(Private) New Orleans , January 15th, 1863. Dear Sir : A fight is progressing on Bayou Teche. Gen. Weitzel commands. He crossed Berwi...

(Private) New Orleans , January 2nd, 1863. Dear Sir : Everything remains nearly as when I last wrote. Troops have been moving up to B...

(Private) New Orleans , November 28th, 1862. Dear Sir : I have frequently conversed with Gen'l. Butler about an expedition to Tex...

(Private) New Orleans , Nov. 14th, 1862. Dear Sir: Four days ago, General Butler showed me the letter he had just received from you,...

(Private) New Orleans, October 27th, 1862. Dear Sir : Gen. Weitzel left here three days ago, with five Regiments Infantry, four compa...

(Private.) New Orleans , Sept. 30th, 1862. Dear Sir : I am informed that six gunboats left this vicinity four days ago, to attack Gal...

I met at the President's, and was introduced by him to, Colonel Rawlins of General Grant's staff. He arrived yesterday with the off...

Run into Galveston at 8. A. M. lie all day with orders to proceed at high tide tomorrow, business part of town dead. Suburbs beautiful, fin...

Storm nearly all night. Wind high all day but so unsteady that the sea remains comparatively smooth. Several of the officers and quite a no...

Very warm. Rec marching orders & a small mail ordered to be ready to march at 4 A. M. tomorrow transportation furnished to Galveston on...

Seems to be the opinion that we will remain here sometime Regt are ordered to clear the brush from about the camp & keep them well poli...

Nothing of special importance at the Cabinet. Seward was absent, and I therefore called on him respecting his circular dispatch concerning ...

Seward sent me this morning a scary dispatch which he proposed to give each of the foreign ministers, in relation to the blockade at Galves...

The Northern papers say the Federals have taken Vicksburg; but we are incredulous. Yet we have no reliable intelligence from thence; and it...

I paid a long visit this morning to Mr Lynn the British Consul, who told me that he had great difficulty in communicating with the outer wo...

As the steamer had not arrived in the morning, I left by railroad for Galveston. General Scurry insisted upon sending his servant to wait u...

I have to-day acquired my first experience of Texan railroads. In this country, where every white man is as good as another (by theory),...

I slept well last night in spite of the tics and fleas, and we started at 5.30 P.M. After passing a dead rattlesnake eight feet long, we re...

The through mail, with Santa Fe dates to the 11th, and Ft. Union 15th, arrived today. After the battle of Pyon’s Ranch, Col. Slough fell ba...