The breach seems to widen between the President and Congress, especially the Senate. A majority of the Committee on Military Affairs have r...

The major-quartermasters and the acting quartermaster-generals (during the illness or absence of Gen. Lawton) are buffeting the project som...

Camp Near Falmouth, Va. Dec. 22nd, 1862. My dear Mother: Since the late disastrous affair at Fredericksburg, as before, I look in v...

There is nothing new from any of the armies, except that my old friend, Gen. Rains, sent to Mississippi, stopped and stampeded Grant's ...

May Day, — Not unworthy of the best effort of English fine weather before the change in the calendar robbed the poets of twelve days, but s...

At 1:30 P. M. a small party started from Mr. Green's to visit the cemetery of Bonaventure, to which every visitor to Savannah must pay ...

This morning up at six, A.M., bade farewell to our hostess and Barnwell Island, and proceeded with Trescot back to the Pocotaligo station, ...

orange C. H ., June 27th, 1863. . . . I was very glad to get your note of the 18th June, and only wish I knew where you were now. We ar...

What a day the Kentuckians have had! Mrs. Webb gave them a breakfast; from there they proceeded en masse to General Lawton's dinner, an...

Wigfall was here last night. He began by wanting to hang Jeff Davis. My husband managed him beautifully. He soon ceased to talk virulent no...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY, 18th January, 1864. BRIG.-GEN. A. R. LAWTON, Quartermaster-General, Richmond. GENERAL: The want of shoes and bla...

WASHINGTON, May 3. According to reliable information from Richmond the planters have determined to raise no tobacco this season, and th...