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...

THE "DREUX SKIRMISH." It pains me no litle to write the following account of this sad affair, but it was my intention when I fir...

On the 5th instant a scouting party, under Captain Lawson, started for Middle Fork bridge, a point eighteen miles from camp. At eight o'...

This morning, at seven o'clock, our tents were struck, and, with General McClellan and staff in advance, we moved to Middle Fork bridge....

First division, and one section of our battery and two sections of Hazlett's Battery, went across the Potomac as far as Kearneysville. W...

In the evening, some of the Thirty-fourth New York Regiment crossed the river, had a skirmish with the rebels, and returned with the loss of...

Was again made "officer of the day." Have ridden on horseback about twenty-five miles today and feel very tired. Had a scare in ca...

BEAUFORT, S. C. November 24. Today our companies E and K have proved themselves worthy, in a skirmish over the river, of all the praises t...

According to orders from our General, Colonel McNairy, setting out from his camp, five miles south of Albany, with about seventy-five of his...

Report of Maj. George F. McCabe, Thirteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry. HDQRS. DETACHMENT 13TH PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY,           March 10, 1864. L...

No. 3. Report of Lieut. Col. John S. Mosby, Forty-third Virginia Cavalry Battalion, including operations to May 1. SEPTEMBER 11, 1864. COLON...

HERRON'S HEADQUARTERS, June 24 , 1863 . We had a sharp little skirmish this evening while moving farther, but succeeded in gaining th...

To-day our regiment is detailed to advance with the picket line and protect a fatigue party while building roads and bridges for the advance...

Rebels attacked our picket line and drove it after a brisk skirmish. (The) Twenty-third and Thirty-sixth supporting soon check the Rebels. O...

Eden Ferry, Ogeechee river,  December 6, 1864.  We lay in camp until 1 p. m. when we suddenly pulled out and made this point, and had works ...

Rebels attacked our picket line and drove it after a brisk skirmish. (The) Twenty-third and Thirty-sixth supporting soon check the Rebels. O...

WE GO OUT MAKING CALLS.  For some time past the pickets of the 17th Massachusetts have been a good deal troubled by being fired on in the ni...

Near Macon, Ga., November 21, 1864. This makes seven days from Atlanta, 114 miles by the roads we have marched. I think that time for a...

No. 109. Report of Capt. Leander S. McGraw, One hundred and seventh Illinois Infantry, of operations  November 23-December 1, 1864. ...

Up at 4. Rain froze as it fell. Awfully cold. At 5:30 “To horse” sounded. Soon a yell went up near the 2nd Brig., then a few shots. We were...