HEADQUARTERS ELEVENTH BRIGADE,                     Columbia, December 13, 1861.           (Received December 14, 1861.) Brig. Gen. GEORGE H...

We remained at Barboursville. Col. Rains ordered his demi-brigade to cook three days' rations and be ready to move early the next mornin...

According to previous instructions (see under 25th instant), Col. Rains, with his regiment, McNairy's Battalion and Falcond's sectio...

Col. Rains had learned that Col. Brown, who was in command of the Home Guards that had fled to Wildcat the evening before, lived some two or...

Harris's (B) and Ewing's (C) companies arrived from Knoxville and rejoined the rest of McNairy's Battalion at Camp Buckner. Be...

We moved on to Camp Zollicoffer. about two miles north-west of Livingston. Here we found the Twenty-fifth Tennessee Infantry, Colonel S. S. ...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,              Louisville, Ky., November 6 , 1861 . General L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General: S...

Doctortown Station , No. 5.—Ha! Ha! My boy, you are a prisoner of war again. Once more with a blasted rebel standing guard over me, and it ...

Northern papers received yesterday evening contain a letter from Mr. Lincoln to the Illinois Convention of Republicans, in which I am told ...

Before noon the steamer hauled along-side a stationary hulk at Baton Rouge, which once “walked the waters” by the aid of machinery, but whi...

HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS, Fort Monroe, Va., July – , 1863 . (Received July 18 .) GENERAL: On the 14th of June...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE EAST, New York City, December 15 , 1863 . Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief: GENERAL: In y...

Camp Hayes, Raleigh, Virginia. — Before breakfast. A lovely day. Captain Haven returned last night after an extensive scout; burned seven e...

It required very little persuasion to induce those gentlemen to stay to supper, the other evening, and it was quite late before they took t...

I believe I forgot to mention one little circumstance in my account of that first night at the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, which at the time stru...

Cedarcroft , Sunday, April 21, 1861. Everything here is upside down. We live almost in a state of siege, with the rumors of war flying ...

We surely “dwell in the midst of alarms.” We were roused from our beds this morning at five o'clock by an order for the impressment of ...

Went on the street to hear some news; found that a dispatch had been received, ordering a body of men to go on to Pattonsburg to burn down ...

Again the Cadets and Home Guard are summoned out; they started yesterday; and Mr. P. went early this morning. It is a cold raw day, and the...

I feel angry when I have been tortured to no purpose, as now. This evening the Cadets and Home Guard are back again without anything happen...