Friday the 10 
     we got to about 14 miles from here 

Saturday the 11 
     we got home before night very tired and muddy 

Sunday the 12 
     this is a nice day today 

Monday the 13 
     this is a right cold day and we have got good quarters in a nice room 

Tuesday the 1 
     it is too muddy to drill now 

Wednesday the 15 
     the weather is not cold for this time of year 

Thursday the 16 
     this is a rainy day 

Friday the 17 
     still raining 

Saturday the 18 
     raining today 

Sunday the 19 
     the river is getting very high and still raining 

Monday the 20 
     the river is very high but not quite so high as it was in September 

Tuesday the 21 
     today is quite cool

Wednesday the 22 
     this is a cold day - we had a mob in town yesterday - there was 2 young men just come home from the Seceesh camp they had been confined in the "S" camp for seen months - they had a hard time of it they did not get anything to eat o do them any good - they look quite emaciated - they accused Denzel Bassel of helping to heap affliction on them so when he came to town they had a interview with him and after they were done talking with him - some of our boys commenced to strike him and they pounded him and abused him so that he was not able to walk for some time - it was a disgusting thing as could be and I think a low thing to be guilty - it is snowing today 

Thursday the 23 
     this is cold weather 

Friday the 24 
     nothing of any importance today 

Saturday the 25 
     nothing to but drill a little 

Sunday the 26 
     this is a nice day 

Monday the 27 
     today is warm 

Tuesday the 28 
     dull 

Wednesday the 29 
     warm for the time of hear 

Thursday the 30 

Friday the 31 
     today snow and we have a Regimental inspection but the snow is so soft that we can not do it 

February the 1 Saturday (February, 1862) 
     the snow is gone and it is raining again 

Sunday the 2 
     this is a nice day and we are having our arms and clothing inspected today 

Monday the 3 
     this morning it is raining again 

Tuesday the 4 
     it is raining again 

Wednesday the 5 
     nothing unusual today - we have some rain 

Thursday the 6 
     this is a chilly day and I have to go on patrol tonight or at 3 o'clock AM 

Friday the 7 
     we have a dress parade at 3 o'clock PM and the order is for us to drill 4 hours for the future 

Saturday the 8 
     it is snowing this evening 

Sunday the 9 
     a dull day 

Monday the 10 
     nothing of importance today 

Tuesday the 11 
     nothing of much importance today - we have plenty of mud 

Wednesday the 12 
     this is a lovely day again and we are not drilling today - I was very sick this evening 

Thursday the 13 
     we had a quite mob today in camp and there was three or four fights before they could be settled - it was a scandal 

Friday the 14 
     this is a gloomy day and it snows and rains alternately and is a bad day 

Saturday the 15 
     this is a snowy day and is quite cold 

Sunday the 16 
     this is the coldest morning we have had this winter - yesterday we got the intelligence of the taking of Fort Donnelson and Fort Henry - we hailed the news with joy 

Monday the 17 
     this is a very disagreeable day - the snow has went off and the mud is deep 

Tuesday the 18 
     this is a fair day and we have orders to march tomorrow morning 

Wednesday the 19 
     this is a gloomy morning to march but we have to go - well we started about ten and a half o'clodk AM - the raining just as hard as it can and we have to carry our knapsacks - well we got to the widow Milles one mile from the Middle Fork bridge - it was a cold night the snow was blowing hard - this is the meanest woman that I ever met with in my life - she is a fiend in the shape of a woman 

Thursday the 20 
     this is a cold morning and we are stiff and sore - we traveled ten and one half miles yesterdays - this is a good day to march - we got our knapsacks hauled today and we got to the Crane farm at Romney Creek about 14 miles from Mills - the scenery today was picturesque and grand - the towering mountains did look delightful - we slept in a deserted house - we had a good fire all night and rested well - on 

Friday the 21 
     this morning we took a early breakfast and started on ahead of the wagons to see the ritche mountain battleground - well the scenery is beautiful indeed - we seen where 13 of the brave Indiana boys were interred and all of where the Rebels had made trenches to stand and shoot our men - but our brave boys and at the head of the trench they had a board with the inscription on it that it was for the graves of the Northern abolitionists but it happened to be their own graves - the scenery from this mountain is grand and beautiful - we seen one tree where a cannon ball went through it - it was a chestnut tree - we went on till we got to Beverly and took dinner there and then went to a farmes by the name of Furises - we traveled about 19 miles today - we come to Hutterville for dinner today and then went on to Elkewater about sundown - I went in to a small shanty and stayed till morning 

