Our camp equipage came up to-day, so that we are now in our own tents. Four of my companies are on picket, scattered up the valley for mil...

Started at two P.M., and marched about two miles, and went into camp. This is known as the "mud march." It rained very hard all ni...

Rienzi.   Another day dawned without any orders. Some of the boys pitched their tents. I went out foraging in the afternoon. SOURCE: Jenki...

Once more we are on the wing. Yesterday morning we were ordered to be ready to march when called on. Of course, the men do not expect to sta...

We had a verry heavy rain before day wett us in our tents I mustered the company & took them out on Dress perade evening I took I. Spoon...

We have now at this point eight pieces of artillery and three thousand men. Sent to Yorktown for eight days' rations and our tents. Th...

Details sent out to get all the provisions possible and return by 12 o'clock. I went to town, but did not get my horse shod, met the com...

The battery left Muddy Branch, with the understanding to go into winter-quarters near Poolesville. We were told that we should have many d...

Roll call as usual at 5½ O'clock Inspection of men & tents at 9 o'clock by the Col. & Lt. Col Pass granted to 8 men to visit...

On the high land overlooking the Potomac, about six or seven miles above the Navy Yard at Washington, we have, since our arrival here, throw...

I am alone to-night, and tired enough to lie and sleep for twenty-four hours, did not the scenes around call up associations which banish re...

We are now on the “heaving sea and the bounding wave.” We were aroused yesterday morning at four o'clock, ordered to prepare breakfast a...

Early this morning we were awakened by a heavy wind storm and we had as much as we could do to keep our tents from being blown away. Sent of...

Arrived at Clarksburg about midnight, and remained on the cars until morning. We are now encamped on a hillside, and for the first time my b...

New tents were given us to-day. "A" tents they are called; I suppose because they are in the shape of a letter A. They are like th...

Camp Millington again. A sort of trial called a court-martial has been held and the boys who celebrated yesterday, are meditating upon it in...

CAMP MILLINGTON, BALTIMORE. On account of the heat we were not taken out for drill to-day. We have cleaned up our quarters, for since gettin...

a beautyfull warm sunshiney day and we cleaned our streets and struck our tents today SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone,  The Diary of Bartle...

Reveille early this morning preparations for leaving Camp McClernand, Tents struck at a few minutes after 10 A. M. Baggage packed & load...

On my arrival here, I found our tents pitched on ploughed ground, in a swale. The bottoms of the tents were very damp, and the mud in the st...