Rienzi.   The 3rd Section, Lieutenant Hood, went out in front and the first fell back to its old grounds. Foraging party brought in two load...

We had a great time to-day, having sent out this morning some six thousand troops, with about one hundred wagons, on a foraging expedition. ...

Haines Bluff, Miss. Once more on land, and glad are we of the change. We arrived at the mouth of the Yazoo at ten o'clock yesterday morn...

I wrote to Locke's Mills pupils. Messenger arrived from Alexandrian woods at 7 a. m., 1,000 men coming and 500 cattle. SOURCE: Lewis C...

I introduce the following letter to a friend, as sufficiently explicit as to the occurrences since the last date: CHAIN BRIDGE, VA., Sept....

The great day of battle commenced at daylight and raged heavily all along the line until 3 o'clock. Yanks drove back four miles. Our Boy...

OUR FIRST MARCH. This morning, at four o'clock, we thought the Old Nick was to pay, but soon found it was only the long roll. It would...

Sunday morning the regiment was ordered out on grand guard. Went up on hill some two miles from camp—heavy firing heard in the distance—McAr...

Rained in torrents last night; cold this morning and cloudy. All quiet below. But there was an alarm, night before last, growing out of a ...

Evening. About six, the Burnside came down the river with horses, hogs, chickens and prisoners. They took Col. Bryant, just as he returned...

Franklin County, Pa.,           June 28, 1863. We are in Yankeedom this time, for certain, and a beautiful and magnificent country it is t...

Near Bunker Hill, Jefferson County, Va . ,           July 17, 1863. You will see by this letter that we have gotten back into “Old Virgini...

HEADQUARTERS, Knoxville, November 26 , 1861 . Hon. J.P. BENJAMIN,           Secretary of War: SIR: I have the honor to report that I arri...

Cool and cloudy; symptoms of the equinoctial gale. We have intelligence of another brilliant feat of Gen. Wade Hampton. Day before yesterd...

DUNN'S HILL, September 17 , 1864 . At daylight yesterday the enemy's skirmish line west of the Jerusalem plank road was driven ba...

Several detachments were sent out over the country after beef cattle. Some sixty beeves were brought in during the day. The battalion move...

SEMINARY, June 28, 1860. . . . Last week I dismissed summarily two cadets of good families and large connexions. One has appealed to the B...

Clear and warm. The local troops did not march until this morning, and no one supposes Richmond is seriously menaced by Grant. I believe t...

VICKSBURG, MISS., July 11, 1863. Maj. Gen. N. P. BANKS, Comdg. Department of the Gulf: GENERAL: It is with pleasure I congratulate you up...

[Washington, July 23, 1863] I have had one interview with the Secy of War & two with the President. Every one in the Gove't & ...