SPEECH IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AUGUST 29, 1850. MR. BROWN said he designed to make a few remarks only in reply to the gentleman f...

KNOXVILLE, TENN., January 27 , 1862 . His Excellency JEFFERSON DAVIS,           President Confederate States of America: SIR: The Army of...

Private. Cin . Nov. 21, 1854.. My Dear Sir , * * * I confess I feel more uneasiness about the probable influences of the Order on our...

Flat Top Mountain , June 3, 1862. Dearest :   — I am made happy by your letter of the 24th and the picture of Webb. Enclosed I send Web...

Flat Top Mountain. — Cold, rainy, and windy, — an old-fashioned storm. Men bivouacking! Colonel Crook, of [the] Third Brigade, was attacke...

This first day of the year dawned in gloom, but the sun, like the sun of Austerlitz, soon beamed forth in great splendor upon a people radi...

Camp Flat Top Mountain , May 22, 1862. Dearest : — I have written you one or two letters which I suspect fell into the hands of the en...

Sunday!! Came again unawares upon me at Princeton. At 1 or 2 A. M. aroused to prepare to move. Moved off quietly; got off, again unmolested...

W——1, another of Provost Marshal Griswold's policemen, has arrived in Washington. I never doubted he was secretly in the Yankee service...

Camp Number 5, Princeton , May 5, 1862. Sir : — This whole region is completely conquered. Rapid movement is all that is needed to take...

Some of the late Secretary's friends are hinting that affairs will go amiss now, as if he wonld have prevented any disaster! Who gave u...

A letter from Brig. H. Marshall, Abingdon, Ky., in reply to one from the Secretary, says his Kentuckians are not willing to be made Confede...

Washington , April 29, 1859. Dear Weed , — The southern and western politicians have habits and usages different from ours. They come u...

Our flag floats over the Capitol at Frankfort! And Gen. Marshall, lately the exile and fugitive, is encamped with his men on his own farm, ...

At Department as usual. The President sent for me to meet the Secretary of War. Found he had nothing to talk about except the supply of an ...

J. C. Breckinridge and Humphrey Marshall, of Kentucky, have been here; and both have been made brigadier-generals, and assigned to duty in ...

GENERAL ORDERS No. 4 a. HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO, Louisville, Ky., January 20 , 1862 . The general commanding takes occasion...

HEADQUARTERS EIGHTEENTH BRIGADE, Prestonburg, Ky., January 11 , 1862 . I left Paintsville on Thursday noon with 1,100 men, and drove ...

Unofficial dispatches, but considered reliable, announce that Princeton, capitol of Mercer, where Gen. Cox’s advance was stationed, was att...

The tone of the Southern press grown more and more desponding.   We observe several recent articles from Southern newspapers which show th...