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

Division left Mobile on April 22 and arrived at Selma on April 27; thoughts about President Lincoln’s assassination; provisions for troops; regiment serving as provost guards in the city; readiness to return home

Troops camped around Mobile; possibility of being mustered out soon; news of the murder of Kirby Smith; impact of the abolition of slavery on African-Americans; plans for spending the bounty he will receive when mustered out

Rumors of being mustered out; explosion that happened there on April 25; inflated prices of goods there; impact of the war on that region

Orders for mustering out the regiment have been received, with plans to reach Ohio and home by July 4; division narrowly missed a trip to Texas; the destiny of John Wilkes Booth, according to Universalists; thoughts about the destiny of the soldiers of the Republic who have fallen in battle and John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem, “The Eternal Goodness”

Ordered to Kennerville or Kenner, 20 miles from New Orleans; Gen. Davison’s commanding style; consolidation of the 48th & 83rd Ohio; African-American troops’ skill in manueuvers of the school of the battalion; changes that the war has brought them

Boarded the steamer John A. Rice at Mobile and headed towards the Gulf; rough passage to Galveston; conditions of men and rations there

Suffering from neuralgia caused by a decaying tooth; prospect for mustering out and returning to Ohio