The Senate has passed a new Conscription Act, putting all residents between the ages of eighteen and fifty-live in the military service for...

To His Excellency John A. Andrew . Dear Sir : — Last week a deputation from my Philadelphia committee visited Washington to confer with ...

Camp Reynolds , March 9, 1863. Dear Uncle : — Yours of last Sunday came to hand yesterday. Wife and boys still here — very happy. They ...

Camp Reynolds, Virginia , March 4, 1863. Dear Uncle : — Getting on finely. The boys busy and very happy. Webb, I fancy, is a good deal ...

We have intelligence to-day, derived from a New York paper of the 18th inst., that the “insurrection” in New York had subsided, under the m...

We have accounts of mobs, riots, and disturbances in New York and other places in consequence of the Conscription Act. Our information is v...

The enemy bombarded Fort McAlister again yesterday, several gun-boats opening fire on it. It lasted all day; during winch one of the iron-c...

We like our new quarters — and the three Samaritan widows, without children. They lend us many articles indispensable for our comfort. It i...

On the 18th inst. the enemy's battery on the opposite side of the Mississippi River opened on Vicksburg. The damage was not great; but ...

Head-quarters, Department of the East, New York City, August 17, 1863. To the Citizens of New York: The draft of men in this city t...

Executive Department, Albany, August 15,1863. To Major-general John A. Dix, U.S.A., Commanding Department of the East: Sir , — I ...

Head-quarters, Department of the East, New York City, August 8,1863. His Excellency Horatio Seymour, Governor of the State of New York:...

Camp At Aldie, Va ., June 23, 1863. Yesterday General Pleasanton drove the enemy's cavalry across what is called the Loudoun Valley...

April 18, 1863. To-day is fine and beautiful, and if we only have a continuance of such weather, we shall soon be on the move. I suppos...

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI. IN THE FIELD, ATLANTA, Aug. 12, 1864. SCHUYLER COLFAX, Esq., South Bend, Ind. ...

HARRISONBURG, Va., April 29. Three thousand rebels, under Edward Johnson, formerly of the Federal army, are posted a few miles from Sta...

CAMP BEFORE VICKSBURG, April 23, 1863. Dear Brother: I have noticed in the Conscript Act the clauses which empowered the President ...

CAMP BEFORE VICKSBURG, April 3, '63. My Dear Brother: I received your long letter from Mansfield, for which I am much obliged. ...

MANSFIELD, OHIO, March 20, 1863. Dear Brother: I am at length at home with sufficient leisure to think, but still somewhat jaded ...

CAMP BEFORE VlCKSBURG, March 14, '63. Dear Brother: * * * * * * * * * * The Conscript Bill is all even I could ask, it is t...