Brig. General Prentiss, and Colonels Oglesby and Paine, visit the camp of the Seventh, addressing the men upon the subject of re-enlisting....

CAIRO, ILL., February 7 , 1862 . Brig. Gen. U.S. GRANT, Comdg. U.S. Forces on Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers: By direction of Maj...

Tuscumbia, Ala., August 19, 1862. ’Tis the old, old, story, burning railroad bridges, skirmishing between our scouts and theirs, etc. T...

Headquarters 1st Brigade Cavalry Division, Camp near Boonville, Miss., June 6, 1862. I am leading an inglorious life now, nothing to ...

Corinth and Hamburg Road, Miss., May 11, 1862. You remember that in my last I spoke of a reconnoisance our people made on the 8th inst....

Headquarters 7th Illinois Cavalry Camp, on Hamburg and Corinth Road, May 3, 1862. I arrived here yesterday in safety. Stayed in Peo...

Bird's Point , January 10, 1862. Since daylight yesterday morning we have been all ready with five days' rations and expecting ...

January 2, 1862. We've waited patiently until after New Year for the box of provisions, and nary box yet. Have given it up for a go...

A correspondent of the Burlington Hawk-eye , writing from Pittsburg, says, he “has it from reliable authority” that the recent skirmish of...

We are in receipt of a letter some thirteen pages in length from a “Camp near Corinth” correspondent, giving us the details of the brilliant...

CAMP ON HAMBURG AND CORINTH ROAD, Friday, May 9, 1862. FRIEND SANDERS. – Of yesterday’s skirmish, and loss, I wrote you last night an...

. . . for his home in Cleona township.   He was wounded in the thigh by a shell, as we stated yesterday.   He gave us some very interesting...

PITTSBURG, May 3 – 9 P. M. Hon. E. M. Stanton:– Gen. Paine’s division made a reconnoissance to Farmington to-day; found about 4,500 of ...

CAIRO, April 8, 8 p.m. – I have been able to gather a few more particulars from Island No. 10.   Four hundred and seventy-eight prisoners,...

CHICAGO, March 13. – Special dispatches to the Post from Cairo 12th, say matters are little changed. A lieutenant of the 60th Ohio arr...

The following facts and correspondence have just come into my possession, and I hasten to send them to you.   They show the exasperated natu...

CAIRO, Feb. 18. – Gov. Yates, Lieut. Governor Wood, auditor Dubois and many prominent citizens from all parts of Illinois are here to look a...

CAIRO, April 8. Dispatches from New Madrid are received.   The gunboats Carondelet and Pittsburg shelled and silenced the batteries on the ...

OTHER GUNBOATS RUN THE REBEL BLOCKADE. Gen. Pope’s Division Cross the River. SPEEDY TERMINATION OF THE SIEGE. _____ Special to the Chicag...

BIRD’S POINT, Mo., March 2, 1862. FRIEND SANDERS. – The papers reach us very irregularly here.   Those writing, or mailing for the 2d caval...