The drought continues; vegetation wilting and drying up. There is no war news, save some shelling by the enemy at Petersburg The raiders h...

Cold rain all might and all day; wind northwest. The Quartermaster-General now recommends that no furloughs be given, so as to devote the ...

Cloudy morning, with ice; subsequently a snowstorm all day long. No war news. But meat and grain are coming freely from the South. This give...

Bright and warmer, but windy. Letters received at the department to-day, from Georgia, show than only one-eighth of the capacity of the ra...

BELLE PLAIN, VA., May 13, 1864. On the S. C. boat, pulling up to the shore Government flatboats of horses and cavalry recruits. There a...

It is clear and cold again. Custis came home last evening, after a week's sojourn at Chaffim’s Bluff, where, however, there were tents....

We have an unintelligible dispatch from Gen. Bragg, saying he had, yesterday, a prolonged contest with the enemy for the possession of Look...

No news from any quarter, except the continued bombardment of the debris of Fort Sumter, and the killing and wounding of some 10 or 12 men ...

Portsmouth, Va. , May 11th, 1863. For a week we heard, without anxiety, the booming of the guns at Suffolk, and we begged to be allowed...

Moved on to the 2nd Corps inside of the entrenchments. 6th Corps moved out too late yesterday to relieve us. Tore up several miles of the W...

The Northern papers say Hooker's grand division crossed the Rappahannock, ten miles above Falmouth, several days ago. Burnside h...