Our camp yesterday was enlivened by the joyful news that we had orders to take the cars for some unknown destination, and it is generally be...

Worked in office. Scouting party went out. I bought two pounds of white sugar, 50c. SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson,  Diary of Lewis C. Paxson: St...

Still at our camp of the 6th inst., with plenty of wood and abundance of good spring and lake water; no improvement in the rations. Yesterda...

BINGHAMTON, N. Y., September 13, 1853. MY DEAR SIR—I have this moment received your favor of the 10th, calling my attention to a communica...

ST. JAMES, LOUISIANA, December 3rd, 1855. MY DEAR SIR: Your letter only reached me in this outside world a few days since. Its confidence ...

We came to within 18 miles of Sauk Center. I stood on guard for the first time there. Good enough got me plenty of sugar and crackers from c...

Two letters to-day, and two papers, all from home. Seems as if I had been there for a visit. I wonder if my letters give them as much pleasu...

I have allowed a huge gap to occur in this Diary, for which I can offer a poor excuse. I have been sick with head-ache for about three weeks...

Calm and quiet; indications of snow. By a communication sent to Congress, by the President, it is ascertained that 500,000 pairs shoes, 8,...

After a very cold night spent in sleeplessness, I arose, determined to have something better to eat than our daily ration of coarse meal and...

A brighter morning, cool and clear. The President was at work yesterday. He and the Secretary and Gen. Cooper put their heads together to ma...

We moved our camps from our picket posts seven miles from Orange Court House. On the turnpike from there to Fredericksburg, and commenced pu...

Near Chaffin's Bluff, on James River, Va.,           August 8, 1864. The weather for the last few days has been intensely hot. It is v...

The First Battalion had the honor of going on dress parade in the presence of Major-General George B. Crittenden, who had arrived at Mill Sp...

CAMP WILDCAT, October 2, 1861. General GEORGE H. THOMAS: Since General Carter arrived we have been over considerable country. The general ...

ALEXANDRIA, July 10 ,  1860. . . . I feel little interest in politics and certainly am glad to see it realized that politicians can't ...

VICKSBURG, July 6, 1863. DEAR FATHER, — Vicksburg has at last surrendered after a siege of over forty days. The surrender took place on th...

LOUISIANA STATE SEMINARY, ALEXANDRIA, April 15, 1860. This is Sunday. Some of the cadets have gone to church, some fishing and the balance...

Memphis Tennessee, July 11th, 186[3]*, General Dodge: I have just arrived here from Headquarters and am on my way home with Master Fred, th...

Clear and cool. All quiet round the city; but Petersburg was assaulted yesterday and successfully defended. The battalion of clerks stil...