John Van has been over again and says his regiment is going into winter quarters in the city outskirts. I hear the 128th has sailed for Fort...

We are under marching orders again—ready to move at a minute's notice. The Ninth Army Corps is detached from the Army of the Potomac and...

We are now on the “heaving sea and the bounding wave.” We were aroused yesterday morning at four o'clock, ordered to prepare breakfast a...

Everything quiet—no signs of the enemy and I do not think they will make an attempt against Yorktown unless with a much larger force than th...

Clear and cold. Our commissioners are back again! It is said Lincoln and Seward met them at Fortress Monroe, and they proceeded no further. ...

BATTLE OF BETHEL CHURCH, MONDAY, JUNE 10TH, 1861. The above-named place is a neat little country church situated some fifteen miles from Y...

The enemy having retired to Fortress Monroe, we left Bethel Church last evening and arrived at Yorktown at 1 o'clock in the night. Not...

To the Governor of the State of Virginia: DEAR SIR, SHERWOOD FOREST, January 31, 1861. I received your communication notifying me of...

BROWN'S HOTEL, January 28, 1861. MY DEAR SIR: I leave the city to-morrow morning for the brief interval that elapses between this and ...

WASHINGTON, January 28, 1861. MY DEAR SIR: I have received your note of this evening, and am happy to learn that you were pleased at heari...

 The President sends notice that there will be no Cabinet-meeting to-day. He went to Fortress Monroe on Sunday in a light river boat, and re...

Cumberland, Nov. 29, 1859. A. P. Shutt,           Harper's Ferry. Did you take the gentlemen to Charlestown, to-day? Did they see the pr...

Baltimore, Nov. 29, 1859-6.19 P. M. W.  P. Smith,           Cumberland: Authorities are considering whether they will send to Harper's...

Stanton informed me this P.M. that Halleck had gone from Richmond to Fortress Monroe and he wished certain persons, whom he named, should be...

[W]e proceeded up the Savannah River, and, on reaching the city, were provided with carriages to examine it and the environs. Savannah has s...

We had calm and delightful weather. Were amused as persons on shipboard usually are. Off the entrance to Cape Fear we had some fishing. Saw ...

Clear and hot. All quiet at Petersburg. President Lincoln was at Fortress Monroe on Sunday last, after the explosion and its failure. Th...

MONTGOMERY, July 19, 1864.           (Via Columbus.) Col. J. B. SALE: The enemy still hold West Point railroad. Forces are moving forward ...

WE LEAVE VIRGINIA. NEWBERN. On the 5th of this month the 23d and 25th Massachusetts embarked on the steamer Winona, from Bermuda Hundred b...

WE LEAVE YORKTOWN. On the afternoon of the 4th we went aboard the boats and dropped anchor at Fortress Monroe at dusk. The next morning we...