Heel Confeder...