[Special Dispatch to the Charleston Courier.] BALTIMORE, December 27, 10.30 P. M.—There was an immense excitement produced here today by t...

[Special Dispatch to the Charleston Courier.] PHILADELPHIA, December 27.—The news of the abandonment of Fort Moultrie and the destruction ...

I have been kept for a week, and am still, in a state of great anxiety about the dangerous political excitements at home. The President has ...

December 15[?], 1860. . . . I started to write a letter to Minnie but got drawn into this political strain that is not for her but you. Re...

ALEXANDRIA, Dec. 18, 1860. . . . I cannot remain here much beyond January 23, the time set for the state convention to dissolve the connec...

SEMINARY, Christmas, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: They [the cartridges] are a most appropriate present, and I hope they may all be used for holiday...

Intelligence of the evacuation of Petersburg and the capture of Richmond was received this A.M., and the city has been in an uproar through ...

WEST POINT, December 1, 1860. MY DEAR SISTER:  You must pardon me, but I must introduce the general and all-absorbing topic of conversati...

WEST POINT, December 21, 1860 DEAR SISTER:  We are on general review in mineralogy and geology preparatory to our last January examinatio...

Confidential  Wabash, 25. May, 62  Port Royal S.C.  My Dear Mr Fox, I arrived last evening from a weeks inspection on the Coast from Georget...

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Charleston, S.C., February 27, 1861. The PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES,  &c., Montgomery, Ala : DEAR SIR...