Why didn’t Denmark die in the last ditch? Plucky as she has been she happens to be made of flesh and blood, and this sort of dying is not a...

Vienna , May 12, 1863. My Dearest Mother : Since Easter brought an end to the Lenten entertainments which succeeded the carnival, ther...

Among my London acquaintances was Mr. Edward Ellis, a member of Parliament himself, and, I think, with one or two sons also in that body. H...

Brighton , December 14, 1865. Here we are at the Newport of England, in the height of the season, in comfortable apartments fronting on...

The reveille of the Zouaves, note for note the same as that which, in the Crimea, so often woke up poor fellows who slept the long sleep er...

To-day the papers contain a proclamation by the President of the Confederate States of America, declaring a state of war between the Confed...

camp Near Seneca , November 16, 1861. The difference between our actions in this war seems to be, that we don't half do our Ball...