Rained last night; clear and cool this morning. The report of another battle, since Sunday, in North Carolina, is not confirmed. The ...

Raining; rained all night. My health improving, but prudence requires me to still keep within the house. The reports of terrific fighting ...

Rained last night; but this is as lovely a morning as ever dawned on earth. A gentle southern breeze, a cloudless sky, and a glorious mornin...

Raining; warm. The Northern papers announce the capture of Wilmington. No doubt the city has fallen, although the sapient dignitaries of thi...

Rained all night; spitting snow this morning. Although Gen. Bragg announces that the enemy's fleet has disappeared off Wilmington, still...

A clear night and frosty morning. We have no news except that gleaned from Northern papers. Gen. Hood is unable to cross the Tennessee Riv...

Bright and beautiful morning. All quiet below. Mr. McRae has been permitted by Gen. Butler to return again to the city to await his exchan...

Bright and beautiful. The government, after giving the news from Georgia, position of Hood, to the press, suppressed it. It is well, perha...

Raining moderately, and cool. Gen. Bragg has taken the Bureau of Conscription in hand, since Col. August, "acting superintendent,...

Slight showers, and warm. Gen. J. H. Morgan was betrayed by a woman, a Mrs. Williamson, who was entertaining him. Custis made an estimat...

Clear; but rained copiously last night. A letter from Gen. Lee indicates that the “Bureau of Conscription” fails to replenish the army. ...

Bright and pleasant. Gen. Hood telegraphs Gen Bragg that the enemy has shifted his line somewhat, drawing back his left and extending his ...

Sunshine and showers. The battle yesterday decided nothing, that I am aware of. We captured 1000 prisoners, stormed some of their intren...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA,                        September 2 , 1864 . His Excellency JEFFERSON DAVIS, President of the...

Gen. J. E. Johnston dispatches from the West that the meat is so indifferent, the soldiers must have an additional quantity of rice. ...

The reports from Western North Carolina indicate that much bad feeling prevails there still; and it is really something more than a militar...

Northern papers received yesterday evening contain a letter from Mr. Lincoln to the Illinois Convention of Republicans, in which I am told ...

There is a rumor that Gen. Lee (who is still here) is to take the most of his army out of Virginia, to recapture the Southern territory los...

Governor Vance writes that large bodies of deserters in the western counties of North Carolina are organized, with arms, and threaten to ra...

We have a dispatch from Mississippi, stating that on Thursday last Grant demanded the surrender of Vicksburg in three days. He was answered...