Wonderful document. Did you know that when it was noon in Richmond VA, it was 11:18 AM in Mobile AL, and 10:51 AM in Galvezton TX? The authors describe good hotels in which to pass the evening, and offer the following advice:

"There is now no house in Chattanooga that we should care to dignify with the appellation of Hotel, they all having been pressed into the service as hospitals. The city is nothing more nor less than a vast military hospital. A soldier coming down from there on the train the other night, gave a very fair idea of the attractiveness of the place in the following manner. Several were speaking of the lack of accommodation there, when he remarked:

"Well, if I were to be sent to h--l, and had five days furlough to stop in Chattanooga, I should say, drive on boys!"

"In arriving at Montgomery depot by the evening train from Mobile, be careful not to hand your baggage to any stranger who may offer to assist you. Some thieves at this place have a bewitching fashion of relieving travelers of their hand baggage--which is done in this way: as the traveler, with his valise of carpet-bag is about to enter the omnibus, the thief, lantern in hand, stands at the door, as if belonging to the omnibus, and in an authoritative manner says: "It's too much crowded in there to take in your baggage, let me pill it on top o' the 'bus"--and ten chances to one the unthinking traveler falls into the trap, hands over his valise or what-not, and never sees it again. And if you should lose your valise in that way, and go to the police-office in Montgomery, with the hope of giving them something in their way to do, a big burly Irishman will look up at you, half asleep, and say--"How the divil d'ye think I kin find the thafe; an' besides that, the depot is out o' the corporation, an' we haint got no right to go out there to look afther no thafe.'"

"In these times of war and martial law, it is necessary for the traveler to be armed with a passport. In case there are none issued by the local authorities in the neighborhood of his home, he should go to the first Provost Marshal's office on his route and procure one; to do which he must present the necessary vouchers as to his individuality. At every military post through which he may pass, it is necessary to renew the passport or have it countersigned. By following this rule he will save time and annoyance."

"Soldiers, to travel now-a-days, must have correct papers, or it is no go. He must have, in the first place, his furlough; upon that he can get his passports from one military post to another, which he should always be careful to have, as it will save him time and trouble. Transportation is granted at almost every rail-road terminus or junction upon the order of his commanding officer. In case he has not such order, his furlough will entitle him to the soldiers' rate, which, on most of the railroads is about half the usual fare."