HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,                    Forts Jackson and Saint Philip, April 29 , 1862 . SIR: I have the honor to rep...

New Orleans gone 1 – and with it the Confederacy. Are we not cut in two?   That Mississippi ruins us if lost. The Confederacy has been don...

The following graphic account, and the only one we have seen of the taking of the city of New Orleans, was transmitted by telegraph on Mond...

World’s Special. WASHINGTON, April 30. The Petersburg Express of day before yesterday has a long editorial regarding the loss at N...

FT. MONROE, April 29. A flag of truce from Norfolk to-day brought down the wife and family of Parson Brownlow, and also the wife of Con...

We are not aware that any authentic report has been published of the number of rebels killed during the siege at Forts Jackson and St. Phil...

WASHINGTON, May 24, 1862. The following interesting letter from Com. Porter to Senator Grimes of Iowa furnishes valuable information concer...

OFFICIAL REPORT OF GEN. BUTLER. HEAD QUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, FORTS JACKSON AND ST. PHILLIP, April 29, 1862. To Hon. E. M. Stanton...

General Butler’s Proclamation to the People of the City. Memphis papers of the 6 th & 7 th have been received by the Cincinnati Comme...

We are at last authoritatively informed that this large and flourishing commercial emporium of the South has fallen into the hands of the Ya...

(Special to World.) WASHINGTON, April 30. – The Petersburg Express of day before yesterday, has a long editorial regarding the loss at New O...

ARRIVAL OF UNION REFUGEES – CAPTURE OF NEW ORLEANS – DESTRUCTION OF REBEL GUNBOATS AND ARMY STORES – GREAT PANIC IN DIXIE – PICAYUNE BUTLER ...