John Van has been over again and says his regiment is going into winter quarters in the city outskirts. I hear the 128th has sailed for Fort...

Our Third and Fourth Detachments are camped for the winter at Land's End, under the command of Lieutenant John M. West, and supported by...

I worked in office. Capt. Emil A. Burger gave me a box and left for St. Paul, taking Capt. Barrett, Adjutant Pell, First Lieutenant Groetsch...

The project was started to build huts for winter-quarters. Details were made every day, to cut heavy timber, which was done for a week. But ...

Started at two P.M., and moved to Potomac Creek, where we spent the winter. SOURCE: John Lord Parker,  Henry Wilson's Regiment: Histor...

Began to build log houses for winter quarters. The fifth detachment built the first house. SOURCE: John Lord Parker,  Henry Wilson's R...

Occupied the time in fixing up our quarters, and building a stable for the horses. SOURCE: John Lord Parker,  Henry Wilson's Regiment:...

The battery left Muddy Branch, with the understanding to go into winter-quarters near Poolesville. We were told that we should have many d...

A stable for the horses commenced on. SOURCE: Theodore Reichardt,  Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery , p. 27

Our shanties are completed, and we moved in yesterday. They are warm and dry, and cannot but affect the health of the men favorably. I recei...

Camp near Fredericksburg, Dec. 28th, 1862. The battle of Fredericksburg has been fought and—lost. We are now engaged in the laudable occup...

December 29th, 1862. As I was sitting by my cosy fire last evening—for we have evenings here, long, dreary ones—thinking of past events an...

In camp near Culpepper, Va.—Weather delightful. Rumors of marching tomorrow morning. Marching orders we have been expecting several days, bu...

Left our camp at sun-up, got five miles and halted in the woods. We have been detailed to run two sawmills, and we are now putting up winter...

We moved our camps from our picket posts seven miles from Orange Court House. On the turnpike from there to Fredericksburg, and commenced pu...

We commenced putting up winter quarters, and were hard at work up till the last of this month. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary of a Tar Heel Co...

Camp near Rappahannock River, Culpeper County, Va., October 28, 1863. There was a cavalry fight across the river yesterday, and I am told th...

Camp near Fredericksburg, Va . ,           December 4, 1862. We traveled 175 miles from the Valley to this place in twelve days, and are n...

HEADQUARTERS EAST TENNESSEE BRIGADE,           Camp Calvert, near London, Ky., November 21, 1861. Hon. HORACE MAYNARD: DEAR SIR: The copy o...

We established a regular camp here. This last march has been a very hard one, and only a distance of thirty miles. But it took us from Wedne...