NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 23, 1861. DEAR MR. BOYD: I fear from our experience here the cadets did not have a good time of it last night. It rained...

Cloudy——rained in the afternoon. This is the anniversary of the first gun of the war, fired at Fort Sumter. It is still said and believe...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,       New Orleans, May 16 , 1862 . Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: SIR: Since my dispa...

(Private) New Orleans , January 15th, 1863. Dear Sir : A fight is progressing on Bayou Teche. Gen. Weitzel commands. He crossed Berwi...

(Private) New Orleans , January 2nd, 1863. Dear Sir : Everything remains nearly as when I last wrote. Troops have been moving up to B...

(Private and unofficial) New Orleans , Oct. 10th, 1862. Dear Sir : I have received your official letter of Sept. 22nd. enclosing le...

Thibodeaux, La ., December 16, 1859. My Dear Sherman : I received your letter from the city. Had your visit only been a week later I co...

Nothing from the armies; but from Charleston it is ascertained that the enemy's batteries on Morris Island have some of the guns pointi...

Baton Rouge , Sunday, November 6, 1859. I wrote you from the Kennett at Cairo - but not from Memphis. I got here last night about dark,...

ST. LOUIS, MO., Sunday, Oct. 23, 1859. Dear SIR: . . . It is absolutely impossible for me to leave here before Thursday of this week,...

At the Cabinet to-day the President read letters from certain Louisiana planters and from General Banks and others, urging the admission of...

HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE GULF, NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS, Before Port Hudson, La. , May 30, 1863. GENERAL: Leaving Simsport, on the Atchafala...

Pass Baton Rouge A. M. while I sleep at Fort Hudson at 1 P. M. Morgans bend at 5 mouth Red river after dark. Lockport passes us at 9. P. M....

Rained very hard during the night, feel much better today & am up most of time, Sanitary Potatoes begin to work — Capt Lacy was out ...

Seems to be the opinion that we will remain here sometime Regt are ordered to clear the brush from about the camp & keep them well poli...

Relieved Eighteenth Indiana, went home on the Iberville. Lieutenant Kerney and myself crossed the river early in the morning. Found Captain...

Pass Port Hudson in the night also Battan Rouge, all day passing through the richest contry I ever saw. fine plantations splendid houses ...

We passed Baton Rouge and Port Hudson entering the mouth of Red river at about noon. On the way up two men hailed us from the shore in the ...

This was the gloomest day to me I remember since the war begun. But it need not have been so, bad I known the true condition of affairs. As...

Before noon the steamer hauled along-side a stationary hulk at Baton Rouge, which once “walked the waters” by the aid of machinery, but whi...