In camps yet, with nothing to do and plenty to eat, and no fear of the enemy's pursuit. We had a military execution here yesterday, on t...

Nothing of interest doing here. The news is not encouraging. Grant has burned Jackson and evacuated the place, falling back toward Vicksburg...

Yesterday we made short marches, halting at every good shade to rest. The heat was very oppressive. At Clinton a brigade was sent to meet th...

Jackson.—We took position in the ditches early in the morning of the 9th, and have been here ever since, under fire of the enemy's sharp...

Still at our camps near Jackson doing absolutely nothing, living on the shortest possible commons. Had dress-parade yesterday for the first ...

Still at our camp of the 6th inst., with plenty of wood and abundance of good spring and lake water; no improvement in the rations. Yesterda...

CAMP 15 MILES NORTH OF JACKSON, MISS.—Another month has passed away since my last writing—a month big with events in the history of the Fort...

[ST. LOUIS, MO.] My visit South was in every sense agreeable. My old friends in Alexandria did all they could to make us welcome, and I wa...

VICKSBURG, MISS.—We left Jackson this morning and arrived at this place a few minutes since, traveling forty miles by rail in twelve hours, ...

ST. LOUIS, Sunday, Dec. 30, 1866. Dear Brother: I came up from New Orleans right through the country that I had been the means of raiding ...

After traveling briskly all morning we arrive at Trenton on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. We notice that here too war's scourge has been...

NEAR VICKSBURG, July 3, 1863. Major-General SHERMAN: Pemberton wants conditions to march out paroled, &c. The conditions wanted are su...

PARKE'S, July 3, 1863. General GRANT: I am this moment in, and have your dispatch. Telegraph me the moment you have Vicksburg in posse...

HEADQUARTERS FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS,           Camp before Jackson, July 12, 1863. General Lauman, in taking position to-day, got his line un...

HEADQUARTERS,           Before Jackson, Miss., July 12 , 1863 -- 12 m. Port Hudson being ours, and Holmes repulsed at Helena, the Missou...

HEADQUARTERS,           Army before Jackson, July 14 , 1863 — 8 p.m. GENERAL: All is well with us. I think I have troops enough. Johnsto...

HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE TENN., Vicksburg, Miss., July 14 , 1863 . Major-General HERRON,  Comdg. Yazoo Expedition: GENERAL: You may remain in...

HEADQUARTERS,           Army before Jackson, July 17, 1863—6 a.m. General Johnston, evacuated Jackson last night. I will occupy it with o...

JACKSON, July 17 , 1863 — 8 p.m. I have just made the circuit of Jackson. We are in full possession, and Johnston is retreating east, wi...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE, July 1, 1863. GENERAL: I am just in from a circuit. All is absolutely silent along Big Black Rive...