It is some weeks since I have had time to write a word in this diary. In the mean time many things have happened which I desired to note but...

Norfolk , September 30, 1861. You think I'm doing pretty well in the number of my letters, don't you? I can afford to for you a...

Cairo.  We number now about 60 and have 25 days in which to fill up to 100. Two hundred and fifty of our regiment of three-months’ men hav...

At just daylight I got up and was walking around the prison to see if any Michigan men had died through the night, and was just in time to...

We attended hospital services yesterday as usual. There are few patients, and none are very ill. On Friday night a most unexpected death to...

We left Heff river and marched through to Bayou Mason, eighteen miles, and stopped for the night. While marching today some of us heard th...