Bright and frosty. Confused accounts of the raid in the morning papers. During the day it was reported that Col. Johnson's forces had ...

Bright and frosty in the morning; warm and cloudy in the afternoon. The enemy have disappeared. On the 17th inst., Gen. Lee wrote the Secr...

The breach seems to widen between the President and Congress, especially the Senate. A majority of the Committee on Military Affairs have r...

On Saturday, resolutions were unanimously adopted by the Senate complimenting Gen. Lee. This is his opportunity, if he be ambitious,—and wh...

No war news to-day. But a letter, an impassioned one, from Gov. Vance, complains of outrages perpetrated by detached bodies of Confederate ...

The President's message was sent to Congress to-day. I was not present, but my son Custis, who heard it read, says the President dwells...

It is clear and cold again. Custis came home last evening, after a week's sojourn at Chaffim’s Bluff, where, however, there were tents....

It is clear and cold. The boat in which my son and the battalion of clerks went down the river yesterday, sunk, from being overloaded, just...

Custis arrived and entered upon the discharge of his duties. SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones,  A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Con...