With what extraordinary care we prepared for our ride yesterday! One would have thought that some great event was about to take place. But ...

It required very little persuasion to induce those gentlemen to stay to supper, the other evening, and it was quite late before they took t...

We six madcaps got in the carriage and buggy, and rode off in search of news. We took a quantity of old linen rags along, and during the wh...

I heard a while ago, the doctor of the Ram, who brought back the buggy, say the Arkansas's crew were about leaving; so remembering poor...

About half-past nine, as we got up from the breakfast table, a guerrilla told us the ram Arkansas was lying a few miles below, on her way t...

Received a letter from Commodore W. D. Porter stating his arrival in New York after many signal exploits, — capturing the ironclad steamer ...

Mr. ––– sick, but better to-day. This is the anniversary of the glorious battle of Manassas. Since that time we have had many reverses, but...

Memo. Soon after hostilities commenced, in the spring or summer of 1861, a letter from William D. Porter to his son was published. The son ...

CAIRO, April 23. Special to Chicago Times. The steamer Desoto arrived to-day from the flotilla off Ft. Pillow, having on board the first s...

CAIRO, April 23. – A gentleman has just arrived from Memphis with the Memphis Appeal of the 17th inst., from which I am allowed to extract t...