(Private) New Orleans , November 28th, 1862. Dear Sir : I have frequently conversed with Gen'l. Butler about an expedition to Tex...

Hard at it all day. The Recruits leave for Houston Texas at 12, M. Heavy shower P. M. 29th Iowa ordered mustered out. The battery, encamped...

General Scurry's servant “John” had been most attentive since he had been told off to me. I made him a present of my evening clothes, w...

I paid a long visit this morning to Mr Lynn the British Consul, who told me that he had great difficulty in communicating with the outer wo...

I have to-day acquired my first experience of Texan railroads. In this country, where every white man is as good as another (by theory),...