To-day we receive the government's veteran propositions, which are now being discussed by the Seventh; whether the boys will catch the f...

To-day a meeting of the regiment is called for the purpose of feeling its pulse, and it is found to beat to the veteran time. The ball is no...

RE-ENLISTING. We have now entered on the last year of our soldier service and are looking forward to the end, and may it not only end our ...

Up to this date about 200 of our men have reenlisted, and today the first detachment left for home on their thirty days' furlough. They ...

The balance of the re-enlisted men left for home today, several of the officers going with them. We have now got our ultimatum, either enlis...

The order has arrived and we are under heavy marching orders for Yorktown, which is 30 miles distant and where, it is said, we shall probabl...

Yesterday and today have been busy days at Camp Upton. The idea of going home as a regiment has found favor with the officers, and as this i...

It now appears there are 225 of us who go into exile. We are to take all our earthly effects with us and get them along as best we can, notw...

We have orders to stay in camp, ready to move at a moment's notice. Our marching orders are still delayed, so we have enjoyed a good res...

It is warm to-day, and cloudy; but there was ice early in the morning. We have recaptured twenty-odd of the escaped prisoners.  A bill has p...

The regiment's period of enlistment is now drawing to a close, and it has not been out of its native State. The drums are now beating f...

Brig. General Prentiss, and Colonels Oglesby and Paine, visit the camp of the Seventh, addressing the men upon the subject of re-enlisting....

Eleven years ago married. Lucy and I talked of it and lived it over on this eleventh anniversary. A happy day. [In the] evening, spo...

Camp White , December 3, 1863. Dear Mother : — We are all here living very comfortably. Webb and Ruddy are learning lessons daily. Webb...

The recent victory of Grant near Chattanooga seems to be very complete. We have not heard from Burnside, besieged in Knoxville by Longstree...

Today I explained to the Twenty-third Order Number 191 respecting the re-enlistment of veteran volunteers. I told them I would not urge the...

Today I explained to the Twenty-third Order Number 191 respecting the re-enlistment of veteran volunteers. I told them I would not urge the...

Tom and Admiral Dahlgren returned from Fortress Monroe, but without the remains of young Dahlgren. We are running short of sailors a...

Took the inspected horses to Quartermaster Stone and turned them in — 79 to be receipted for by Lt. Spangler. Had a good bath. Read several...

Rations of flour. Up early. Many officers at Chamberlain's. Off on the cars at 9:30. Gen. Foster on board — don't like his style. L...