After breakfast read the Marshall Republican; found a very good speech from Horatio Seymour, Democratic candidate for governor of New York. ...

Was told by S. N. Brogdon, on the stage, that my old college classmate, Loudon Butler, was Captain of Company B, Nineteenth Louisiana regime...

I hope I may never for my sins be again condemned to travel for thirty hours in an American stage on a used-up plank road. We changed carri...

Started again by stage for Munroe at 4.30 A.M. My companions were, the Mississippi planter, a mad dentist from New Orleans (called, by cour...

We reached Marshall at 3 A.M., and got four hours' sleep there. We then got into a railroad for sixteen miles, after which we were cram...

General Scurry's servant “John” had been most attentive since he had been told off to me. I made him a present of my evening clothes, w...

Mr. Schenck, at the Farms has a dog which goes out near the railroad track every night, a few minutes before it is time for the cars, and w...