Our camp yesterday was enlivened by the joyful news that we had orders to take the cars for some unknown destination, and it is generally be...

GOLDSBORO. There was no time this morning to cook coffee, so we started on a cold-water breakfast, after another cold night, with little g...

Awakened by the guard at 4 a. m.; at daylight go on the street receiving a small day's ration, the fourth issue since our capture. Rain ...

Arrive at Columbia, S. C., at dawn. The night passed disagreeably. Although our destiny is prison, men are impatient at delays, growl at ...

Arrived at Augusta, Ga., at daylight, one of the nicest towns of its size in the South; the home of Alexander H. Stephens, long celebrated a...

Another night cramped up on the cars; another night of painful nipping at napping amidst the roar, the heat and jogging of the train. Everyb...

Relay House Station, on the Northern Central R. R. Just where that is I haven't yet found out. We stood up or laid down in the street fr...

Orders got too strict for my candle and I had to put it out. We made so much noise that the doors were shut on us finally and we were in pit...

Well, I have had a good sleep, if I did have a hard time getting it. Our cornstalk bed which promised so well, did not prove so. The stalks ...

Cold and wet. Throat and lungs sore, head and bones ache; I am nearly sick; got no rest. It grew warmer about 10 a. m. I lay down to get a l...

VIRGINIA GIRLS OF SWEET SIXTEEN DID NOT LOVE US. Weather hot; two more trains of Rebel wounded pass. Report that General Wadsworth and oth...

Arrived at Bellaire at 3 P. M. There is trouble in the neighborhood of Grafton. Have been ordered to that place. The Third is now on the V...

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...

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...

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

ARRIVAL AT NEW BERNE. About nine this morning we saw our first of Rebeldom, and after taking a pilot, and passing several ugly-looking rip...

PHILADELPHIA. We were too crowded in the cars to see much, or to do much, coming here. Most of us slept nearly all the way. I did for one, b...

CAMP MILLINGTON. We were too tired last night to look about and see where we were. This morning we were ourselves again, and began to take s...

We steamed past Fort Schuyler, Hurl Gate, New York city, crossed the bay, and landed at Elizabethport, by ten o'clock A. M. After a dela...

On the evening of the 15th we take the cars for Chattanooga. All are in fine spirits, and as we move from Athens we are wont to say, farewel...