Cloudy and cold; froze hard last night. Yesterday a bill was introduced into both houses of Congress authorizing the enlistment of 200,000...

PETERSBURG, December 10, 1864. About noon yesterday the First Division of Second Corps of enemy, supporting their cavalry, forced back ou...

Clear and cold. We have nothing from below. From Wilmington, we learn there is much commotion to resist the armada launched against that por...

Calm and warm; clouds and sunshine, without wind. All quiet below. It is reported that one of our picket boats in the James River deserted...

Near Chaffin's Bluff, on James River, Va.,           August 8, 1864. The weather for the last few days has been intensely hot. It is v...

Near Petersburg, Va.,           Sunday, October 2, 1864. Last Thursday afternoon we received orders to be in readiness to move to the nort...

Near Petersburg, Va .,           October 12, 1864. I have not received a letter from you for several days, as there seems to be something ...

Near Petersburg, Va.,           October 29, 1864. I suppose you have heard how we whipped the Yankees on both this side and the north side...

Near Petersburg, Va . ,           November 3, 1864. We are still quiet. Nothing is going on except the continual fighting of the skirmishe...

Near Petersburg, Va . ,           November 28, 1864. The mails seem to be greatly deranged again, for I have not heard one word from you i...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA,           October 24, 1864. Capt. J. K. MITCHELL,           Flag Officer, Commanding James River Squ...

 I went with Postmaster-General Dennison and a portion of our families and a few friends on board the Santiago de Cuba, one of our fast vess...

Hot and dry. At 3 P. M. rained about three minutes. We are burning up. There is no war news. A rumor in the street says Atlanta has fallen...

Cloudy and pleasant. Still we have no authentic account of the details of the fights on the north side of the James River. We know we lost...

Clear, dry, and  hot. A dispatch from Gen. Lee (I have not seen it yet) says, in the repulse of the enemy's assault on the breach made...

Clear and dry. It is believed that a battery sent down opposite to Harrison's Bar in the James River sank two of the enemy's trans...

The President yet remains with the army, and the indications are that a great and perhaps final battle is near. Tom writes me, dating his le...

Hot and dry. Twelve hundred Federal prisoners passed our door to-day, taken at Petersburg—about half the number captured there during the ...

GUERILLA HUNTING. The country above here and that part of it lying between the Suffolk and James rivers is a good deal infected with guerr...

WE LEAVE YORKTOWN. On the afternoon of the 4th we went aboard the boats and dropped anchor at Fortress Monroe at dusk. The next morning we...