Bright and beautiful, and pleasantly frosty. Gen. Sherman is advancing as usual in such dubiety as to distract Gen. Hardee, who knows not wh...

Bright and frosty. As I supposed, the peace commissioners have returned from their fruitless errand. President Lincoln and Mr. Seward, it ap...

Cloudy and cold; froze hard last night. Yesterday a bill was introduced into both houses of Congress authorizing the enlistment of 200,000...

(Waiting at the depot). Going as usual to the department this morning, I found orders had been issued for our immediate removal to Richmond....

I left home* to rejoin the battalion near Murfreesboro. After a ride of nineteen miles I, with several others of Allison's Company, stop...

Clear, and very cold. We lost gun-boat Drewry yesterday in an unsuccessful attempt to destroy the enemy's pontoon bridge down the river....

Clear, and coldest morning of the winter. None but the rich speculators and quartermaster and commissary speculators have a supply of food a...

SAVANNAH, December 15, 1864.           (Via Hardeeville 16th.) His Excellency President DAVIS: Sherman has secured a water base, and Fost...

Warm and cloudy. Quiet below. The President was reported better, yesterday, to my wife, who called. It is said Gen. Cooper, R. Ould, e...

Raining-rained all night. The dark and dismal weather, together with our sad reverses, have made the countenances of croakers in the streets...

A night of rain—morning of fog and gloom. At last we have an account of the evacuation of Savannah. Also of the beginning of the assault on ...

AUGUSTA, December 1 , 1864 . Col. JOHN B. SALE,           Military Secretary, Richmond: Following received from Lieutenant-General Taylor...

AUGUSTA, December 4 , 1864 .           (Received 1 p.m.) Col. JOHN B. SALE,           Military Secretary, Richmond: The column is moving ...

Bright and beautiful. Anne Samuels and many other ladies, Harrisonburg, Virginia, have petitioned the government for authority to organize...

GRIFFIN, November 16 , 1864 — 4 p.m.           (Received Richmond 1.10 p.m. 17th.) General BRAGG: Enemy checked this evening near Bear Cre...

No. 248. Report of Col. Ellison Capers, Twenty-fourth South Carolina Infantry, of operations September 29-December 2, 1864. CHARLESTON, S.C...

Clear, but a smoky atmosphere, like Indian summer. A dispatch was received to-day at m. from Gen. Hood, dated last night at 10 o'clock...

HEADQUARTERS ATLANTA,           July 23d, 1864 Hon. James A. Seddon, Secretary of War: The enemy shifted his position on Peach Tree Creek la...

NEAR ATLANTA, July 22, 1864—10.30 p.m. Hon. J. A. SEDDON, Richmond: The army shifted its position last night, fronting Peach Tree Creek, a...

Have intelligence this evening of the capture of Savannah. Hardee fled with his forces. The Rebellion is drawing to a close. These operati...