La Grange, Tenn. Awoke to hear the rain pattering briskly on the Sibley [tent] above me. We were called out, and with expectations to march,...

Moscow. Weather cold and frosty. 2 Р. М. bugle sounded the assembly, "Fall in", when we were given orders to prepare to march imme...

We moved back a mile or so to the rear, and as we considered this a safe place our horses were "unhitched, unharnessed," etc., for...

9 Oc Mr. R Murdock & I started to the citty was at the gun boats & Arsenal seen one horse get drouned, took our dinner at the Mt Ver...

Reveille at four o'clock; started on our march after a "hearty cup of coffee." Struck inland and marched around Lake St. Josep...

All the provisions and forage has to be brought on the backs of mules and horses from Shipping Point and Cheeseman's Creek, the roads be...

The Regiment received two months' pay to-day, and to-night are all busy as bees making up express packages, to be sent to fathers, mothe...

The drivers arrived with the horses. In the afternoon, our James' rifle guns were returned to the Washington Arsenal, and those of Batte...

The guns were loaded on board the propeller Novelty; the horses on the barge Onrust. Those of the right section on the schooner Charmer. The...

No. 5. Report of Col. Napoleon B. Buford, Twenty-seventh Illinois Infantry. HDQRS. TWENTY-SEVENTH REG'T ILL. VOLS.,           Cairo, N...

Mustered for two months' pay. Started from Potomac Creek at half-past one P.M., with eight days' rations. Each off-horse had a bag o...

Members of the Agricultural Society and Citizens of Wisconsin : Agricultural Fairs are becoming an institution of the country; they are us...

Corinth. Finished policing around the guns. In the afternoon after the Company was formed for drill, as Orderly Hayward was returning after ...

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...

Our horses have been harnessed for twenty-four hours, and we are impatiently awaiting orders to leave Suffolk. The troops from Norfolk have ...

Reached the Coldwater River today and disembarked the troops for the purpose of cleaning the boat and giving the men an opportunity of clean...

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...

Forage by this time was very scarce, so much so that our quartermaster was not able to furnish half rations for our horses. By going to the ...

OFF FORTRESS MONROE. We left Newport News about six this morning, and came here where lie many other vessels loaded with soldiers. There...

Company went on scout. Unshod horses did not go, so I staid. SOURCE: Ephraim Shelby Dodd,  Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member of Company...