Sunday, 13th–The Eleventh and the Fifteenth Iowa, together with the Twelfth Wisconsin, all veterans, went aboard the “Continental” this afternoon and about dark left for the North. I could not go with my regiment, as I have not yet been relieved from guard duty at the roundhouse.

March, Sunday 13, 1864       Hopes, what are they? Beads of morning       Strung on Slender blades of Grass,       Sweet is hope’s wild warbled air       But oh!— it’s echo is despair! Today is the first anniversary of the happiest day in my life—just one short year ago, twas then on Friday morning, he came for me to [...]

MARCH 13th.—A lovely spring day–bright, warm, and calm. There is nothing new, only the burning of houses, mills, etc. on the York River by the Yankees, and that is nothing new. Subsequently the day became very windy, but not cold. The roads will be dry again, and military operations will be resumed. The campaign will [...]