DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON, October 22, 1851. The undersigned, acting Secretary of State of the United States, has the honor to remin...

The Reconstruction Committee have reported a resolution for admitting Tennessee Members. It is, in its phraseology and conditions, in charac...

The slaveholders are bent on securing the new territories for slavery, and they see in prospective an immense slave nation embracing the Gul...

AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, October 18th, 1854. TO THE HON. WM. L. MARCY,           Secretary of State. SIR: The undersigned, in compliance with the w...

Washington , Christmas Day, 1861. My Dear Colonel: The regiment you command has, I am informed, done me the honor to assume my name. A ...

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,           Washington, April 1 , 1861 . Bvt.. Col. HARVEY BROWN, U. S Army, Washington, D. C.: SIR: You ...

Genl Slack is assigned to command our Brigade. Issues orders for drill 2 hours. Parade sundown, no enlisted men to cross the river. Gulf so...

No reports from Charleston. Am in hopes that side issues and by-play on the Mississippi are about over and that there will be some concentr...

That General Smith was a joker was conceded by everybody, our friends, the enemy, as well as the union army. When we were in Alexandria I w...

Commenced raining at, 12 O.clock last night, rained all the balance of night with moon shining brightly took breakfast in our tents, rained...

Day rather cool to be agreeable drilled the co. P. M. 1 hour, rained at 8 P. M. News is that a Rebel Ram French built has appeared in the G...

Last night quite cold, strong North wind, morning very cold & windy, no wood, water in Gulf two ft— lower on beach than any time since ...

We have reliable intelligence of the sinking of the U. S. gun-boat Hatteras, in the Gulf, by the Alabama. She was iron-clad, and all the of...

Slept well, rained all night. At 10. a. m. start through pass, aground at 11. Brown with 4 co of our Regt passes us here. Men runing short ...

Soon after recruiting for the 13th Connecticut Regiment Infantry Volunteers was begun, I entered the recruiting service, and during the w...

Burlington, August 17, 1861. I have received your favor of the 15th instant, in which you congratulate me upon my return to the State...

Headquarters Department Op The Gulp, Nineteenth Army Corps, New Orleans , Aug. 16, 1863. I believe I may be said literally to have...

The following significant article from the Richmond Examiner of the 16th inst., shows that the rebels are uncomfortably oppressed by the vi...

The next naval expedition, which is now preparing at New York and other points, is to be commanded by Com. Farragut, and reports are abroad...

NEW YORK, April 8. – A ship Island letter of the 24th ult., reports the arrival of Gen. Butler on the 20th. A rebel fleet of seven gun...