Rained very hard during the night, hearing that during the night a boat had come in Luiet Laughridge & I go to the landing. find no boa...

Rained last night & thought myself quite fortunate in having procured enough pieces of Reb tents to make a tent large enough to hold Te...

No marching orders yet this morning & as our teams had all been called for during the night & sent back to the landing for supplies...

All the Regts rec orders to be supplied with 5 days rations in their haver sacks. Capt Lacy was in our camp looking well & hearty. Mail...

Revelie this morning on the drums which is the first time while we have been before Spanish fort. Soon as breakfast is over many of the men...

There was tremenduous heavy firing last night from 11 to 1. the sky was lighted with the flash of small arms, could not determine whether i...

The Rebs in front of us fired but little during the night, they shelled our working party at the 6 gun battery close by us from the mortar ...

Mail was to leave the camp at 12 today; sat down to write a letter before I was ½ through was detailed to take charge of a squad of 30 men ...

Nothing unusual last night. I am relieved at 6. A. M. & marched the pickets to the Regt. which is on the road at 6.45, at which time th...

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 stati...

Rested tolerably last night, At 8. A M. The batteries open on the Forts & keep up a vigorous shelling for 3 hours. P. M. the felled tim...

Headquarters District Of South Alabama, Fort Gaines, Ala ., April 11, 1865. I wrote you the day before yesterday , since which time t...

Headquarters District Of South Alabama, Fort Gaines, Ala. , April 4 , 1865. My Dear Wife: As to Mobile, in my judgment, it is going...

Major David W. Reed, was born in Cortland, N. Y., April 2, 1841; removed, with his parents, to Iowa and settled on a farm in Allamakee Count...

The State of Iowa had sent into the field eighteen full regiments of infantry at the time President Lincoln issued his proclamation calling ...

The Eighth Regiment of Iowa Infantry was organized in compliance with the proclamation of the President, dated July 23, 1861, and the procla...