Thursday, 12th–The Eleventh Iowa received two months’ pay, I receiving $26.00. We commenced to cut the levee today, but shortly after we got started the order was countermanded.

12th. Capt. Nettleton called and gave me a line from home and told me about his visit. Read two or three good lectures in “Currents and Countercurrents.” Went down to Co. H in the evening. Visited with the boys.

Thursday March 12th 1863 A bright pleasant morning but followed by snow and wind, quite cold tonight. Capt Swan came up from the Army and called on me today. Maj E. P. Taft got a furlough to go home and was in one of the Govt offices this morning haveing his papers approved when he [...]

  MARCH 12th.—To-day we have no army news. Mr. Richard Smith issued the first number of The Sentinel yesterday morning. Thus we have five daily morning papers, all on half sheets. The Sentinel has a biography of the President, and may aspire to be the “organ.” John Mitchel, the Irishman, who was sentenced to a [...]

March 12th, 1863.–More bad news to write in my diary. Sweet little Susie died before day this morning. She was so pretty. Except cousin Rich, she was the best looking one of the family. She loved him devotedly and ever since he was killed she seemed to be thinking of him all the time. When [...]

March 12, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The shrewd correspondent of the Savannah Republican, ‘P.W.A.’ writing from this city on the 10th instant, says: It is not probable that the enemy will abandon the Southern coast without making an attack upon Charleston of Savannah. Their expenditures of money have been too heavy, and their preparations too [...]

March 12, 1863, The New York Herald RUTHERFORD’S CREEK, FOUR MILES NORTH OF COLUMBIA, March 11, 1863. General Granger came up with the enemy at this place yesterday afternoon. The advance guard were skirmishing yesterday, and lost two killed and several wounded, but captured several rebels. One of them reports that Col. Coburn, with two [...]

March 12, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MERCURY.) RICHMOND, Friday, March 7. It was a relief to us to hear that the Indianola had not been blown up. One of our papers recommends that the parties connected with the disgraceful affair (if such it was) be branded with the letters T. M., and [...]

March 12, 1863, The New York Herald General Hooker had a long conference in Washington yesterday with the President, Gen. Halleck, Mr. Stanton and the Committee on the Conduct of the War, and returned to the Rappahannock last night. A reconnoitering party sent out a few days ago, consisting of a detachment of the First [...]