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...

Rienzi. Was another repetition of that a week ago only on a little larger scale. The horses were harnessed at 1 A. M. and we went out on the...

Contrary to my expectations, we embarked at midnight on the steamer "William Allison," taking our guns and men, sending our horses...

Jerrolaman went out this afternoon and picked nearly a peck of blackberries. Berries of various kinds are very abundant. The fox-grape is al...

Received twenty-four boxes, saddles, bridles, halters, etc. Sent to Camp. Got a detail and put them all in a house and locked them up. We to...

Rienzi.   Woke by the bugle at 3:30 A. M.; went out to roll call and drill. The weather fine. Washed shirt and stockings for first time. Wro...

Rienzi.     Acted as No. 6 on drill to-day. Made a galloping time of it. Did my first sweeping. Saw the first nigger dance; watered horses i...

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...

Washington, March 12, 1851. MY DEAR SIR,—I am tired of sitting, and Mr. Sargent writes this note, while I am acting the part of a peripate...

The Fourteenth Indiana and one company of cavalry went to the summit this morning to fortify. The Colonel has gone to Beverly. The boys re...

Before daylight. We have been turned out, for some purpose, and are standing in line with our guns and accoutrements on. Later. Are back i...

Well, I have had a good sleep, if I did have a hard time getting it. Our cornstalk bed which promised so well, did not prove so. The stalks ...

Started before day for Fort Donelson. Had to walk to keep from freezing. Got to the Fort about three hours by sun. Our Regiment sent on Fort...

we lade ther in the field all night with our guns by our side And next morning we marched out in the woods And we stade ther untell about 2 ...

Nothing of any consequence happened. Camp wore a wintry aspect. The time was mostly occupied in building stables for the horses. Colonel Tom...

Commenced to build a stable for horses, three hundred feet long. Captain Bess, our chief of artillery. Our battery remained at Muddy Branch ...

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

I introduce the following letter to a friend, as sufficiently explicit as to the occurrences since the last date: CHAIN BRIDGE, VA., Sept....