On Saturday, the enemy's lower Mississippi fleet attacked our batteries at Port Hudson. The result reported is that only one of their g...

Little of interest to-day at council. The War Department, which early in the War claimed that the armed force on the Western rivers ...

A long gap in my journal, because H–– has been ill unto death with typhoid fever, and I nearly broke down from loss of sleep, there being n...

Headquarters Second Brigade, Second Div., Fifteenth A. C, Camp Before Vicksburg , April 27, 1863. My Dear Mother: “Man proposes a...

Disappointed in the S.[upreme] C.[ourt] by the postponement of the School cases, I hastened to C.[abinet] C.[ouncil] where we had a free co...