Rained last night & thought myself quite fortunate in having procured enough pieces of Reb tents to make a tent large enough to hold Te...

At last venit summa dies et ineluctabile tempus. I had seen as much as might be of the best phase of the great institution — less than I co...

A thunder-storm, which lasted all the morning and afternoon till three o'clock. When it cleared I drove, in company with Mr. Burnside a...

My chattel Joe, “ adscriptus mihi domino ” awoke me to a bath of Mississippi water with huge lumps of ice in it, to which he recommended a...

I went with Mr. Mure to visit the jail. We met the sheriff, according to appointment, at the police court. Something like a sheriff — a gre...

General H é bert is a good-looking creole.* He was a West-Pointer, and served in the old army, but afterwards became a wealthy sugar-plante...