Came to McMinnville this morn. Ordered Regiment to Hoover's Gap to picket; wagons to Manchester. I went to the wagons to get a saddle, s...

Has been an unlucky day. begins to rain at 3. A. M. Revelie at 3:30 & Genl sounded at 4. The rain pouring down & no one having break...

Oxford.   Awakened by Sergeant Hamilton, while the stars were yet bright, with orders to feed. I, unsatisfied with the short sleep, again la...

I visited Washington to-day, through such rain and such mud, as no civilized country, save this, can sustain, and preserve its character for...

After a hard day's march through mud and mire we halted at Jeffersonville (or  ton ), a small, dilapidated village in Culpeper county. O...

This has certainly been one of the most exciting days I have spent in the service. We crossed the river on a transport to the Louisana shore...

Our regiment* mounted and moved out toward Marietta, at which place they halted for the night. _______________ * As I was badly poisoned w...

Regt in line to move at 6. Rec orders to wait. At 12. I am sent with a detail to corderoy the road. The train all stuck in the mud. men pull...

Fine day; lay in camp all day quite a no of the men out to forage. see some Rebs. Capt sent back with detail for rations. Men pull the wagon...

Forenoon I rambled down the bottom & through a cotton plantation & to a burning cotton gin & back to camp afternoon MH Hare our ...

Jake Smith, the driver of the head-quarters wagon, on his arrival in Elizabethtown went to the hotel, and in an imperious way ordered dinner...

Moving two miles again, we halted for a few days at Marietta, a small village in Itawamba County, twenty-one miles from Jacinto. A part of...

We moved about two hundred yards and encamped on the bank of the Tombigbee. Our wagons were brought out to us, loaded with corn, provisions ...

Start at 3 o'clock for the wagons at Yankeetown. All horses unfit for duty sent there under Lieut. Gibson of 11th Texas. Regiment went t...

Came on by Mr. England's; stopped on Mountain at Mrs. Lowe's and got some bread baked and duck cooked; took dinner and came on to Ca...

The Third and Sixth Ohio, with Loomis' battery, left camp at half-past three in the afternoon, and took the Huntersville turnpike for Bi...

After the rear of the infantry passed we moved on down, covering the retreat on the left flank. Two companies of Colonel Forrest's Regim...

Corinth. Orders were given to Battery to cook three days' rations in their haversacks and three days' in the wagons, all ready to ma...

HAM FAT. Freedom of the town for to-day, and all over town we went; had a dug-out race, and about all who were in it got a ducking. Our pa...

Rained all night. train all day getting in. lie in camp. drizzly rain all day. to lighten the teams all the rations are issued 2 days bread,...