Left Raleigh about 9 o'clock yesterday morning. The road from Raleigh to Weldon is the most crooked and through the most broken country ...

This morning about daylight we received orders to be ready to march at 8:30. All is bustle now getting ready. I have been to the spring for ...

Grand Junction, Tenn. It having rained during the night, the dust was converted to mud. Ate a breakfast of cold beef and bread, filled our c...

Camp near Hickman's Bridge, Ky. I did not join the regiment as soon as I expected, owing to the negligence of the Medical Director, whos...

I had comforted myself with the reflection that when we returned to Kentucky, where communications were uninterrupted by guerillas, and were...

Passed Roanoke on our right, about eight o'clock this morning; sea smooth and weather pleasant. Had a good breakfast of dried beef and w...

Left McMinnville camp in the morning, the colonel telling us, ''Boys, you have longed to meet the enemy on the battle-field, and you...

We moved back to the old side, five of us, unbeknown to Rebs, it being improved by the removal of so many to the new part, and to get near t...

Went into camp, and a hard place it is; wood scarce and "water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink," except the Mississippi ...

Left Milliken's Bend and had one of the hardest marches on account of heat we have ever had. The distance was only twelve miles, yet it ...

Off the coast of Florida. We must be going to New Orleans as has been reported. I did not believe it at first, as there was a report that Ch...

Had orders last night at 12 o'clock to cook rations and be ready to move at 4 A.M., but this morning nothing farther is said about it. T...

Vicksburg is ours; Johnson defeated and his forces scattered; our work in Mississippi is performed, and we have taken up the line of march f...

Haines Bluff. We did not leave on the 23d, as was rumored, but are still in our old camp, enjoying a short season of repose preparatory to o...

July 5th, 1863. We have moved about one and one-half miles today. No doubt our northern friends think they have seen dusty roads, but if t...

Near Jackson, Miss., July 11th, 1863. On the 6th of July, at about 3 o'clock p. m., we fell into line and started for the Big Black Ri...

Yesterday we received orders to move this morning at daylight. We will join the right section of our battery, from which we have been separa...

We have a splendid camping ground, plenty of wood and water, Made ourselves very comfortable. I feel so much better here where we can have b...

My tent is on the bank of the Valley river. The water, clear as crystal, as it hurries on over the rocks, keeps up a continuous murmur. 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...