Raining and cold. This morning there was another arrival of our prisoners on parol, and not yet exchanged. Many thousands have arrived this ...

About sundown the shelling ceased, and nearly all of us returned to camp to endeavor to sleep, as we had been up all the night preceding unl...

After a very cold night spent in sleeplessness, I arose, determined to have something better to eat than our daily ration of coarse meal and...

Dark and raining. Cannon heard down the river. To-day our Congress assembles. Senator Johnson, of Missouri (who relinquished six years in ...

Foggy; then bright; then very warm. Gen. Lee is at Chaffin's Bluff. A dispatch from him this morning states that the enemy's infan...

Clear and warm, but the atmosphere is charged with the smoke and dust of contending armies. The sun shines but dimly. Custis was with us l...

Showers and sunshine. Grant has crossed the Pamunky, and Lee is at the Yellow Tavern-not more than  six miles  from the city. The hostile ...

Fair and cool; hot at noon. It is rumored that Mr. Memminger will resign. If he does, it will cause much rejoicing. Mr. Foote censured him...

Another bright and beautiful day; and vegetation is springing with great rapidity. But nearly all my potatoes, corn, egg-plants, and tomatoe...

March 5, 1865. The 17th and all our corps, except our division, have crossed the river. We follow in the morning. The enemy did not attemp...

It cleared away yesterday evening, and this morning, after the dispersion of a fog, the sun shone out in great glory, and the day was bright...

The offices are closed, to-day, in honor of Washington's birth-day. But it is a fast day; meal selling for $40 per bushel. Money will no...

 Bright and pleasant. A letter from Gen. Maury indicates now that Mobile is surely to be attacked. He says they may force a passage at Gra...

AN EXCURSION.  Companies C and B, together with Capt. Schenck's New York battery company as infantry, returned yesterday afternoon fro...

Gen. Lee recommends the formation of several more brigades of cavalry, mostly from regiments and companies in South Carolina, and to this ...

Gen. Longstreet reports some small captures of the enemy's detached foraging parties. The prisoners here have now been six days with...

There is nothing new to-day. The weather is pleasant for the season, the snow being all gone. Custis has succeeded in getting ten pupils...

A bright windy day, and not cold. The President has a reception to-day, and the City Councils have voted the hospitalities of the city to B...

After a fine rain all night, it cleared away beautifully this morning, cool, but not unseasonable. There is no news of importance. The Gove...

No news of battles yet. But we have a rumor of the burning of the fine government steamer R. E. Lee, chased by the blockaders. That makes t...