Clear and pleasant. Cannon heard down the river. Mr. E. A. Pollard, taken by the Federals in an attempt to run the blockade last spring, h...

May 27. We are being greatly washed in the rainy season. Fortunately our tents are all raised eighteen inches from the ground and pitched ...

Am harassed by the pressure on the enlistment question. A desire to enter the Navy to avoid the draft is extensive, and the local authoritie...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA,                        August 23 , 1864 . Hon. SECRETARY OF WAR, Richmond: SIR: The subjec...

New York, July 7th, 1864. My Dear Sir: I venture to inclose you a letter and telegraphic dispatch that I received yesterday from our i...

HDQRS. GEORGIA RESERVES AND MIL. DIST. OF GEORGIA,       Macon, Ga., January 8 , 1865 . Hon. JAMES A. SEDDON, Secretary of War, Richm...

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

No news from any of the armies this morning. But Gen. Whiting writes that he is deficient in ordnance to protect our steamers and to defend...

A letter from Gen. J. E. Johnston, Atlanta —   whither he had repaired to attend a Court of Inquiry relating to Pemberton's operations,...

I shall here briefly recapitulate what has occurred since the last mention of political events. In the first place the South has been d...

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

PHILADELPHIA, June 30 , 1863 .      (Received 11 . 05 a.m.) His Excellency ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States: SIR...

Gen. Van Dorn, it is reported, has captured or destroyed another gun-boat in the West. Night before last another riot was looked for in...

Nothing definite has transpired at Charleston, or if so, we have not received information of it yet. From the West, we have accounts...

Gen. D. H. Hill writes from North Carolina that the business of conscription is miserably mismanaged in that State. The whole business, it ...

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 ...

Rained almost all day, clearing up the after part of the day. Received Commercial of 28th. It looks as if they were getting ready to draft....

Judge Meredith's opinion, that foreigners, Marylanders, and others, who have served in the army, have become domiciled, and are liable ...

Received letters from Mother, June 3 and July 17, and from Platt, July 22. Platt says Governor Tod will not appoint men now in the field be...

Congress has not yet restricted the class of exempts, and the work of conscription drags heavily along. All under forty-five must be called...