Bright and very cold. A storm has driven off a portion of the enemy's fleet before Wilmington. The raid toward Gordonsville and Char...

CHRISTMAS!-Clear and pleasantwhite frost. All quiet below. But it is believed on the street that Savannah has been evacuated, some days ag...

Cloudy; rained last night. 2 P.M.—Cold, and prospects of snow. The news of Early's disaster, and loss of artillery at Strasburg, is co...

Richmond , May 25, 1861. I have been trying, dearest Mary, ever since the receipt of your letter by Custis, to write to you. I sympathis...

No news. I saw, to-day, Gen. Lee's letter of the 7th instant, simply announcing the capture of Hoke's and Haye's brigades. They...

The enemy is undoubtedly falling back on the Rappahannock, and our army is pursuing. We have about 40,000 in Lee's army, and 4t is repo...

A Mr. J. C. Jones has addressed a letter to the President asking permission to run the blockade to confer with Mr. Bates, of President Linc...

By order of Brig.-Gen. G. W. Custis Lee, the department companies were paraded to-day, armed and equipped. These, with the militia in the s...

An officer of the Signal Corps reported, yesterday, the force of Gen. Keyes, on the Peninsula, at 6000. To-day we learn that the enemy is i...

At 10 A.M. I called by appointment on Mr Sedden, the Secretary at War. His anteroom was crowded with applicants for an interview, and I ha...

Saturday. The President will be with us here in Columbia next Tuesday, so Colonel McLean brings us word. I have begun at once to prepare to...

This party for Johnny was the very nicest I have ever had, and I mean it to be my last. I sent word to the Carys to bring their own men. Th...

CAMDEN, S. C . — It is a comfort to turn from small political jealousies to our grand battles — to Lee and Kirby Smith after Council and Co...

Richmond, Va. , May 5, 1865. It was intended we should march through the city to-day, but the condition of the men after their long mar...

Headquarters Army or The Potomac , April 7,1865. Though late at night, I seize the time to send you a few lines. I don't know when ...

The North requires 600,000 men to invade us. Truly we are a formidable power! The Herald says it is useless to move with a man less than th...

NEAR PETERSBURG, 13th December, 1864. MY DEAR SON: I have been expecting to see you for some weeks, but each day that I have appointe...

CAMP, 24th July, 1864. My Dear Son: I have received your letter of the 20th. Colonel Carter's report of his operations was very s...

CAMP, PETERSBURG, 27th August, 1864. MY DEAR CUSTIS: I have received your letter of the 26th. I issued the order for the reorganizati...

CAMP, 30th April, 1864. MY DEAR CUSTIS: Nothing of much interest has occurred during the past week. The reports of scouts all indic...