MEMPHIS, November 11 , 1861. Major-General POLK: Please send me all the guns and accouterments that can be spared to Chattanooga. I will mo...

KNOXVILLE, TENN., November 17, 1861. Lieutenant-Colonel MACKALL, Bowling Green, Ky.: SIR: Having blockaded the roads over the mountains n...

A plan of invasion. Gen. Longstreet telegraphs that he has no corn, and cannot stay where he is, unless supplied by the Quartermaster-Genera...

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,                         In the Field, Kingston, Ga., November 6 , 1864 . Lieut. Gen. U.S. ...

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,                   In the Field, Savannah, Ga., January 21 , 1865 . Maj. Gen. GEORGE ...

There was a rumor that Chattanooga had been evacuated; but it turns out that the enemy are fortifying it, and mean to keep it, while operat...

Rosecrans's removal is all right. Poor fellow, his health broke down, and he came near swamping us at Chattanooga. The military situati...

No news from any of the armies, except that Longstreet has reached Bristol, Va. Yesterday, in Congress, Mr. Foote denounced the Preside...

I opened a letter from you this morning and lo, it was dated 30th August. Probably it had strayed to Rosecrans at Chattanooga and back here...

Some skirmishing between Chattanooga and Knoxville. From prisoners we learn that the enemy at both those places are on half rations, and th...

Thanksgiving Day. Reports of fighting at Knoxville, Chattanooga, and with Lee. If the result is generally favorable, we shall see daylight ...

The President returned Saturday evening, looking pretty well. Yesterday, Sunday, he was under the necestity of reading a dispatch from Gen....

The President has not yet returned, but was inspecting the defenses of Charleston. The Legislature has adjourned without fixing a maximum o...

Gen. Lee writes (a few days since), from Brandy Station, that Meade seems determined to advance again; that troops are going up the Potomac...

Letters came to-day from the President (or rather copies in his own handwriting), relieving Lieut.-Gen. Hardee, in Mississippi, and assigni...

To-day we have a cold northwest storm of wind and rain, and we have our first fire in the parlor. The elections in Ohio and Pennsylvania...

Gallipolis , September 24, [1863]. Dear Uncle : — Lucy arrived here safely last night. We shall go up the Kanawha tomorrow. I hope ...

P. M. — “Rosecrans [at Chickamauga] has been badly beaten”! Such is the shock the dispatch gives us this evening. After months of success ...

Camp White , August 25, 1863. Dear Uncle :— . . . I keep my cavalry moving as much as possible. The infantry has little to do. The pris...

The President, accompanied by two of his aids, set off quietly day before yesterday for the Southwest — to Bragg's army, no doubt, wher...