Started again this morning, and passed over the Chancellorsville battlefield. Marched twelve miles to-day. We passed a brigade of negro troo...

Camp near Orange Court House, Va . , April 19, 1864. We are still in camp, but yesterday we received an order to send back all surplus bag...

HEADQUARTERS RIFLE BRIGADE,           Knoxville, Tenn., December 9, 1861. Maj. Gen. G. B. CRITTENDEN, Knoxville: SIR: I have the honor he...

A bright and beautiful day; southern breezes. No reliable war news; but there are rumors that our victory at Shreveport was a great one. N...

Another truly fine spring day. The ominous silence on the Rapidan and Rappabannock continues still. The two armies seem to be measuring ea...

Cleared away in the night—frost. To-day it clouded up again! We have an account from the West, to the effect that Forrest  stormed  Fort P...

A clear morning, but a cold, cloudy day. The following dispatch from Gen. Forrest shows that the bloody work has commenced in earnest: DEM...

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF WEST TENNESSEE, Fort Donelson, February 25 , 1862 . Brig. Gen. G. W. CULLUM, Cairo, Ill.: I wrote you tha...

At the Cabinet-meeting each of the members read his opinion. There had, I think, been some concert between Seward and Stanton and probably ...

At the Cabinet-meeting the President requested each member to give him an opinion as to what course the Government should pursue in relatio...

I have written a letter to the President in relation to the Fort Pillow massacre, but it is not satisfactory to me, nor can I make it so wi...

The whole civilized world will be startled and horrified by this slaughter of probably not less than five or six hundred persons. The excus...

WASHINGTON, June 5 , 1862 . Major-General HALLECK, Corinth: I have a dispatch from Colonel Ellet, commander of the ram fleet at Fort...

Rained every day so far this month. A portion of the camp is a mud hole, and the men are obliged to lay down in it. Fort Pillow prisoners t...

Near Corinth, Miss., May 19 ,1862. Our regiment now is acting as a kind of rear guard for Pope's division. The enemy's cavalry ...

On Steamer Henry Clay, off New Madrid, Mo., April 16, 1862. I finished my last in a great hurry, helped strike and load our tents and...

Camp New Madrid, Mo., April 12, 1862. I have the extreme happiness to inform you that there is at last a hope of my dating the next let...

Quite unwell this morning, with a severe attack of flux Keep my bed all day, & at night feel no better. Lt Loughridge was in town but c...

The regiment was paid off. During our stay in Columbus I visited the fort where the rebel General Forrest massacred the negro garrison a ye...

On looking out of my cabin window this morning I found the steamer fast along-side a small wharf, above which rose, to the height of 150 fe...