Weather very warm. Men engaged in building roads through the ravines to connect the different camps. Our rations are now all right, getting ...

The boat shoved off at daylight and started down at 10 o'clock. We arrived at Helena, a small town, where we stopped about three hours, ...

We started at sunrise as on the preceding morning. The wind blew quite strong, making it difficult for some of the smaller boats to keep up....

Toward night we received marching orders and started for Abbyville at dark. We heard that there was great excitement at Jackson, as an attac...

On board transport "Platte Valley." We left Memphis on the 3rd as we supposed for Lake Providence, but when we got within twenty-f...

Haines Bluff, Miss. Once more on land, and glad are we of the change. We arrived at the mouth of the Yazoo at ten o'clock yesterday morn...

The sky is overcast with clouds, a cool breeze comes from the west, which makes the temperature delightful. I have been out berrying, and ha...

Haines Bluff. Yesterday, as I was strolling through the ravines, picking berries, I came across a spring of delicious water, cold and pure. ...

A brigade of infantry pass through Chewalla on their way from Vicksburg to Corinth. They look as though they had seen hard service down on t...

VICKSBURG, MISS., July 11, 1863. Maj. Gen. N. P. BANKS, Comdg. Department of the Gulf: GENERAL: It is with pleasure I congratulate you up...

NEAR VICKSBURG, MISS., June 15, 1863. Maj. Gen. C. C. WASHBURN,           Commanding Detachment, Sixteenth Army Corps: I did not think it...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE,           Near Vicksburg, June 25, 1863. Lieut. Col. SAMUEL J. NASMITH,           Comdg. Officer, ...

SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 141.} HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE TENNESSEE,      In Field, near Vicksburg, Miss., May 26, 1863. I. Three brigades will be immed...

Moved this morning at four o'clock back again towards Vicksburg—rather an early start, unless some special business awaits us. A few sur...

We were aroused by the bugle call, and in a few minutes on the march again. Halted at noon on a large plantation. This is a capital place to...

HEADQUARTERS FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS,                         Camp on Big Black, September 7 , 1863 . H. W. HILL, Esq., Chairman of Meet...

Lagrange, Tenn., June 19, 1863. The general and Sam went to Memphis yesterday to visit General Hurlbut, and the major and I have charge...

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Lagrange, Tenn., March 15, 1863. I have just returned from a walk to and inspection of the cemetery belo...

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Jackson, Tenn., February 25, 1863. I guess it's full two weeks since I wrote you last, excepting a h...

A dispatch from General Grant makes mention of large captures of cattle coming east from Texas, and of munitions going south to Kirby Smith...