HEAD-QUARTERS CONFEDERATE STATES ARMIES,           February 18, 1865. HON. E. BARKSDALE,           House of Representatives, Richmond. Sir: ...

We have further reports from the West, confirming the success of Longstreet. It is said he has taken 2200 prisoners, and is probably at Kno...

Alas! that this news should find us still embarrassed, and still diddling with the negro question!   Alas! That we should still have one wa...

We have no news whatever, except some damage reported at Charleston, done to two monitors yesterday. The bombardment has assumed no new pha...

Miss Harriet H. Fort, of Baltimore, has arrived via Accomac and Northampton Counties, with a complete drawing of all the defenses of Baltim...

Governor Brown, Georgia, writes the Secretary that he is opposed to impressments, and that the government should pay the market price — wha...

Nothing from the North or West to-day. But Beauregard telegraphs that the enemy's batteries and monitors opened this morning heavily on...

We have nothing additional from Bragg, except confirmation of his victory from Northern journals; and it is reported that Meade is sending ...

Letters were received to-day from Gens. Beauregard, Mercer, Whitney, and S. Jones. It appears that Beauregard has some 6000 men of all ...

Gen. Beauregard is eager to have completed the “Torpedo Ram,” building at Charleston, and wants a “great gun” for it. But the Secretary of ...

We have dispatches (unofficial) from the West, stating that one of the enemy's gun-boats has been sunk in attempting to pass Vicksburg,...

Vienna, December, 1, 1861. My Dearest Mother : Your letter of November 5 reached us a few days ago. It is always a great delight to m...