Receipt of newspapers recounting the presidential election; reminiscence of being at Oxford when receiving news of the fall of Donelson; Sherman’s capture of Savannah; conjecture about Hood’s army breaking into independent bands; conversations with rebel sympathizers; wishes for more music in the regiment

Moving to a more southern point, such as Kenner, Louisiana or Mobile, Alabama; receipt of newspapers giving accounts of the capture of Fort Fisher

Left Natchez for Pascagoula; description of the rebel Ram Tennessee in Harper’s Weekly was faithful; stopped a short time at Ship Island to let off a detachment of negro troops; seasickness of troops; encamped in a grove about a mile from Fort Barrancas

Rumor circulating among the camps of the brigade that “peace commissioners have gone from Richmond to Washington and that the rebel government is now a suppliant for mercy at the executive mansion”; magnolia trees growing in the area; weather and vegetation conditions; compliments about General Andrews

Quantity and type of provisions for soldiers; preparing for campaign; Gen. Smith’s forces arriving in New Orleans; condition of men in brigade

Newman’s safe arrival; boats arriving with troops bound for Vicksburg; hope that coming campaign will end the war; imminent move to a new hospital;

Victorious surrender of Spanish fort to Snow’s regiment; detailed description of the capture of the fort

Moved inside the rebel fortifications and are encamped on the banks of the Tensas river; occupation of Mobile; toll of the “excessive fatigues & constant excitements of the campaign now successfully closed”

Detailed account of the march of Gen’l Steele’s army from Pensacola to the present place, near Montgomery

News of Lee’s surrender to Grant and of Johnson’s to Sherman; cavalry raiding through Alabama