Mr. Ruggles had a long private talk yesterday with General Scott, some portion whereof he imparted to me, including matters I don’t care to ...

FORT MOULTRIE, S. C., May 23, 1843. My Dear Brother: *           *           *           *           *           *           *          ...

FORT MOULTRIE, S.C., Jan. 19, 1844. My Dear  Brother : It was about the middle of November, and on one of those mornings so peculiar to yo...

FORT MOULTRIE, S.C., Oct. 24, 1844. My Dear Brother: . . . What in the devil are you doing? Stump speaking! I really thought you were too...

SMITHVILLE, N.C., April 4, 1845. My Dear  Brother : I am going to return to Charleston to-night by sea, and expect to be turned wrong side...

FORT MOULTRIE, S.C., Jan. 4, 1846. My Dear  Brother : I had to go to North Carolina on a wedding tour at Christmas time, and as soon as I...

You may be surprised to learn that in a few days I will go to New York City and then to some place to me still unknown. Tell mother that she...

[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 ...

[Special Dispatch to the Charleston Courier.] WASHINGTON, December 27, 7 P. M.—Secretary FLOYD says positively that he knows nothing offic...

Maj. ROBERT ANDERSON, U. S. A., has achieved the unenviable distinction of opening civil war between American citizens by an act of gross br...

To-night the telegraph reports the evacuation of Fort Moultrie by the Federal troops by order of the Executive, and the burning of the fort....

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...

[W]e took a morning ride, Mrs. Welles being able to go with us, and drove about the place. Returning to the wharf, we took a tug, visited th...

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 ...

Admiral Farragut’s dispatch relative to the capture of Fort Morgan and the infamous conduct of General Page in spiking his guns after his su...

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