Clear and warm. Apricots in blossom. At last we have reliable information that Johnston has checked one of Sherman's columns, at Bentonv...

HEADQUARTERS ARMIES CONFEDERATE STATES,           March 20th, 1865. HON. JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE,           SECRETARY OF WAR. Gen. J. E. John...

We advance early this morning. The Seventh are soon deployed on the skirmish line, and are soon skirmishing, for on such occasions the Seven...

This morning the armies are menacing each other face to face, each remaining behind their works. The design of Sherman is to hold him there ...

Twelve miles from Goldsboro, and six from railroad, March 19, 1865. Made 15 miles. Only two bad swamps. Very heavy artillery and musketry on...

One and one-half miles from Neuse River, March 20, 1865. We moved about a mile north and then west for five miles. Pushed some Rebel cavalry...

March 21, 1865. We moved out this morning just before daylight and got within 50 yards of the Rebel skirmish line, but nothing going forwa...

An order from General Sherman was read this morning, stating that the campaign was over, 1 and that we should now prepare to take a short ...

We were off at 7 a. m. and marched ten miles through fine country. The roads were good and no swamps to cross. They had good crops here las...

We advanced our line of battle a half mile, driving in the rebel skirmishers. Our loss was quite large in killed and wounded. All our artil...

ON BOARD STEAMER Russia At Sea, Sunday, March 26, 1865. The railroad was finished yesterday into Goldsboro and I came down to Newbern...

IN THE FIELD, GOLDSBORO, N. C., March 23 , 1865. I wrote you from Fayetteville. On our way thence the enemy struck our left flank and...

THIRTY-FIRST INFANTRY. William Smyth was born in the year 1824. England, Scotland and Ireland are all represented among the Iowa colonels. C...

William W. Belknap, of Keokuk, was the second Colonel. Heredity asserts itself in the transmission of the chivalric spirit of the father to ...