Beautiful day—The forces at Ft. Smith ordered to remain. rations sent up by boat. New organization of troop in this Dept talked of. SOURCE...

General Stand Watie, commanding our Indian troops in the trans-Mississippi Department, has fully clothed and armed all his men, and is in th...

WASHINGTON, D. C., February 1, 1866. DEAR COLONEL:— Mr. Sherman called with me on Secretary Harlan of the Department of the Interior this ...

MAJOR JOHN L. YOUNG , of Leon, is one of the oldest practicing lawyers of Decatur County, having settled here in the fall of 1859.  Judge S...

Day cool. A. M. making Inspection reports. P. M. rec my commission as 2d Lt of co G. aggregate too low to muster. The Negro Brigade from Ft...

Quite warm beautiful day. hear Lt S is no better, disease Pnumonia, Rumors (?) of fighting near Ft Smith and boats captured SOURCE: ...

Beautiful day — The forces at Ft. Smith ordered to remain, rations sent up by boat. New organization of troop in this Dept talked of. ...

Gen Inspt. at 2 P. M. Small steam boat down from Ft. Smith SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa Infantry,”  Annals...

RICHMOND. – Yesterday morning my sister M., J. W., and myself, drove up from W. to the depot, seven miles, in a wagon, with four mules. It...

Our hearts are overwhelmed to-day with our private grief. Our connection, Gen. James Mcintosh, has fallen in battle. It was at Pea Ridge, A...

Christmas ! — Clear and pleasant — white frost. All quiet below. But it is believed on the street that Savannah has been evacuated, some...

ROLLA, MO., March 29. Reliable persons just from our army in the southwest, say that the rebels numbering some 35,000 under Van Dorn and Pr...

Lieutenant Colonel Herron, of the Ninth Iowa volunteers, one of the regiments which bore so gallant a part in the actions at Leetown and El...

ROLLA, Mo., March 29. Reliable persons just from the army in the Southwest, say the rebels, some thirty-five thousand, under Van Dorn and P...

The Eighteenth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was organized under authority of Special Orders from the War Department, dated May 21-23, 18...

FIRST COLONEL, THIRD CAVALRY. Cyrus Bussey was born on the 5th day of October, 1833, in Trumbull county, Ohio, where he lived till the year ...

COLONEL, EIGHTEENTH INFANTRY. John Edwards was born the 24th day of October, 1815, in Jefferson county, Kentucky, and lived with his paren...

We have deferred to the latest moment making up our summary of news. The reader will find but few additional particulars from the battlefie...

Aug, 16th ‘64 Mr. Caverly:– After a long delay I improve the present time to write you. In the First place I will give you a limited descrip...