The only thing new to-day is a dispatch from Gen. Longstreet, before Knoxville, stating that he had been repulsed in an assault upon the pl...

The weather is clear and bright again ; but, oh, how dark and somber the faces of the croakers! The following dispatches have been receiv...

December 29, 1863. My Dearest Mother : We wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. We are very well satisfied with recent A...

MacARTHUR, Arthur , soldier, was born in Springfield, Mass., June 1, 1845; son of Judge Arthur MacArthur (q.v.). In 1849 he went with his f...

Thanksgiving Day. Reports of fighting at Knoxville, Chattanooga, and with Lee. If the result is generally favorable, we shall see daylight ...

The recent victory of Grant near Chattanooga seems to be very complete. We have not heard from Burnside, besieged in Knoxville by Longstree...

Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 26, 1863. MY DEAR NICOLAY: The newspapers of this morning have told you all you want to know, a...

Ditto, Ditto. — Dined with General Cox. He has a plan of operations for the Government forces which I like: To hold the railroad from Memph...

Tullahoma, Tenn. , November 28, 1863. We are in the midst of exciting news from the front, yet we have had no particulars. It is eviden...

I must describe an adventure I had in Kingsville. Of course, I know nothing of children: in point of fact, am awfully afraid of them. M...

On my return from the North, I was pleased to find your very welcome and interesting letter of the 30th ult., and I hasten to assure you, y...

Culpepper C. H., Va ., April 22, 1864. . . . We have been reviewing the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac, General Hancock commanding. ...

Culpepper C. H., Va. , April 15, 1864. . . . The General returned this afternoon from his Annapolis visit. The railroad guards at one o...

Nashville , February 15, 1864. . . . General Grant talks some of going to Chattanooga this week. I don't know whether he will or no...

Nashville , February 13, 1864 . . . This is my thirty-third birthday. In looking back to my earliest remembrance of events, how full of ...

Nashville , February 9, 1864. . . . I have written to no one at Washington to look after my confirmation nor sought to influence any on...

Chattanooga , Jan. 23, 1864. . . . In one view you behold the mountains of several States, including the gorge in Taylor's Ridge at...

The Chattanooga Campaign Edited by Steven E. Woodworth & Charles D. Grear Sometimes an event is so complex that a single narrat...

LANCASTER, OHIO, Dec. 29, 1863. My Dear Brother:   . . . I hear you have gone on to New York, and therefore I must go off without ...

Chattanooga, Tennessee, December 2, 1863. FOR the last three weeks I have not only been busy, but have had company occupying my room,...