Rained hard in the night; clear and pleasant in the morning. A letter from John T. Bourne, St. Georges, Bermuda, says he has some 1800 bar...

Cold and cloudy; surface of the ground frozen. Cannon heard below. More of Gen. Early's corps arriving. The papers contradict the report...

Hot and dry. The booming of cannon heard yesterday evening was from one of our batteries below Drewry's Bluff. The enemy answered from...

ON THE SICK LIST. Since the affair over on the railroad, I have been on the sick list and have suffered severely with chills and fever and...

Ordered to Drewry's Bluff. We left Richmond at 8 P.M. and got there at 2 A.M. We are camping on the old oat patch, near our former camp....

We received marching orders this morning. The long roll beat at one in the night. We marched four miles on to Richmond, where we met some w...

Arrived at Drewry's Bluff this morning. Here we met our brigade, commanded by General Daniels. The brigade has five regiments, all Nor...

Gen. Longstreet writes that it will be well to winter in East Tennessee (Rogersville), unless there should be a pressing necessity for him ...

The clerks were marched out into the muddy street this morning in a cold rain, and stood there for hours, while the officers were making up...

The papers contain the following order from Gen. Lee: “headquarters Army Northern Virginia, “May 7th, 1803. “general Orders No. 5...

The resignation of Gen. Gustavus W. Smith has been accepted by the President. It was well done — the acceptance, I mean. Who will Gen. Wind...

I embarked at 10 A.M. on board a small steamer to visit Drewry's Bluff on the James River, the scene of the repulse of the ironclads Mo...

A Marylander, a lieutenant employed by Gen. Winder to guard the prisoners (the generals and other high Yankee officers), came to me to-day,...