Left camp on the 16th on a scout to hunt up Blythe's forces. Orders came upon us suddenly to prepare two days rations and go in light ma...

Another hard night; one of a few very cold and disagreeable ones. We left the ranks early for rails, and after carrying them two or three mi...

Left Wartrace and arrived at Duck river the same day as guard for rail road bridges and fortifications there, and encamped for the night at ...

Companies A and F received orders to move their camp about half a mile and throw up works to protect a railroad bridge from being burned. Th...

Well, I have had a good sleep, if I did have a hard time getting it. Our cornstalk bed which promised so well, did not prove so. The stalks ...

Have laid on the ground alongside the track resting and sleeping, waiting for the bridge to be repaired so we can go home. SOURCE:  Lawren...

Appearances and talk on the streets last night indicated that they had news that worried them. This morning I learned from a sergeant, that ...

By advancing this morning we discover that the rebels have all made their exit from South river. General Corse again takes the advance. The ...

LYNCHBURG, November 10 , 1861 . His Excellency JEFFERSON DAVIS, President Confederate States: I have received dispatches from Bristol and...

RICHMOND, November 10 , 1861. Col. D. LEADBETTER: COLONEL: Herewith you will receive an order to report to Tennessee, to keep up the line...

CLEVELAND, TENN., November 11 , 1861. JEFFERSON DAVIS,  President: Several bridges burned on E. T. Road. The country in great excitement...

No. 227. Reports of Col. William P. Lyon, Thirteenth Wisconsin Infantry, of operations December 19-21 and 31, 1864. HDQRS. MEMPHIS AND CHARL...

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...

HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE TENN., Near Vicksburg, June 27, 1863. Maj. Gen. STEPHEN A. HURLBUT,           Comdg. Sixteenth Army Corps: GENERAL: You...

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

Clear and dry; pleasant temperature. I learn that Petersburg has not been much injured by the enemy's batteries, and that Gen. Lee has...

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT NORTHEASTERN LOUISIANA,           Young's Point, June 22, 1863. Maj. Gen. U.S. GRANT, Comdg. Department of the Te...

Right Bank Roanoke river, Robbin's Ferry, N. C. May 3, 1865. About 20 miles to-day and the latter fourth quite dusty. We did not get the...

Left bank of Stony Creek, Va., 20 miles from Pittsburg, May 6, 1865. About 20 good miles to-day. No sign of war yet. Have not had a very goo...

Beulah, N. C., April 11, 1865, 12 m. Our division is alone on this road I find, and the extreme right of the army. Our brigade ahead to-da...