Major-General Benjamin F. Butler is exercising a great and dangerous influence at the Treasury Department. He has been employed in some case...

I had an interview with the President concerning Semmes, as understood yesterday. Showed him the papers, and, after some conversation, he pr...

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....

At six o'clock this morning the steamer arrived at the wharf under the walls of Fortress Monroe, which presented a very different appea...

New Orleans , September 9th, 1862. Dear Sir : The newspapers which I send, will give you most of the local news. One Regiment of th...

It was warm and sultry in the middle of the day. We remained in our works till about 5 o'clock p. m. when on being relieved by General ...