10 Oc I & Emma Amandus & our Cozens Maria & Mary Kelley attended Catholic Church after which we went to the Hospital Boat & ...

Forenoon I was on Company drill afternoon Division & Battalion drill & Dress perade, evening Emma Cozen Maria Kelly & I attended...

I went with our Capt to the Hospital & gave him his medison & staid with him most of the day afternoon a short time on drill & D...

Forenoon I drilled the Co in the manual of arms afternoon we ware on battallion drill & dress perade & ware down on main street ...

I was Officer of the Guard & was up near all night it was a beautiful night. one of our boys Josiah Biddison is verry sick & some do...

Heavy showers all day to near evening. The ground is soaked; thousands walk or lay in mud without covering unless they are among those who h...

The impression is growing that the situation is more and more unfavorable every day. Hospitals are overflowing with sick and no more admitta...

About 4 Oc I awoke by the sound of the fire & church bells there was a fine frame building burnt down the blaze looked nice but it was a...

We drilled some & was on dress perade in the rain. I visited the hospitals & talked to the sick. the Fanny Bulley Steamer arived las...

The incident at the creek, where I nearly drew the fire of two sentries, led me to inquire as to methods prison authorities have for informi...

A good work designed to remedy somewhat the unwholesomeness of the place, began today. A squad of men are furnished spades, hand barrows, wh...

This afternoon, when riding down to Huttonville, I met three or four hundred sorry-looking soldiers. They were without arms. On inquiry, I f...

Capt. Parke too unwell for duty to day No news everything going on smoothly as usual. SOURCE:  Transactions of the Illinois State Historic...

Sick lady, Mrs. Lull, took our office by permission. SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson,  Diary of Lewis C. Paxson: Stockton, N.J., 1862-1865 , p. 6

Started on our march to Memphis. Quimby's [ sic ] division are to guard a train of 600 empty wagons. The day's march was a terrible ...

Holmes called the roll this morning and we hear no more about being shot for mutiny. It may possibly come later, but from all I can see and ...

I introduce the following letter to a friend, as sufficiently explicit as to the occurrences since the last date: CHAIN BRIDGE, VA., Sept....

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

we drilled some the Capt & 1st Lieut absent the 1st Lieutenant has been sick for several days. SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator,  Ann...