Fayetteville, N. C., March 12, 1865. We are camped a couple of miles from town. Marched about 13 miles to-day. Had to put down pontoons at...

RALEigh , Dec. 17, ‘60. I can not find time to write you as often as I ought to. To-day the Senate voted 27 to 15 to suspend the ru...

Moved our camp two miles up the road toward Richmond. It is a very bad camp—low ground and muddy. But there is a factory here, and plenty o...

June 17, 1864. After erecting some good works at Roswell (the best we have yet built), capable of holding at least 25,000 men, we were ...

July 14, 1864. Another hot day. We marched down to the river at Roswell and crossed it, and have gone into camp on the bank a mile abov...

At five o'clock this morning, having been awakened an hour earlier by a wonderful chorus of riotous mocking-birds, my old negro attenda...

Augusta is a city of 20,000 inhabitants; but its streets being extremely wide, and its houses low, it covers a vast space. No place that I ...

FORT MONROE, Feb. 27. A flag of truce to-day took over fifty people to Craney Island. We have the following Southern news: A meeting of t...