Everything quiet—no signs of the enemy and I do not think they will make an attempt against Yorktown unless with a much larger force than th...

Our guns are on the field somewhere, they are Enfield rifles, and report says they are good ones; they have been distributed to the guard, b...

Clear and pleasant. Cannon heard down the river. Mr. E. A. Pollard, taken by the Federals in an attempt to run the blockade last spring, h...

Clear and frosty. We learn vaguely that the attack on the defenses of Wilmington has been progressing since Friday, and that the enemy'...

Cloudy and cool. Cannon heard down the river. No war news. But blockade-running at Wilmington has ceased; and common calico, now at $25 pe...

Notwithstanding the alleged ceaseless vigilance of the Yankee navy in watching blockade-runners on the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the Confed...

Calm and quiet; indications of snow. By a communication sent to Congress, by the President, it is ascertained that 500,000 pairs shoes, 8,...

General James Watson Webb called on me. He has been laid up by the gout at his son-in-law's, Major Benton's, house. He came home fro...

The Freedmen's Bureau wants three boats which are on the Tombigbee. They were blockade-runners which were ordered to be turned over to t...

Raining alternate hours and warm. Had a chill this morning, and afterward several spells of blindness, from rushes of blood to the head. Cam...

Rained last night; clear to-day. We hear of great rejoicing in the United States over the fall of Atlanta, and this may be premature. Pres...

We had calm and delightful weather. Were amused as persons on shipboard usually are. Off the entrance to Cape Fear we had some fishing. Saw ...

Very hot; very dry; very dusty. The President has directed the late Gen. (now Lieut.-Col.) Pemberton to organize a mortar and cavalry force ...

The President was some indisposed and in bed, but not seriously ill. The members met in his bedroom. Seward had a paper for excluding blocka...

I called at the Executive Mansion at precisely ten this A.M. The President was not in. Mr. Attorney-General Speed came in soon after, and, w...

Private Wabash 1. June. 62  My Dear Friend  I must have a slight growl. You ought not to take the 'Flag' from me. I nursed her, plan...

Confidential  Wabash, 31. May. 62.  My Dear Sir  I found the accumulation of men from Prizes so great and the Bienville's Engines so pre...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,       New Orleans, May 16 , 1862 . Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: SIR: Since my dispa...

Off St. Augustine 14 March 62 My Dear Sir All these reports are interesting. Do have them published, they encourage the officers mo...

Boston, 31 October, 1863. Your note about Sumner's speech was duly received and has been used so that it will do good. Being marked...