The sky is overcast with clouds, a cool breeze comes from the west, which makes the temperature delightful. I have been out berrying, and ha...

Last Wednesday we moved from our encampment at Mound Bluff Church, and after two days' marching, came to this place, and we are now enca...

While waiting for the brigade to move, I will endeavor to write up what transpired yesterday. At about I A. M. we were aroused from sleep wi...

Yesterday morning the brigade left Canton, heading northwest. We made twenty miles and encamped for the night in a grove convenient to water...

Left camp in the vicinity of Yazoo yesterday morning at daylight, and after a hard day's march nearly due south, arrived at the Big Blac...

On Sunday evening left Big Black and moved to Church, occupying our old camping ground of May 20th, where we are resting and waiting orders....

PARKE'S, July 3, 1863. General GRANT: I am this moment in, and have your dispatch. Telegraph me the moment you have Vicksburg in posse...

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

HEADQUARTERS,           Before Jackson, Miss., July 12 , 1863 -- 12 m. Port Hudson being ours, and Holmes repulsed at Helena, the Missou...

NEAR VICKSBURG, MISS., June 22 , 1863 . Maj. Gen. WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, Comdg. Fifteenth Army Corps: Information just received indicates ...

AT McCALL'S, June 23 , 1863 — 11 a.m. DEAR GENERAL: Parke, with Smith's division and one brigade of his Yankee troops, is on the...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE,           Near Vicksburg, June 25, 1863. Maj. Gen. W. T. SHERMAN, Commanding Expedition: GENERAL:...

NEAR VICKSBURG, MISS., June 26, 1863. H. W. HALLECK,           General-in- Chief: Yesterday a mine was sprung under the enemy's most co...

HEADQUARTERS FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS,           Camp at Bear Creek, June 2 7, 1863. SIR: It was my purpose to have come to headquarters yesterd...

June 29th 1863 Dear Julia, During the present week I think the fate of Vicksburg will be decided. Johnston is still hovering beyond the Blac...

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 49.} HDQRS. FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS,           Camp at Bear Creek, June 29, 1863. The following modifications of existing ...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE,           Near Vicksburg, June 29, 1863. Maj. Gen. WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, Comdg. Fifteenth, Army Corp...

HDQRS. THIRTEENTH A. C., Near Vicksburg, July 1 , 1863 . Lieut. Col. JOHN A. RAWLINS, A. A. G., Dept. of the Tennessee: COLONEL: I have...

[July 1, 1863.] One of the men who gave himself up is confined here here   is about three miles from here his wife is sick expected to di...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE, July 1, 1863. GENERAL: I am just in from a circuit. All is absolutely silent along Big Black Rive...