Cloudy, cold, and dismal. We have no news except from the North, whence we learn Lieut. Beall, one of our Canada raiders, has been hung; tha...

[St. Louis, March 24, 1866] I am sorry to hear that the President is likely to break with the party. It should not be, but Congress should...

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION                     OF THE MISSISSIPPI,           ST. Louis, Mo., April 2, 1866. Dear Brother: I know the rai...

A furious storm of wind and rain occurred last night, and it is rapidly turning cold to-day. The prisoners here have had no meat during...

Private Wabash Monday 11 Nov. 61, Port Royal My Dear Sir— The Coatzacoalcos goes in the morning — there is nothing very special t...

Provost Marshal's Office, Waterford, Miss., December 23, 1862. Suspect this will be my last from this country. Where the army is ...

Tuscumbia, Ala., August 19, 1862. ’Tis the old, old, story, burning railroad bridges, skirmishing between our scouts and theirs, etc. T...

Were waked up at daylight & most of the men had made coffee when the Regt. was ordered on board the Gulf Steamer. Genl Banks, Genl Gran...

The Northern papers say Hooker's grand division crossed the Rappahannock, ten miles above Falmouth, several days ago. Burnside h...

A dispatch from Gen. G. W. Smith, last night, says we have repulsed the enemy from Kinston, N. C., but a dispatch this morning says a caval...

The heavy firing heard did no execution. Letters from Gen. Lee indicate no battle, unless the enemy should make an egregious blunder. He sa...

Headquarters 2d Brigade, Port Royal District , Dec. 10th, 1861. My dear Mother: I am still much busied — still find it difficult to...

Started early. Plantations more numerous and on larger scale, houses very fine but small, white folks more plenty. Negro women, no end to t...

Rained all night, and till 8 A. M. cotton for 10 mile on fire in the water from the burning boat. Landed at 7. P. M. Gun boats advanced. Tr...

Travel more rapid, stream more crooked, plantations more abundant cotton burning, negros happy, stayed at night at Mr sharpy's place. C...

This morning I learned that the consuls had carried the day, and were permitted to collect the tobacco alleged to be bought on foreign acco...

We marched out on the railroad today and destroyed seven miles of track, then returned to camp, where we had left our knapsacks. We heard t...

The Seventeenth Army Corps remained all day on the south bank of the Congaree river, near the Saluda cotton mills, while the Fifteenth Corp...

Here we go, sure enough. At precisely eleven o'clock, while we were enjoying our first dreams, we were startled by the long roll which ...

Baton Rouge . Well! Day before yesterday, I almost vowed I would not return, and last evening I reached here. Verily, consistency, thou ar...