Diary of an Enlisted Man

Good-bye, Camp Parapet--Going up the river--Stop at Springfield--Landing--Before the works--Capt. Gifford missing--The first assault--Stealing honey--Scared by a snake--The seco...

CAMP MILLINGTON. We were too tired last night to look about and see where we were. This morning we were ourselves again, and began to take stock of our surroundings. We are in a...

_Thursday._ Was up early, and after breakfast started for the McClellan to get my trunk. I bargained with an expressman to take it and myself to the Ponchartrain Railroad, where...

Mustered into the service again--Waiting for orders--Up the Bayou Teche--Stealing a horse--Meeting the owner--At Mouton's Plantation--The return across the prairie--A sham battl...

PORT HUDSON, LA. _Friday._ The rebel troops are going off by the boat-load. Guards have been placed over the sugar and molasses, also the corn. As fast as the paroles can be mad...

COTTON PRESS. _Saturday._ I slept until called this morning, and was not through with my nap then. I had breakfast with the quartermaster and then set out to get acquainted with...

calls for 300,000 more men. I wonder if he knows what an army we are raising for him here. Report says an accident between here and Algiers last night killed twelve soldiers and...

Just at night, as I had finished the above, the Laurel Hill, the boat that brought us from quarantine to Chalmette, tied up in front of camp and down came our tents and on board...

HUDSON CAMP GROUNDS. I have enlisted! Joined the Army of Uncle Sam for three years, or the war, whichever may end first. Thirteen dollars per month, board, clothes and traveling...

I reached New York on my return journey Feb. 23, and sent my trunk to the Creole, which was to sail the next morning. Returning to the Washington Hotel for the night, I found Da...

I handed over, and was going on when he stopped me to know if I would receive an old man's blessing. I stopped, not knowing what to say or do, when he raised his hands above my...

_Sunday._ The sun was shining bright, and the flies were crawling over my bloody face, and hands when I awoke. Tony had got in and had found some hard-tack and a piece of beef f...

We are nearly out of sight of land. Wild ducks and geese cover the water. The sun is just coming up, and seems to me I never saw such a lovely morning. Besides the ducks and gee...

_Monday._ Was too busy yesterday to even write in my diary. A general order from department headquarters came and was read to us in the morning. Several enlisted men and some co...

_Saturday._ Reveille at 3.30 A. M., breakfast at 4.00, and at 4.30 we were off. The road followed the river, which is very crooked, making it nearly double the distance it would...

_Six p. m._ On board the steamship Oregon, bound for New York City. We had a busy time getting off. Crowds upon crowds of people lined the way from the camp ground to the steamb...

Towards night the Arago swung up to the bank near the big brick building and we went ashore and piled into it. It was built for storing cotton, and is fireproof. The lower floor...

_Sunday._ Hip, Hip, Hurrah! The Laurel Hill, a steamer, has stopped at our camp and we have orders to pack up for a move. All that are able are to be taken to Chalmette, the old...

on a scout to Ponchatoula, and that completed the cure. We then went to Port Hudson and through the siege of six weeks before the works there, and were rewarded by being one of...

Soon after the order to report at New Orleans for muster-out was received, we left Morganzia and went into camp in the outskirts of New Orleans. We unloaded our things on the le...

Good-bye, Camp Parapet--Going up the river--Stop at Springfield Landing--Before the works--Capt. Gifford missing--The first assault--Stealing honey--Scared by a snake--The secon...

Mustered into the service again--Waiting for orders--Up the Bayou Teche--Stealing a horse--Meeting the owner--At Mouton's Plantation--The return across the prairie--A sham battl...