I have allowed a huge gap to occur in this Diary, for which I can offer a poor excuse. I have been sick with head-ache for about three weeks...

Another week has passed over without any excitement, save what is occasioned by the preparations for the attack on the Indianola, and what i...

Cloudy——rained in the afternoon. This is the anniversary of the first gun of the war, fired at Fort Sumter. It is still said and believe...

It is raining this morning; has been all night. There may be poetry in war, but there is no poetry in Camp Halleck (the name given to this c...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,           Saint Louis, February 7 , 1862 . Fort Henry was taken yesterday, with seventeen he...

CAIRo , ILL., February 7, 1862. SIR: I have the honor to report that on the 6th instant, at 12:30 p.m., I made an attack on Fort Henry,...

U. S. Flag Steamer “Cincinnati,”                            Off Fort Henry, Tennnesee River,               February 6th, 1862. sir : ...

The Cincinnati Gazette and Commercial’s Cairo correspondence give the following account of the bombardment and capture of Fort Henry: ...

New Orleans , September 9th, 1862. Dear Sir : The newspapers which I send, will give you most of the local news. One Regiment of th...

Relieved Eighteenth Indiana, went home on the Iberville. Lieutenant Kerney and myself crossed the river early in the morning. Found Captain...

We passed Baton Rouge and Port Hudson entering the mouth of Red river at about noon. On the way up two men hailed us from the shore in the ...

First Louisiana ordered to Donaldsonville. Went in wagons by way of Springfield Landing, 18 miles below Port Hudson, where we went on board...

It required very little persuasion to induce those gentlemen to stay to supper, the other evening, and it was quite late before they took t...

Sarah Morgan. X. September 26th, Friday. My mark finds me at Linwood, though I had not the slightest idea that it would. Wonder where...

Is this really Sunday? Never felt less pious, or less seriously disposed! Listen to my story, and though I will, of course, fall far short ...

We six madcaps got in the carriage and buggy, and rode off in search of news. We took a quantity of old linen rags along, and during the wh...

Headquarters Div. Seventeenth Army Corps, Red River Expedition, Fort De Russey, Avoyelles County, Louosiana , March 17, 1864. My Dear...

PADUCAH, February 4, 1862 The transports which left Cairo yesterday with troops on board, came straggling in here one at a time during ...

UNITED STATES NATIONAL MILITARY CEMETERY   PITTSBURG LANDING. ESTABLISHED 1866. INTERMENTS 3590. KNOWN 1229. UNKNOWN 23...

Quartermaster, USS Essex, United States Navy Scalded badley in the assault against Fort Henry and died February 6, 1862 Officer’s Ci...