October 21. Yesterday some contrabands from the "main" reported that they overheard a rebel Colonel say that the Chaplain they h...

March 24. Tonight the Paul Jones has returned from Palatka, bringing a single contraband, and the intelligence that all the slaves have be...

March 27, 1863. This afternoon our eyes were gladdened by the sight of the Boston and Convoy steaming up the river, but when, instead of a...

March 17. We are fairly at work at our legitimate business. The John Adams brought down, last evening, thirty contrabands, ten horses, and...

Speech of Hon. Martin F. Conway, of Kansas, delivered in the House of Representatives, Thursday, December 12, 1861. Revised by the Author. ...

WAR DEPARTMENT, October 14 , 1861 . Brig. Gen. THOMAS W. SHERMAN,           Commanding Expedition to the Southern Coast: SIR: In conducti...

[June 19, 1863.] Col Whiting at Warrenton writes that a contraband tells him he heard his Master, that Genl Johnston is on an Island in Hi...

Near Vicksburg, June 19th 1863 Gen. Ord: The island referred to by Contraband must be where Jeff and Joe Davis' plantations are. Of cou...

[Big Black, June 22, 1863.] A pretty smart Contraband Just comes into our lines he left Mobile on Tuesday the 9th inst passed through Jack...

Near Vicksburg Miss. June 11th 1863.           Hon. A. Lincoln President of the United States Sir: Enclosed herewith I send report of Chapla...

[W]e move to our new and fresh càmping ground, near battery C, Captain Hackney will remember the day we moved, for if we remember correctly ...

THE TARBORO MARCH. On the morning of Oct. 30, Major Pickett, with six companies (the other four being on picket up the Trent road), left N...