It was with a bounding heart, brimful of gratitude to God, that I stepped on board the Dakota and bade farewell to Haines Bluff on the secon...

Louisville, Ky. Again in Louisville—eleven hundred miles nearer home than one week ago and yet how far. Still, it is joy to feel I am compar...

Cincinnati, Ohio. We arrived here at 9:30 this morning. My day's work is, at last, completed, at 9 p. m. This has been a busy day. In fa...

New prisoners report favorable progress by our armies. Yesterday there was a powerful rain lasting ten hours. In this part the soil is red a...

SCENES AMONG SICK.—RAIDERS CONVICTED. Strong these men had been; In vast army camps had duty done; Had useful service in field and for...

Hot, showery day, renders the condition of the sick more appalling. It is believed that more than two-thirds of the 700 men at the gate in r...

On board the Arago again. That is, most of us are. Some were sent to the hospital instead, Leonard Loucks among them. Orders came in the nig...

My turn came, but did not last long. I was able to see the others at their worst, and came out of it before the others were able to take muc...

Land ho! I was on deck by the crack of dawn, saw the sun come up from the water; a beautiful sight. Saw two vessels going towards home and w...

Pleasant morning but the ground is covered with snow tonight. Snowed very hard the middle of the day. It has thawed all the time. Went to ch...

Last Wednesday Miss O. and myself visited Hospital No. 1, for the second time. They were just robing one young boy in his soldier's su...

Warm and rainy this morning. We struck out tents, fell in about daylight and marched through to Holly Springs, where we saw the effects of t...

Corinth, Miss. As it is seen from the last date, I have not written any for some time and I must write of the past from memory. Not getting ...

Haines Bluff. We did not leave on the 23d, as was rumored, but are still in our old camp, enjoying a short season of repose preparatory to o...

Our transports have arrived, and we expect to leave this afternoon for Cairo. Some of our boys are very sick, and urge me to go with them on...

9 Oc I dismissed the old guard & I then visited the sick in hospitals till noon evening I was on dress perade we have the pleasure of th...

Forenoon I drilled the Co in the manuel of arms afternoon Lieut McCreary drilled us 4 Oc we were on dress perade night I was at Lieut Balls ...

We drilled none but was on dress perade I visited the sick in hospitals & spent the day mostly with them we have one Josiah Biddison tha...

Forenoon the Orderly & I drilled the Co on scirmish drill afternoon I drilled then in the manuel of arms. 1st Lieut absent untill we wen...

Forenoon I drilled the Co in the manuel of arms we did not drill afternoon. we was on dress perade 1st Lieut & Orderly was absent all da...