OPENING THE GREAT WILDERNESS BATTLES. Before day bugles blowed, drums beat; men get ready to march. At dawn troops were moving; at sunrise...

January 21, Evening. Great days seem natural to us now. General Hunter has reviewed our regiment with Gen. Saxton, and the Colonel's lon...

I had a time getting the men out this morning when starting around the brigade to relieve the second relief, some refusing to come out of t...

The Eleventh Iowa was mustered today for pay. The regiment numbers about six hundred men present for duty, and but few are absent on accoun...

We stopped at Centralia this morning for breakfast, and arrived at Cairo about 5 o'clock in the evening. Our regiment received new tent...