[April 30.] Wednesday, half-past two o'clock. MY DEAR SIR,—I have yours of yesterday, and am most happy to hear your cold is better. W...

The first day of the month that it has not rained. The man shot last night is carried out dead this morning. By trading some, we are enabled...

THE PRISON CLEANED OF RAIDERS.—CANDIDATES FOR HEMP. With the passing June storms, hot weather begins. Spent the afternoon with Harriman. H...

The days have been continually hot since last date; rain at noon. Every day we see  the  extreme, nameless misery, feel that awful helplessn...

We struck tents yesterday morning and marched into Memphis, bivouacked on the wharf until dark and then embarked on board the steamer "...

The mornings are lovely here. When it is cool and pleasant hundreds of birds are singing in every direction; mocking birds seem to be in gre...

Weather cold and wet. SOURCE: Joseph Stockton,  War Diary (1862-5) of Brevet Brigadier General Joseph Stockton , p. 11

A bad, rainy day all day long. Yesterday afternoon, my young friend, Lieutenant J. E. B. Stuart, 20 came out, with his wife and child and s...

Rainy and cold all day, and the Roads excessively muddy — Tallies 2d. Pepys' Diary, 234. note. 1. 12. May 1665. [1854 ed., H. Colburn,...

The name of our camp is properly Elk Water, not Elk Fork. The little stream which comes down to the river, from which the camp derives its n...

These mountain streams are unreliable. We had come to regard the one on which we are encamped as a quiet, orderly little river, that would b...

With Wagner, Merrill, and Bowen, I rode up the mountain on our left this afternoon. We had one field-glass and two spy-glasses, and obtained...

The day has been cold and blustery. We have spent it in reading tracts the chaplain gave out, writing letters and swapping yarns. I am new t...

The sun rose clear this morning, and the air is just right. Our lower regions are hot and stuffy, but on deck it is delightful. Great birds,...

Rainy to-day. This keeps us below and such a racket as we make! I begun to wonder if I didn't make a mistake in leaving Stewart's Ma...

Camp Hamilton, right in sight of Fortress Monroe. The last day of fall and as perfect a day as ever was. We are on the ground again and it f...

The last two days have been excessively warm. Thermometer on the north porch at 100 on each day. A slight breeze from the west makes this da...

Late last night, Mr. Newton 4 came in to tell me that the Prest had just reed, a telegram to the effect that Columbus was evacuated. 5 Thi...

Snowed last night, and slush and slop all day. Raining in the forenoon *After breakfast went to the War & State Departments Wrote letter...

Snowing—Senate went into executive session at 1 P. M and continued till 5. SOURCE: The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. 1, p. 528