Two French men-of-war and the Monitor, close to the Onrust. Eighteen men from the centre section were sent to Hampton Roads in a small boat,...

Returned to Hampton at daylight. The battery and horses were unloaded at once. General Sedgwick ordered the battery to go to camp outside of...

Hampton Roads. Great concentration of McClellan's army. Our battery has to give up the tents. SOURCE: Theodore Reichardt,  Diary of Ba...

We are now on the “heaving sea and the bounding wave.” We were aroused yesterday morning at four o'clock, ordered to prepare breakfast a...

Newport News is a military post, and is of no importance in any other sense. There were no villages or cities here previous to the war. Now ...

The President and Mr. Seward have gone to Hampton Roads to have an interview with the Rebel commissioners, — Stephens, Hunter, and Campbell....