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...

We have been hard at work yesterday and to-day fixing up our camp, which is located about a quarter of a mile from town on the old racecours...

Those of us who are on guard to-day are having a “soft time.” We have our orders to start at three to-morrow morning. The boys are busy pack...

[Click on map to enlarge.] At daybreak we were well into the river, and at noon reached Little Washington. At home, this would be a small, a...

Left Columbus this morning about 4 o'clock on board the cars of the M. & O. Railroad. Men all in good spirits. Left a number in the ...

We rejoined our battalion at Black's Shop, seven miles from Murfreesboro, on the Lebanon pike. We were ordered to hunt quarters for the ...

On reassembling the battalion drew five tents to each company, and put them up at Black's Shop. Hearing that the Federals were about f...

Monday morning. Our first night in Baltimore is over. We had roll-call, to see if we were all here, and then spread our blankets on the grou...

About midnight, an officer of some sort rode into camp with some word that was the means of our being routed out by the "Long Roll,&quo...