For nine days I have been prevented from making usual notes. Little passed I care to recall; I force myself to write today. I know no one wh...

Some of our boys went down the river that morning before day to assist in bringing the wounded, on horses, back to a point out of range of t...

NASHVILLE, January 27 , 1862 . J. D. C. ATKINS, Member Congress: Crittenden can never rally troops [in] East Tennessee. Some other genera...

NASHVILLE, September 13, 1861. His Excellency JEFFERSON DAVIS: On 4th instant I sent John Marshall, Andrew Ewing, and Dr. Bowling as commi...

RICHMOND, September 13, 1861. Governor HARRIS, Nashville, Tenn.: Movement to Columbus was reported to me as a defensive measure, rendered...

KNOXVILLE, September 14, 1861. Adjutant-General COOPER: Governor Harris and General Buckner telegraphed me if possible to arrest the movem...

KNOXVILLE, September 16, 1861. General A. S. JOHNSTON, Memphis, Tenn.: SIR: On the 10th instant I apprised Adjutant-General Cooper that ...

As Tennesseans were then offering their services faster than the state was prepared to arm and equip them, it was after hard begging that Go...

NASHVILLE, TENN. , April 17 , 1861 . Hon. SIMON CAMERON, Secretary of War: SIR: Your dispatch of 15th instant, informing me that Te...

Another dispatch from Bragg, received at a late hour last night, says the victory is complete. This announcement has lifted a heavy load fr...

Still raining! The great fear is that the crops will be ruined, and famine, which we have long been verging upon, will be complete. Is Prov...

A dispatch from Gov. Harris gives some additional particulars of the battle near Murfreesborough, Tenn. He says the enemy was driven back s...

Headquarters 2 d Brigade S. C. Beaufort, S. C. March 2d, 1862. My dear Mother: In the short letter I wrote you last week, I menti...

Dec. 8th. I have heard this morning of poor Beckham's death. What a cruel, hard thing is war! The individual suffering, however, is the...

From the Nashville Union, 29th It is a source of honorable pride to contemplate the elements which constitute the loyal portion of our ...

CAIRO, March 31. – Scattered columns of the rebel infantry and cavalry have been collected together and are hovering about Columbus, Hickma...

At a meeting of the Pioneer Association of Cincinnati, held on Saturday last, Parson Brownlow made another characteristic speech.   We find...