New Orleans , December 4th, 1862. Dear Sir : The mail is about to close and I write in haste, to inform you of the result of the electi...

Camp at Lagrange, Tenn., November 15, 1862. We're having more of a rest here than we anticipated when we arrived. Suppose that the ...

Cincinnati , November 12, 1862. Dear Uncle : — Your letter, also the apples, came safely to hand. The apples were finer than usual. The...

Vienna, 20 Favoriten Strasse, Wieden, November 25, 1862. Dearest Little Mary : We jog on here much as usual. We are fortunate in our ...

There is a rumor to-day that we are upon the eve of a great battle on the Rappahannock. I doubt it not. I am sorry to see that Col. McRa...

It is a month since I have opened this book and been able to make any record of current events. A pressure of public business, the preparat...

Hon. James A. Seddon (Va.) has been appointed Secretary of War. He is an able man (purely a civilian), and was member of our Revolutionary ...

The President has rebuked the Secretary of War in round terms for ordering Gen. Holmes to assume the command on this side the Mississippi. ...

A day or two ago some soldiers marched through the city without shoes, in the snow. A committee of citizens to-day obtained an order from ...

It is too true that Charleston, Va., and the great Kanawha salt works have been abandoned by Gen. Echols for the want of an adequate force ...

The European statesmen, declining intervention in our behalf, have, nevertheless, complimented our President by saying he has, at all event...

I believe the commissaries and quartermasters are cheating the government. The Quartermaster-General sent in a paper, to-day, saying he did...

If it be not a Yankee electioneering trick to operate at the election in New York, on the fourth of November, the Northern correspondence w...

The news from Kentucky is very vague. It seems there has been a battle, which resulted favorably for us, so far as the casualties are conce...

Had a long interview with Governor Morgan on affairs in New York and the country. He says Wadsworth will be elected by an overwhelming majo...

The enemy have postponed drafting, that compulsory mode of getting men being unpopular, until after the October elections. I hope Lee will ...

We have lately had a little fight on the Blackwater. The Yankees intended to take General Pryor by surprise, but he was wide awake, and rea...

Boston , 8th November, '62. My Dear Sir , — I send you Mr. Livermore's Memoir on the employment of slaves and Africans during o...

Shady Hill , 12 November, 1862. . . . Were it not for one or two ifs, I should feel much better about the state of affairs than I have ...

Shady Hill , 30 September, 1862. Your note was most welcome. It was delightful to exchange congratulations on the Declaration, not of I...