Raining hard all day, and fighting all last night. About 2 o'clock this afternoon about 2,000 prisoners came in, with them Major-General...

This morning at 3 we moved to the right until daylight, when our corps was again sent to the front. We advanced toward the enemy's works...

The roads are so bad that it is hard work to trudge along. I stuck in the mud several times, and lost one shoe in a mud hole, but of course ...

According to previous instructions (see under 25th instant), Col. Rains, with his regiment, McNairy's Battalion and Falcond's sectio...

July 25, 1864 We moved up to the rear of the corps on the 21, and had just got comfortably fixed for the night when orders came that we ...

Pleasant and rather cool. My hair is playing me pranks. It grows straight up in the air and only on the topmost part of my head. Where a ma...

We all got up at 3.30 A.M., and breakfasted a little before daylight. Lawley insisted on riding, notwithstanding his illness. Captain and I...

Weather very warm, but suited to the work we have got to do. We fell back about a half mile last night, just after Generals Meade and Sedgw...

I never understood before the full force of those questions — What shall we eat? what shall we drink? and wherewithal shall we be clothed? ...

June 23, 1864 All were up at an early hour and ready for an advance, which had been ordered. On the right, towards the Gregory house, w...

Headquarters Army Of Potomac Between The Rappahannock And Rapidan September 17, 1863 Having again got “home,” I find leisure and pa...