Awakened by the guard at 4 a. m.; at daylight go on the street receiving a small day's ration, the fourth issue since our capture. Rain ...

Yesterday we made short marches, halting at every good shade to rest. The heat was very oppressive. At Clinton a brigade was sent to meet th...

Appearances and talk on the streets last night indicated that they had news that worried them. This morning I learned from a sergeant, that ...

Clear and pleasant; subsequently thawing and foggy. Gen. R. E. Lee has been appointed General-in-Chief by the President, in response to the ...

Bright, windy, cold, and disagreeable. There was nothing new at the department this morning. Nothing from below; nothing from South Caroli...

Camp near Lovetsville, Va., Oct. 28th. We bade farewell to Pleasant Valley, and started for the land of "Dixie" quite unexpected...

Clear and cold. No further news from the iron-clad fleet that went down the river. Beef is selling at $8 per pound this morning; wood at...

Clear and pleasant—but little frost. Beef (what little there is in market) sells to-day at $6 per pound; meal, $80 per bushel; white beans, ...

Cloudy and cool. Cannon heard down the river. No war news. But blockade-running at Wilmington has ceased; and common calico, now at $25 pe...

The last day of the year. Snowing and wet. Gen. H. Cobb writes that the existing Conscription Bureau is a failure so far as Georgia, Alabama...

Camp near Orange Court House, Va . , January 3, 1864. The cars ran off the track below Gordonsville yesterday, consequently we have no mai...

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...

Bright and beautiful. All quiet below, save an occasional booming from the fleet. Nothing from Georgia in the papers, save the conjectures...

We were ordered to Beverly Ford, to support Gen. Jeb Stewart, who is engaging the Yankees, and they are having a very hard cavalry fight: Go...

Left here at 5 this morning, got to Richmond at 8, and are stationed at Camp Lee. We will have to march to Fredericksburg. Our brigade is tr...

BEFORE JACKSON, July 14 , 1863 . Good for Richmond. I never attached much importance to the place, but tell me the fate of Lee's army...

CAMP HASTINGS, NEAR CUMBERLAND, February 22, 1865. DEAR MOTHER:— I suppose you have heard of the kidnapping of General Crook and General K...

The President yet remains with the army, and the indications are that a great and perhaps final battle is near. Tom writes me, dating his le...

At day-dawn a salute of several guns was fired. The first discharge proclaimed, as well as words could have done, the capture of Lee and his...

BEHIND VICKSBURG, MISS., June 11, 1863,           VIA MEMPHIS, TENN., June 14. Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief: I have reliabl...