Bright and pleasant. The city is in great excitement and joy. Gen. Early has gained a victory in Maryland, near Frederick, defeating Gen. ...

A steady, gentle rain from 8 A.M. till 4 P.M. A dispatch from Gen. Hood, who relieves Gen. Johnston, was received to-day. It was in cipher...

The Rebels captured a train of cars on the Philadelphia and Baltimore Road, and have burnt the bridges over Gunpowder and Bush Rivers. It ...

The Rebels are upon us. Having visited upper Maryland, they are turning their attention hitherward. General Wallace has been defeated, and ...

WASHINGTON, July 10 , 1864 — 2 . 30 p.m. Lieutenant-General GRANT: Your dispatch to General Halleck referring to what I may think i...

The Tenth Vermont, Fourteenth New Jersey and the rest of our brigade as usual, not only proudly led the Division at first by a good deal in...

We received orders at 10 o'clock last night to march at 2 o'clock this morning which we did. Daylight brought us up near Opequan Cr...

Marched about 5 o'clock a. m.; took a crossroad and went to the Rockville and Alexandria pike; hard march; camped at Hyattstown; are he...

Remained in camp until 8 o'clock a. m. and then marched up Pennsylvania Avenue by the Treasury, White House and War Department, amidst ...

Oh! I'm so tired and used up I can hardly write; have been marching all day on the pike, and my feet are badly blistered, besides being...

We left Frederick under the cover of darkness last night, and after marching a round-about way which took nearly all night, brought up at F...

Two boat-loads of our Division landed last night at 11 o'clock. We took the cars at once for Frederick, Md., and arrived there at 10 o...

Fine morning. Had an early swim in the good clean waters of the Monocacy River. Later hunted up some bait, sat under a large tree to try my...

Tenallytown , July 11, 1864. There is no end of confusion out here, and very little known of the enemy. I took over our 1st squadron, w...

July 6, 1864 We have no rain here — never expect any; air hazy with a faint dust, finer than twice volted flour, which settles on ever...

. . . July 9th, by a large force of rebels. His loss is said to be about 1,000. – Published in The Union Sentinel , Osceola, Iowa, Saturday...

Official dispatch from [General] Wallace states that a battle took [place] between our forces under his command and the rebels at Monocacy t...

{From Hawk-Eye} BALTIMORE, July 11.– Some rebel cavalry burned the residence of Governor Bradford this A. M., four miles from this city. The...