No particular news today. The streets are in a wo[e]ful condition but the boys who are anxious to gain a penny — keep the crossings in toler...

Raining. Long trains of "supply" and "ammunition" wagons have been rolling past our dwelling all the morning, indicati...

Rienzi.   Went through the usual routine of drill and camp life. Received my first mail since my arrival, consisting of two letters and a [M...

Rienzi.   Was begun with another of the "strategic moves". We were told to hitch up with the greatest speed—all our baggage, knaps...

This afternoon, when riding down to Huttonville, I met three or four hundred sorry-looking soldiers. They were without arms. On inquiry, I f...

Commenced skirmishing early, falling back slowly; fought through Triune and beyond Mr. Perkins. Rained on us all day. After passing Mr. P...

HEADQUARTERS WESTERN DEPARTMENT,           Edgefield, February [17, 1862]. Major-General CRITTENDEN,           Commanding Chestnut Mound: ...

Ben and I went on home by the way of New Middleton and Alexandria, taking the wagon on home with us. We were about the last of the company g...

About twenty-eight of Captain T. M. Allison's Company left home to rejoin the command at Gainesboro. Had one wagon with us, in which we ...

As our wagon broke down, we had only marched about twelve miles, when we stopped at the Widow Allen's, on the bank of Caney Fork River, ...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA,           December 23 , 1864. On the 20th General Early reported one division of enemy's caval...

HDQRS. FIRST DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO,           Lebanon, Ky., December 30, 1861. Brig. Gen. D. C. BUELL,           Commanding Depa...

Going seven miles further Allison met the wagons within eighteen miles of Livingston. Turning back, he camped within one mile of where he ca...

Our wagons made a very good drive that day, about twenty-two miles. We camped within five miles of Monticello. SOURCE: Richard R. Hancock,...

Two companies of Brazelton's Battalion, fifty men from McNairy's, and about five companies of infantry went about ten miles up the s...

HEADQUARTERS ELEVENTH BRIGADE,                     Columbia, Ky., December 13, 1861.           (Received December 14, 1861.) Brig. Gen. GEO...

This morning companies C, G and H, commanded by Major Estabrook, go out on a foraging expedition. We go about three miles—load our wagons wi...

This morning a wagon with rations arrives from the column-quite a welcome arrival. We discover that we are now some distance from the main c...

Col. Rains had learned that Col. Brown, who was in command of the Home Guards that had fled to Wildcat the evening before, lived some two or...

HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES,                       Near Spotsylvania Court-House, May 11 , 1864 — 8 . 30 a.m. We have n...