CLARKSVILLE, September 15, 1861. His Excellency JEFFERSON DAVIS, Richmond, Va.: I am just from Nashville, where some dissatisfaction pre...

NEW ORLEANS, April 7, 1860. MY DEAR MAJOR: I have just received the enclosed letter from Captain G. W. Smith, 1 which speaks for itself. ...

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 23, 1860. MY DEAR MAJOR: Allow me to introduce to you my nephew, Master Stephen R. Proctor, who desires to become a memb...

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,       In the Field, Savannah, Ga., December 24 , 1864 . Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, C...

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,       In the Field, Savannah, Ga., December 24, 1864. Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, Chi...

Gen. Longstreet is now in command of Gen. Smith's late department, besides his own corps. Richmond is safe. Our papers contain a...

The resignation of Gen. Gustavus W. Smith has been accepted by the President. It was well done — the acceptance, I mean. Who will Gen. Wind...

There is a rumor that Major-Gen. Gustavus W. Smith has tendered his resignation. Some idea may be formed of the scarcity of food in ...

There is a rumor that Kentucky has voted to raise an army of 60,000 men to resist the execution of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. ...

Gen. Smith writes that he deems Wilmington in a condition to resist any attacks. The exposition of Mr. Benjamin's dispatches has cr...

Gen. Lee is in the city, doubtless to see about the pressure upon him for reinforcements in North Carolina. Gen. Smith still writes from Go...

We have nothing additional from Murfreesborough, but it is ascertained that the bridges burned by the enemy on the Virginia and Tennessee R...

The battle of Fredericksburg is still the topic, or the wonder, and it transpired more than nine days ago. It will have its page in history...

A dispatch from Gen. G. W. Smith, last night, says we have repulsed the enemy from Kinston, N. C., but a dispatch this morning says a caval...

After all, Fredericksburg was severely shelled — whether designedly or incidentally in the fight, does not yet appear. Our army has fal...

We have been listening two hours to the sound of cannon in the direction of Strasburg or Front Royal. A report comes in, that Milroy camped...

Well, the President is a bold man! He has put in Randolph's place, temporarily at least, Major-Gen. Gustavus W. Smith — who was Street ...

I watch the daily orders of Adjutant and Inspector-Gen. Cooper. These, when “by command of the Secretary of War,” are intelligible to any o...

If it be not a Yankee electioneering trick to operate at the election in New York, on the fourth of November, the Northern correspondence w...

From information (pretty direct from Washington), I believe it is the purpose of the enemy to make the most strenuous efforts to capture Ri...