Yesterday a sentry fired on a man who was attempting to kill a snake near the dead line, but missed him, the shot taking effect on four othe...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,           Saint Louis, March 10 , 1862 — 7 p.m. Major-general MCCLELLAN, Washington: Reserves i...

Clear, and warm as summer. No fires. It is reported that Gen. Hood is still marching North, and is near Nashville. The following telegra...

April 17. Last night our Colonel forgot the importance of his present position and visited the wreck of the George Washington. He saw how ...

April 21. I have today conversed with the extraordinary colored man, Peter Burns, who brought off one hundred and thirty-two persons with ...

May 27. We are being greatly washed in the rainy season. Fortunately our tents are all raised eighteen inches from the ground and pitched ...

CAMP SAXTON, BEAUFORT, S. C., April 2, 1863. Evening. Such is the management here that my notes no longer date from satisfactory advance p...

April 12. Should one inquire for my health tonight, I might adopt the reply of a soldier yesterday: "Not superior, thank God." A...

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...

STEAMER Convoy, Mouth of St. John's, March 29, 1863. This is one of the sad days of my life. The evacuation of Jacksonville is the bur...

February 25, 1863. This afternoon our regiment was reviewed by Gen. Saxton in the presence of Gen. Hunter. The staff and body guards of th...

Clear and warm. Bought fifty cabbage-plants and set them out before breakfast Gen. Early met Gen. Hunter at Snicker's Gap, and whipped...

Clear and dry; pleasant temperature. I learn that Petersburg has not been much injured by the enemy's batteries, and that Gen. Lee has...

Hot and dry. Twelve hundred Federal prisoners passed our door to-day, taken at Petersburg—about half the number captured there during the ...

NEWPORT NEWS. I am now on the sacred soil of old Virginia, and my first care will be to seek an introduction to some of the F. F. V's....

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH,      Hilton Head, S.C., April 23 , 1863.  JEFFERSON DAVIS, Richmond, Va. : The United States flag must...

LIBERTY HALL, GA., June 12, 1863. Hon. Jefferson Davis, Richmond, Va. Dear Sir: I have just seen what purports to be a letter addressed to y...

Navy Department             June 11 1862  My Dear Flag Officer  I have your notes, and today the box came, and the distribution shall be mad...

U.S.S. Pawnee           Stono River June 30th. 1862  Sir,  I had written you a letter on the 28th in relation to the most unfortunate and at...

Wabash, Off Charleston  10 July, 62  My Dear Sir We hear from the Capt & Crew of the Emilie, late Seabrook, that the Nashville threw ove...