Nothing out of the common routine took place during this day. Skirmishing continued and some shelling. SOURCE: Edwin L. Drake, Editor,  Th...

At 2 o'clock on the morning of the 17th an order came for the pickets to fall back noiselessly to the trenches, which we did very quietl...

We marched seven miles this morning, and, while resting several hours, cleaned out a corn-field near by. Started again, and again halted to ...

Drew flour this morning for the first time in eight months. We are to stay here to-day and draw ten months' pay. Our pay-rolls are in th...

Made three miles yesterday, and are now encamped in a thick forest with an abundance of good spring water at hand. We are washing clothing a...

In camps yet, with nothing to do and plenty to eat, and no fear of the enemy's pursuit. We had a military execution here yesterday, on t...

Nothing of interest doing here. The news is not encouraging. Grant has burned Jackson and evacuated the place, falling back toward Vicksburg...

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...

Last Wednesday we moved from our encampment at Mound Bluff Church, and after two days' marching, came to this place, and we are now enca...

While waiting for the brigade to move, I will endeavor to write up what transpired yesterday. At about I A. M. we were aroused from sleep wi...

Yesterday we made short marches, halting at every good shade to rest. The heat was very oppressive. At Clinton a brigade was sent to meet th...

Jackson.—We took position in the ditches early in the morning of the 9th, and have been here ever since, under fire of the enemy's sharp...

Still at our camps near Jackson doing absolutely nothing, living on the shortest possible commons. Had dress-parade yesterday for the first ...

This morning at four o'clock we left our camp of the last four days, and came to our present abiding place, in a thick grove, about two ...

Yesterday morning the brigade left Canton, heading northwest. We made twenty miles and encamped for the night in a grove convenient to water...

Camp near Yazoo City.—The division arrived here after dark last night. The troops suffered greatly from heat, thirst, and fatigue. Two of ou...

Left our camp yesterday, and moved to our present stoping place, four miles southwest of Yazoo City. We are on half rations of corn bread an...

Still at our camp of the 6th inst., with plenty of wood and abundance of good spring and lake water; no improvement in the rations. Yesterda...

Left camp in the vicinity of Yazoo yesterday morning at daylight, and after a hard day's march nearly due south, arrived at the Big Blac...

On Sunday evening left Big Black and moved to Church, occupying our old camping ground of May 20th, where we are resting and waiting orders....