The long roll was beaten at 3 o'clock this morning. The company was formed and we marched down to our cotton fort where we lay until day...

WASHINGTON, March 8. – The President’s war order No. 2 , has ordered the army of the Potomac to be divided into Corps D’arme, commanded as...

INTERESTING DETAILS. (Special Correspondence of the Missouri Democrat.) “CROSS HOLLOWS,” ARK. Feb. 25th, 1862 I left Springf...

On the day after the defeat of the union army at Bull Run, in July, 1861, Hon.William Vandever, representative in congress for the Second Io...

BATESVILLE, Ark., May 10. – A flat boat capsized last night in 12 feet of whater, while crossing White River, having on board two officers a...

Organized at Camp Butler, III., and mustered in August 27, 1861. Moved to St. Louis, Mo., September 25, thence to Jefferson City, Mo., and t...