WE LEAVE VIRGINIA. NEWBERN. On the 5th of this month the 23d and 25th Massachusetts embarked on the steamer Winona, from Bermuda Hundred b...

YORKTOWN. On the 27th of April we broke camp at Getty's station, arriving here about dark, and marched up the Williamsburg road about ...

WE LEAVE YORKTOWN. On the afternoon of the 4th we went aboard the boats and dropped anchor at Fortress Monroe at dusk. The next morning we...

ON THE SICK LIST. Since the affair over on the railroad, I have been on the sick list and have suffered severely with chills and fever and...

NEWPORT News, VA., Dec. 1, 1863. On receipt of my furlough, which came promptly to hand at the appointed time, I, in company with eight o...

THE BOYS' STORY. For the past day or two I have been a good deal amused and interested in hearing the boys relate their adventures at ...

EVACUATION. The steamer Thomas Collyer arrived last night, bringing dispatches of some kind, but just what we were unable to find out. Thi...

ALL QUIET ON THE ROANOKE. The noise of the battle is over and we are longer harassed by war's dread alarms, but can now sit down, eat ...

The garrison here consists of companies G, Capt. Swift, and H, Capt. Sanford, of the 27th Massachusetts; company D, Capt. Howard, of the 5th...

GEN. FOSTER ARRIVES. Gen. Foster arrived this morning and went to work laying out a fort and other defences which we are to build. That jo...

A TRIP INTO THE COUNTRY.  After nearly two months of scrubbing and cleaning, with new caps and pants, the 25th regiment stands in column of ...

THE LANDING AND MARCH. The morning of the 13th was dark and rainy, and we made preparations to land. It always rains where we go; first...

BATTLE OF ROANOKE ISLAND. At daylight, the order to fall in was heard on all sides. Putting on my equipments and taking Spitfire and a ...

Reveille beat at 6 o'clock this morning, and all hands turned out in the midst of a driving snow storm, elated at the prospect of getti...

NEW YORK, March 19. – The following are the details of the battle of Newberne: Com. Case was in command of the fleet of Gunboats, and ...

Mr. McManus received a letter from his son yesterday, in which he says his regiment was engaged in the fight at Newbern all day.  He went th...

FT. MONROE, February 13. The gun-boat Stars and Stripes arrived this noon from Burnside’s expedition with a bearer of dispatches for the Go...