The deep waters are closing over us and we are in this house, like the outsiders at the time of the flood. We care for none of these things...

Sherman is thundering at Augusta's very doors. My General was on the wing, somber, and full of care. The girls are merry enough; the st...

Headquarters Division, Near Fair Oaks Station , June 5, 1862. My dear cousin: The General asks me to write you a short account of o...

Dined to-day at the President's table. Joe Davis, the nephew, asked me if I liked white port wine. I said I did not know; “all that I h...

WASHINGTON, March 11. – Official information to-day reports that the enemy were encamped back off and below Occoquan.   They have retreate...

WASHINGTON, March 11. The National Intelligencer of this morning asserts, in positive terms, that we occupy Centerville, and that the rebe...