Nothing of any consequence happened. Camp wore a wintry aspect. The time was mostly occupied in building stables for the horses. Colonel Tom...

RUMORS that the President, the administration, or whoever has it in his hands, is to take the offensive, make a demonstration on Virginia an...

Battle of Ball's Bluff. Gen. Stone crossed the Potomac near Conrad's Ferry, across Harrison's Island, with Col. Baker's brig...

Battery drill, and speech by our First Lieutenant. Gen. Banks visited our camp this evening. Nothing important up to [Saturday, October 19.]...

Gen. Banks and staff honored our battery drill with their presence. Col. Geary of the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania, and Capt. Tompkins, with t...

We have had no fight here yet, but from the indications it can't be deferred much longer. We have drawn one hundred rounds of ammunition...

MANSFIELD, OHIO, Aug. 4, 1872. Dear Brother: . . . Just now all interest is centred upon the Presidential election. As you say, the Republ...

I had an interview with the President concerning Semmes, as understood yesterday. Showed him the papers, and, after some conversation, he pr...

Orders arrived for our remaining section to unite forthwith with the rest of the battery at Darnestown. The morning was beautiful. The batte...

Arrived at Sandy Hook by two o'clock P. M. Relieved the First Battery, the pieces being turned over to us. They started for home in the ...

[ST. LOUIS, MO.] My visit South was in every sense agreeable. My old friends in Alexandria did all they could to make us welcome, and I wa...

Springfield, Illinois, December 24, 1860. My dear Sir: I need a man of Democratic antecedents from New England. I cannot get a fair share ...

General Banks has received the nomination for Congress from the Middlesex district, made vacant by the resignation of Gooch, appointed Naval...

Have been unable to write daily. The President has released A. H. Stephens, Regan, Trenholm, and others on parole, and less dissatisfaction ...

General Banks introduced me to Mrs. Ames, of Massachusetts (artist). She has made a bust of Lincoln (miniature) which seems to be exceedingl...

September 27, 1860. I am much obliged to you for the copy of your brother's speech. It is an able production and marks him, as he had ...

GRANT'S HEADQUARTERS, July 3, 1863. General SHERMAN: I judge Johnston is not coming to Vicksburg; he must be watched, though. I judge ...

NEAR VICKSBURG, MISS.,           July 4, 1863—10.30 a.m. Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK,           General-in-Chief: The enemy surrendered this ...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE,           Near Vicksburg, July 4, 1863. Maj. Gen. N. P. BANKS, Comdg. Department of the Gulf: G...

VICKSBURG, MISS., July 11, 1863. Maj. Gen. N. P. BANKS, Comdg. Department of the Gulf: GENERAL: It is with pleasure I congratulate you up...