Bright and pleasant. Stayed with my next door neighbors at their request last night—all females. It was quiet; and so far the United State...

Bright and cool. Gen. Weitzel and his corps having been ordered away, Major Gen. Ord has succeeded to the command at Richmond, and his cor...

GENERAL ORDERS No. 7.} HDQRS. DISTRICT OF VICKSBURG,           Vicksburg, Miss., May 18, 1864. The attention of the officers of this comma...

Bright and beautiful. Indian summer apparently. All quiet below—but it is anticipated by some that a battle will occur to-day, or in a day...

Cloudy and melting—snow vanishing rapidly. The thousand and one rumors of great achievements of Gen. Longstreet on the north side of the riv...

October 20. I never knew till today that "John Brown," the only son of Uncle York, was the first negro soldier who fell in this ...

BEAUFORT, S. C. November 24. Today our companies E and K have proved themselves worthy, in a skirmish over the river, of all the praises t...

November 28. My decision to resign my commission was a little depressing, and may have had some influence in bringing on the attack of ver...

No. 1. Report of Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, U. S. Army,  commanding Department of the Cumberland. COLONEL: 1 On the 12th of November ...