OPENING THE GREAT WILDERNESS BATTLES. Before day bugles blowed, drums beat; men get ready to march. At dawn troops were moving; at sunrise...

Rained hard in the night; clear and pleasant in the morning. A letter from John T. Bourne, St. Georges, Bermuda, says he has some 1800 bar...

  Newberry , S.  C.           , May 2, 1865 . It was well you left Petersburg when you did, for the very next day (April 2) our extreme ri...

Camp near Rappahannock River, Culpeper County, Va., October 20, 1863. This is the first chance I have had to write to you since we started o...

Hospital near Hamilton's Crossing, Va . ,           June 12, 1863. Our corps is lying in line of battle in the trenches, and has been ...

Military Installation Named For Fort A. P. Hill Ambrose Powell Hill Camp Beauregard ...

BERRYVILLE, VA ., August 17 , 1864 — 9 p.m. Lieut. Gen. U.S. GRANT, Commanding Armies of the United States: All your dispatches h...

amelia Court-house , April 5,1S65. Dear Brammia :—Our army is ruined, I fear. We are all safe as yet. Theodore left us sick. John Taylo...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,              July 10 , 1863 — 1 p.m.            (Received 3 . 10 p.m.) Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, ...

A battle was fought on Saturday near Chattanooga and resumed yesterday. Am apprehensive our troops have suffered and perhaps are in danger....

I saw yesterday a specimen of the President's elaborate attention to the matter of appointments. Lient.-Gen. A. P. Hill having asked fo...

Dispatches from the West inform us that three attempts to carry the city of Vicksburg by assault have been repulsed with heavy loss. Johnst...

MILFORD, May 3 , 1863 . President DAVIS: Yesterday General Jackson, with three of his divisions, penetrated to the rear of the enemy...

This morning early the tocsin sounded, and the din, kept up for several hours, intensified the alarm. The presence of the enemy would not h...

Gen. Longstreet lost, it is said, two 32-pounder guns yesterday, with which he was firing on the enemy's gunboats. A force was landed a...

Sunday morning, the 20th of September, the President showed me Rosecrans’ despatches of the day before, detailing the first day's fight...

Several horses were stolen last night, mine nearly so. It is necessary to be very careful, in order to prevent this misfortune. We started ...

I was awoke at daylight by Moses complaining that his valuable trunk, containing much public money, had been stolen from our tent whilst w...

At 6 A.M. I rode to the field with Colonel Manning, and went over that portion of the ground which, after a fierce contest, had been won fr...