11th. Sunday. Stayed at home again and read the Independent and home letters telling of M.’s marriage.

Sunday, 11th–We received orders to be ready to march early in the morning for Memphis. The report in camp is that we are to go on down the Mississippi river. The Fourth Brigade of the Third Division came in at 5 o’clock in the evening and relieved our brigade. A detail from the Eighty-first Illinois [...]

The following diary entry contains wording that is offensive to many in the world of today. However, the entry is provided unedited for its historical content and context. Washington Sunday Jan’y 11th 1863 Attended religious service in the Senate Chamber this morning. If the service was not so very interesting, one can endure even a [...]

JANUARY 11th.—The message of Gov. Seymour, of New York, if I am not mistaken in its import and purposes, will have a distracting effect on the subjugation programme of the government at Washington. I shall look for riots, and perhaps rebellions and civil wars in the North. Mr. Stanley, ycleped Governor of North Carolina, has [...]