We are ordered to Fort Brown, two miles from the city, where we go into a more permanent camp. During our first days at Savannah, the Sevent...

The Cabinet-meeting was full. Stanton submitted an application from Judge Campbell, asking to be released from imprisonment in Pulaski. Sewa...

April-like day, but no rain; clouds, and sunshine, and warm. About 2 P.M. the Secretary received a dispatch stating that the enemy had app...

U.S.S. Pawnee       Stono July 2" 1862  My dear Commodore Rodgers will tell you my opinions and feelings better than I can in a letter,...

Before Savannah,  December 11, 1864, 8 a. m.  Corse's Division is just on our right. He woke me up this morning by firing a volley of ei...

Private & Confidential  ‘Wabash’ Port Royal  April 3. 62.  My Dear Sir Since writing to the Department for more force Genl Hunter inform...

Wabash 14th Ap. 62  Port Royal.  My Dear Sir  Please publish my report about Pulaski and Rodgers' to me—in order to gratify as I think i...

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...

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,       In the Field, Savannah, Ga., December 24 , 1864 . Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, C...

Navy Department March 6” 1862. My dear Commodore: I had a long talk with McClellan to-day to see if he had any objections to givin...

4th Jany. 8 PM. Dear Sir A whale boat is up from Tybee where the Andrew had to put in having broken her rudder a second time. I send ...

Wassaw Sound Flag. Jan 4th 1861 Dear Davis — I had a conversation with a contraband on board Gillis vessel who goes up in the Harry...

[Copy] Confidential Flag, Wassaw Sound Jan y 2, 186[2] Dear Davis I learn from Isaac Tatnall Gillis, Contraband, who escaped fr...

Confidential. ‘Wabash’ Dec. 6, 61. Port Royal, SC My Dear Sir Raymond Rodgers returned this morning from a splendid reconnaissanc...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Hilton Head, Port Royal; S.C., April 3 , 1862 . Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: SIR: ...

Beaufort, S. C. April 15th, 1862. My dear Mother: Not wishing you to be exposed to disappointment, I must write a few brief lines by...

Beaufort, S. C. April 12th, 1862. I hardly know how, writing from peaceful Beaufort, I can find themes so exciting as to gratify the t...

Jan. 27th. We find all sorts of communication with home fairly cut off. Gen. Sherman has been long planning some expedition against For...

May Day, — Not unworthy of the best effort of English fine weather before the change in the calendar robbed the poets of twelve days, but s...

The "Virginia" went out again to-day. The Federal Monitor would not meet her, but ran to Fortress Monroe, either for protection, ...