The opinion seems to be growing that the rebels do not intend to attack us. They have put it off too long. A scouting party will start out...

Was awakened this morning at one o'clock, by a soldier in search of a surgeon. One of our pickets had been wounded. The post was on the ...

The name of our camp is properly Elk Water, not Elk Fork. The little stream which comes down to the river, from which the camp derives its n...

These mountain streams are unreliable. We had come to regard the one on which we are encamped as a quiet, orderly little river, that would b...

Francis Union was shot and killed by one of our own sentinels last night, the ball entering just under the nose. This resulted from the cowa...

With Wagner, Merrill, and Bowen, I rode up the mountain on our left this afternoon. We had one field-glass and two spy-glasses, and obtained...

Last night a sentinel on one of the picket posts halted a stump and demanded the countersign. No response being made, he fired. The entire F...

The Twenty-third Ohio, Colonel Scammon, will be here to-morrow. Stanley Matthews is the lieutenant-colonel of this regiment, and my old frie...

Five companies of the Twenty-third Ohio and five companies of the Ninth Ohio arrived to-day, and are encamped in a maple grove about a mile ...

A gun-boat passed up by Eastport, going perhaps one mile and a half above, then turning, went back down the river without firing a gun. I, w...

Two gun-boats and two transports came up to Chickasaw and landed about one hundred and twenty cavalry and three regiments of infantry about ...

Our battalion moved about nine miles west and went into camps one-half mile south-west of Burnsville, still in Tishamingo County, on the Mem...

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 ...

Six of Captain Allison's Company (J. W. Kennedy, H. L. W. Turney, Jim Thomas, W. E. Rich, Tom O'Conner and B. A. Hancock), whom we h...

Captain Harris and a part of his company were detached from our battalion and started to Tennessee with John Morgan's Squadron for the p...

It was reported that the Federals were at Sulphur Springs, some twelve or fifteen miles from Burnsville. The picket on that road was reenf...

McNairy sent a scout out in the direction of Sulphur Springs. On returning they reported no Federals there. SOURCE: Richard R. Hancock,  H...

After dinner with Ellie to No. 24, where I left her, and then seeing a glow in the southern sky over the roof of the Union Place Hotel, I st...

Last night’s Elm Street fire was a sad business. Some eighteen or twenty people perished. There was another fire in Lexington Avenue (dwelli...

Just from opera, Puritani, with Ellie and Mrs. Georgey Peters and Dr. Carroll. Little Patti, the new prima donna, made a brilliant success. ...