With but short intervals, Slocum's guns have been heard all day. About three o'clock in the evening we hear to our right a sullen ro...

After the fall of Fort McAllister, we obtain some supplies, but for the seventy thousand hungry soldiers they soon run out. For the last wee...

Cloudy and cool. A dispatch from the West states that the enemy have made a heavy raid from Bean's Station, Ky., cutting the railroad ...

Clear and pleasant; subsequently cloudy and chilly. All quiet below, save the occasional booming of our guns from the iron-clads. The ca...

Same place,  December 9, 1864.  The division lay in camp all day. Our regiment marched 12 miles on a reconnoisance, toward the Canoochie riv...

Before Savannah,  December 15, 1864.  First mail goes in 15 minutes. Our ad Division charged and took Fort McAlister, at sunset, the 13th—19...

ON BOARD DANDELION,                                     Ossabaw Sound, December 13 , 1864 — 11 . 50 p.m.                 (Received 15 ...

Christmas day and didn't hang up my stocking. No matter, it wouldn't have held anything. Last Christmas we spent on Belle Island, l...

This diary must soon come to an end. Will fill the few remaining pages and then stop. Co. “I” boys are very kind. They have reduced soldier...

This morning got up cold and stiff; not enough covering. Pushed off in the direction pointed out by the darkey of yesterday. Have come in t...

ON BOARD DANDELION,             Ossabaw Sound, December 13 , 1864 — 11 . 50 p.m.   (Received 15 th.) General H. W. HALLECK, Washing...

Yesterday the government seized the flour in the mills and warehouses; and now the price has risen from $30 to $40 per barrel. I wrote to t...

The enemy bombarded Fort McAlister again yesterday, several gun-boats opening fire on it. It lasted all day; during winch one of the iron-c...

The enemy burnt the steamship Nashville on Saturday near Savannah. She was employed taking provisions to Fort McAlister. I think it was des...

Returned last evening from strictly confidential visit to New York. Some discussion in Cabinet-meeting to-day on letters of marque. ...

After the feat at Charleston, Gen. Beauregard and Commodore Ingraham invited the consuls resident to inspect the harbor, and they pronounce...

We have dispatches from Charleston, to-day, which reconcile us to the loss of the cargo captured by the blockading squadron early in the we...

It appears from the Northern press that the enemy did make three attempts last week to cross the Rappahannock; but as they advanced toward ...

The bombardment of Fort McAlister continued five hours yesterday, when the enemy's boats drew off. The injury to the fort can be repair...

It is too true that several thousand of our men were captured at Arkansas Post, and that Little Rock is now in danger. There seems to b...