Sunday the 23 
     this is a gloomy morning and we have plenty of mud - we have got a cabin that one of the Ohio companies have just left they belong to the 24 Ohio Regiment and 2 of their companies have left this morning and our boys will occupy their quarters - our cabin is the dirtiest place that I ever seen in my life for any white men to live in - we have been working all day to get it clean - there is 4 of us Corporal Carr and Bumgardner and Towles and myself - we have right good quarters 

Monday the 24 
     this is a rainy morning - I slept first late last night - Bumgardner went on picket yesterday morning and will stay 48 hours 

Tuesday the 25 
     this is a beautiful morning and we have to go on picket today - our post is about 2   miles from camp - it is an old house right in the bottom - this is a very nice place to stnd guard and one of the most romantic places I ever was in all my life - the birds seem lonesome - for they do not chirp nor sing and seem sad - last night while I was on guard the owls hooted from hill to hill so that did not enliven the scene very much for I did not know but what the owls would turn out to be Secesh scouts trying to decoy us from our post - but they were nothing but owls - this thing of 
standing on picket is a dangerous business - especially when the enemy camp is not more than 20 miles from the post - for it would be easy for them to come and surround the picket and take them all prisoners - this is about the farthest out post that we have - there is a rallying post one mile below here at the junction of the river - there is another post up the branch and one up the river on the other side - our post is on the Elkewater - it is a beautiful stream - the water is as transparent as ether and very swift - there is beautiful stones and gravel in its bottom - they are of all shapes and sizes and colors - those river bottoms are very likely to overflow for the channel is very shalllow - all the level land in this country is very fertile and productive if properly cultivated but there is nothing but desolation here at this time - there is plenty of game in this country - there is plenty wild turkeys here - there is 2 of their heads where the Ohio boys had killed and eat while on picket as one of their boys said he seen ten deer in one gang - he says they are plenty of them and plenty of wild hogs 

Wednesday the 26 
     the wind has been blowing all night and it got a little calm this morning but the wind has raised again and it is cloudy and is going to snow - it has snowed some and has turned to rain - we got some milk for our coffee today - there was fourteen head of cows came here to eat on the commons so we milked one of them - they are good cows and are in good order for the time of year - there is more rats in this old house than you could count - some of the pickets killed a large pile of them - the rain has ceased and the wind has raised and it is getting very cold - this is a 
hard night to stand guard - we stand 2 hours at a term - there is 5 of us on the post with the corporal 

Thursday the 27 
     this is a cold morning and we are released this morning - this evening we got detached to guard the post commissary - our squad of our will go - they have went and I am going tomorrow morning 

Friday the 28 
     this morning we have a inspection of arms - it was so cold that they did not detain us long - after that we went down to the commissary - we was very busy all day cleaning up things 

Saturday the 1st of March (March, 1862) 
     This is a cold morning but it is going to be a nice day - I am washing my clothes today - we have to stand guard three hours every night - I stand from nine till twelve every night - that is all the duty we have to perform 

Sunday the 2 
     this is a rainy morning and it is thundering very loud - I think it is going to turn cold 

Monday the 3 
     this is a cold day again 

Tuesday the 4 
     this is a cold day again - nothing going on 

Wednesday the 5 
     today is cold - I had a call to go to camp - there was 3 patients with mumps - they were not very bad - this evening I had a call to go to camp and see a patient in Company K - he did not seem so very bad - I left him at 7 o'clock PM and at 2 in the morning they sent for me - he was dying - his disease was congestion of the lungs and brain - he died at 8 o'clock in the morning - they interred him near the camp in the evening - his death was very unexpected and sudden 

Thursday the 6 
     today the paymaster paid us off for 2 months - this is a cold day again 

Friday the 7 
     the weather is still cold and dry 

Saturday the 8 
     todoay is cold - we are still guarding the commissary 

Sunday the 9 
     this is a clear and cool day but nice weather 

Monday the 10 
     this is a clear day and nice weather 

Tuesday the 11 
     we sent out a scout on Sunday morning of one hundred men - they went to Webster County - this evening they came - or part of them did - the brought 5 or 6 prisoners with them - they got 12 Lieutenants from the Secesh -they was brothers - they had come home on a furlough and changed their clothes - they brought one woman with them - we had 2 men wounded - one mortal and the other slight - they were out of Company K 

Wednesday the 12 
     a fine day 

Thursday the 13 
     this is a beautiful day - we are still guarding things here 

Friday the 14 
     this is a glorious day - we had some of he scouts o come back last night - the say that the wounded man is better - they left him at a Union mans house - they will all get home today - this is one of the nicest day that we have had yet - the frogs are hollering like Boston and the robins and spring birds are singing like summer - it makes me want to be at home