This morning is beautiful and pleasant, much like a happy June morning in Illinois. In the evening we have brigade drill; the boys do not re...

GENERAL ORDERS No. 22.] HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,              New Orleans, May 4 , 1862 . The commanding general of the depart...

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, in and by the Constitution of the United States it is pro...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,              Camp near Harrison's Landing, Va., July 7 , 1862 . Mr. PRESIDENT: You have been fu...

HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION,                   Memphis, August 17 , 1862 . Major-General GRANT, Corinth: DEAR SIR: A letter from yo...

HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION,                   Memphis, August 7 , 1862 . Captain FITCH, Assistant Quartermaster, Memphis, Tenn.: ...

(Private and Unofficial) New Orleans , Sept. 24th, 1862. Dear Sir : Your kind letter of the 8th. inst. reached me yesterday. I show...

Our 5000 prisoners taken at the battle of Chickamauga have arrived in this city, and it is ascertained that more are on the way hither. Gen...

Jackson, Tenn., June 26, 1863. Such splendid weather — nice, fresh breezes ruffling the leaves on the trees all the day long—and plenty...

Hon. E. S. Dargan, member of Congress, writes from Mobile that Mississippi is nearly subdued, and Alabama is almost exhausted, He says our ...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, New Orleans, May 25 , 1862 . Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: SIR : In matters pertai...

Gen. Beauregard is eager to have completed the “Torpedo Ram,” building at Charleston, and wants a “great gun” for it. But the Secretary of ...

Wrote Du Pont that Foote would relieve him. I think he anticipates it and perhaps wants it to take place. He makes no suggestions, gives no...

The snow is nearly a foot deep this morning, as it continued to fall all night, and is falling still. It grows warmer, however. But ...

Camp Green Meadows. — Rained last night and drizzled all this morning. . . . I feel dourish today; inaction is taking the soul out of us. ...

Last night was bitter cold, and this morning there was ice on my wash-stand, within five feet of the fire. Is this the “sunny South” the No...

Lee does not follow up his blows on the whipped enemy, and some sage critics censure him for it. But he knows that the fatal blow has been ...

In Chester still. I climb these steep steps alone. They have all gone, all passed by. Buck went with Mr. C. Hampton to York. Mary, Mrs. Hug...

Just now, when Mr. Clay dashed up-stairs, pale as a sheet, saying, “General Lee has capitulated,” I saw it reflected in Mary Darby's fa...

Baltimore, Md., November 15,1861. Sit Excellency A. Lincoln: My Dear Sir ,—I enclose a proclamation which I have issued to the peop...