Did ever husband and father need the comforting aid of the help-meets of home as I need them this evening? See my table. Six  full  foolscap...

One day is so much like another that the history of one will do for several. I think about everything that can be done for our comfort is be...

I have for some time had as mess-mates Surgeon J—— V—— and his two sons. I find him a most estimable Quaker gentleman, and he is by his cour...

This morning our Brigade Surgeon ordered me to leave the hospital for a few days, on account of my fatigue and prostration. He said that a r...

It is a great relief to my feelings that the difficulties heretofore existing between the Military and Medical Departments in our Regiment a...

We are still in camp, where each day is like the preceding one. The same routine of "duty" is gone through with, which, to me, is ...

Crab Orchard, Ky. We arrived at 10 a. m., making ten miles from Lancaster this morning. Crab Orchard is a lovely town of about one thousand ...

Our battery moved back last night about one mile and camped on Hogan's farm. This morning when we awoke we found a party of eight hundre...

The U. S. surgeon from the Marine Hospital has been on board looking us over. Found only four diseases, measles, scurvy, typhoid fever and j...

A little occurrence of a very unpleasant nature, today. I have, for a long time, felt that my Colonel was interfering with the Medical Depar...

. . . in which Mrs. Lincoln was coming into the city this morning from the Soldiers’ Home ran off in consequence of fright, arising from the...

We regret to learn that a painful accident occurred to Mrs. Lincoln yesterday morning, about ten o’clock near the Mount Pleasant Hospital. I...

This morning, at about ten o’clock, as Mrs. Lincoln was passing in her carriage across the open lot near the Mount Pleasant Hospital, the dr...

I find vast trouble in doing justice to the sick, in consequence of the unwarrantable interference of military officers in matters of which ...

Something has happened. Last night, just as we were settling down for the night, orders came for a move. Dr. Andrus came round looking us ov...

Dr. Andrus is going to-day. He says I ought not to think of leaving here yet. But he does not forbid it, so if I get a chance I shall try it...

In consequence of the damp nights I cough badly. Nights are cool, compared with the heat of the day, the sun being terrible, in consequence ...

Finished up the examination of the Company & had 7 more rejected but leaves us a full com they had to be stripped naked & thurroughl...

We were rejoiced this morning to hear of Rosecrans' success, and, at the same time, not well pleased at the escape of the enemy under co...

We started early this morning, steadily tramping till a little after noon, when we entered the town of Hamilton, the rebs leaving as our adv...