MEMPHIS, TENN., June 10, 1863. Lieut. Col. JOHN A. RAWLINS, Assistant Adjutant-General: COLONEL: I have received to-day one letter from Ca...

May 9, 1864. Yesterday we traveled southeast, crossing six or seven ridges, one or two of which were quite high. Taylor's was the h...

Winchester, Tenn., November 11, 1863. We arrived here at 9 this a. m., our brigade making the distance from Salem, 11 miles, in three h...

WAR DEPARTMENT,           Washington, December 7 , 1864 — 10 . 20 a.m. Lieutenant-General GRANT: You remember that when Steele was...

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Jackson, Tenn., March 5, 1863. You certainly should not complain of my neglect, in writing no more than ...

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Jackson, Tenn., February 25, 1863. I guess it's full two weeks since I wrote you last, excepting a h...

Provost Marshal's Office, Waterford, Miss., December 30, 1862. Fifteen days outside the world and still we live. No papers of lat...

Nashville , Feb. 1, 1864. . . . News from Knoxville is uninteresting. So says General Foster, commanding there. Scouts of General Dodge...

St. Louis, Mo ., April 2, 1862. DEAR FATHER: — I know there is no one who would like to have a word from me more than you. I write but ...

Executive Chamber, Des Moines, Iowa , May 25, 1861. Capt. G. M. Dodge: Dear Sir — I hereby confide to you a communication to Major...

SPOTSYLVANIA COURT-HOUSE, May 13 , 1864 . Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War, Washington, D.C.: I beg leave to recommend the fol...

How about our Brigadiers? You know I long ago recommended Crocker, Dodge and Perczel and I yet think them among our best colonels as you wi...

[February 10, 1862.] I do not get any reply to my letters to the President in regard to brigading our Iowa regiments and the appointmen...

[December 4, 1861.] His Excellency the President: — The State of Iowa has now in the field and in camp, waiting arms and equipments, fo...

Headquarters Mil. Div. Western Iowa, Council Bluffs, May 8, 1861. Colonel Means: Dear Sir : — I am informed that you are in command...

Council Bluffs, Iowa, May 6, 1861. To The Citizens Of Western Iowa. In order more fully to carry out the desire of the Governor o...

We passed a miserable night, for we had no tents and the ground was wet from yesterday's rain; besides, the ground is so rough and hill...

WASHINGTON, April 10. – The Senate in Executive Session to-day confirmed the nomination of Col. G. M. Dodge of Iowa, Col. R. S. Canby of th...

(Herald’s Special.) The House considered the amendments to the Tax bill.   Among others agreed to are the following: Tennessee to h...

LATER FROM ISLAND NO. 10. WASHINGTON, March 24. – Col. Segur, representative from the Accomac district arrived here this morning confir...