Bright, but several inches of snow fell last night. The President wrote a long letter to the Secretary yesterday concerning the assignment...

Camp near Orange Court House, Va., January 16, 1864. The army is filling up with conscripts, absentees and others, and if we get also the ...

Dark and dismal. The Governor continues his exemptions, now amounting to thousands. S. Basset French (State agent to buy and sell supplies...

Clear, hot, and dry; my snap beans, corn, etc. burning up. The papers this morning fail to confirm the capture of as many prisoners, near ...

Rained all night. Cloudy to-day; wind southwest. The Secretary of War must feel his subordination to Gen. Bragg. Gen. Fitz Lee recommended...

It rained all night, the wind blowing a gale from the east. This morning the wind was from the west, blowing moderately; and although cloudy...

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,                         In the Field, Summerville, Ga., October 20 , 1864 . Major-General ...

A refugee from Portsmouth reports the arrival of 6000 Federal troops at Newport News, and that Richmond is to be menaced again. Brig.-G...

Gen. Lee telegraphed last night that our cavalry had routed the enemy's horse on Monday, capturing some 200, etc. etc. The Legislat...

Batteries Wagner and Gregg and Fort Sumter have been evacuated! But this is not yet the capture of Charleston. Gen. Beauregard telegraphed ...

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 the following dispatch from Gen. Beauregard, which is really refreshing in this season of disasters: Charleston , July 22d, 186...

A dispatch from Montgomery, Ala., states that the enemy have penetrated as far as Enterprise, Miss., where we had a small body of troops, c...

We have nothing additional from Gen. Wise's expedition against Williamsburg; but it was deprecated by our people here, whose families a...

On Saturday, the enemy's lower Mississippi fleet attacked our batteries at Port Hudson. The result reported is that only one of their g...

No stirring news yet. The enemy's fleet is at Port Royal, S. C. Everywhere we are menaced with overwhelming odds. Upon God, and our own...

We have dispatches from Charleston, to-day, which reconcile us to the loss of the cargo captured by the blockading squadron early in the we...

Felt most sick. Had a slight chill — I suppose — afterwards feverish. Moved camp late in the afternoon on account of a report by an old man...

Camp Jones, Flat Top Mountain , June 21, 1862. Dear Uncle : — We have been here and hereabouts almost a month. Our line of defense exte...

It appears from the Northern press that the enemy did make three attempts last week to cross the Rappahannock; but as they advanced toward ...