COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA. The date of May 13th was written at the depot in Augusta, Georgia, and brings me to my arrival at that place. I ...

I spent yesterday morning writing to my precious wife. I wrote two letters; one to take the chances and uncertainties of the mails; the othe...

I left with Decca Stark. There was no incident worth mentioning between Columbia and Winsboro. We met Stark Means at the depot. He is in fin...

Left Raleigh about 9 o'clock yesterday morning. The road from Raleigh to Weldon is the most crooked and through the most broken country ...

Left Richmond yesterday about 6:30 o'clock a. m. Found a number of the Texas Brigade and a few of my regiment on the cars and soon becam...

While we are encamped life is so monotonous that I do not usually regard it as necessary to keep a diary, but occasionally we have a little ...

This morning about daylight we received orders to be ready to march at 8:30. All is bustle now getting ready. I have been to the spring for ...

Bright and clear, warm and pleasant. How well do I remember two short years ago today when we took a sleigh ride and made a regular family v...

Struck out tents early this morning and marched to Colliersville, a distance of seven miles from Lafayette and twenty-four from Memphis. As ...

Quite pleasant during the day, but it rained heavily all night. SOURCE: Seth James Wells,  The Siege of Vicksburg: From the Diary of Seth ...

We had inspection at 1 o'clock. Col. Norton's tent burned today. SOURCE: Seth James Wells,  The Siege of Vicksburg: From the Diary...

I am on guard at the depot today. SOURCE: Seth James Wells,  The Siege of Vicksburg: From the Diary of Seth J. Wells, Including Weeks of P...

Orders are very strict. If caught outside of the pickets the fine is ten dollars. We get up at 4 o'clock in the morning and stack our ar...

The regiment was formed at 4 this morning. In the afternoon we received marching orders. Our division has been moving up all day. Logan'...

We were called up at half past three this morning and were on the road inside an hour, and by sunrise were four miles on the way. We arrived...

We moved into the navy yard this morning. Had seven men detailed for guard. I was one of them. We were put on camp, or chain guard. I don...

I came off guard this morning. It rained very hard all the latter part of the night. Another boat load of troops came down last night, makin...

About six inches of snow fell last night and it has snowed all day. The citizens say it is the heaviest storm they have seen in a number of ...

Corinth. Orders were given to Battery to cook three days' rations in their haversacks and three days' in the wagons, all ready to ma...

Corinth. I walked up to the Battery, the farthest I had walked since my lameness. Saw the boys off; they left their tents standing, their kn...