ATLANTA, GA., Nov. 7th, 1864. The last train for the North leaves here to-morrow morning. Our soldiers are scattered along the railroad a ...

October 25. Below I copy verbatim a document that came from one of our best blacks, a man so earnest and brave that he can be depended upo...

April 4. Tomorrow I hear we are to pull up stakes and go on picket duty. This is not easy work, but work of any kind is preferable to inac...

Affairs at the South do not improve. The Secession element is becoming vicious and bad in some quarters, and I fear it may be general. At th...

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

Near Vicksburg Miss. June 11th 1863.           Hon. A. Lincoln President of the United States Sir: Enclosed herewith I send report of Chapla...

Major General Halleck, Genl in Chief My dear Sir I had intended leaving for Washington tomorrow but as circumstances will prevent said trip ...

Baltimore, Oct. 17th-3.50 P. M. Gov. Henry A. Wise: Your dispatches are received and will be forwarded at once by telegraph and horse expres...

Baltimore, Oct. 17, 1859. James Buchanan,           President of the United States, Washington: All the trains on the road are stopped. The ...

STEAMER Ben Deford, FERNANDINA, FLA., January 28, 1863.   While superintending the transfer of the wounded from the John Adams last night, I...

Sunday, February 1, 1863. This morning the Planter , with Capt. [Charles T.] Trowbridge's and Capt. Rogers' companies, met us in St....

CAMP SAXTON, BEAUFORT, S. C. December 27, 1862. . . . There is a little more of solid reality in this work of camp-life than I have ...

[Fort Brown, Texas, 1856] In this enlightened age there are few, I believe, but will acknowledge that slavery, as an institution, is a m...

WASHINGTON, July 21, 1864. Editors of the Enquirer: Since I closed my letter at noon, a new sensation has appeared on the political bo...

SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS No. 15. HDQRS. MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI,                       In the Field, Savannah, Ga.,                Ja...

There is either a most strange delusion, or an obstinate wickedness in men, in relation to this matter of expatriating our colored people —...

As long as Andersonville shall live in the world's memory, (and can its sins and sorrows ever be forgotten?) so long shall it warn men ...

Stanton has waked up and ordered me to plump myself down in Tennessee, right in the centre of the accursed institution, and go to work. Hav...

I need not speak much of the events of last night, which were not unimportant, perhaps to some of the insects which played a leading part i...

The whole civilized world will be startled and horrified by this slaughter of probably not less than five or six hundred persons. The excus...