THE truth about Bull Run will, perhaps, only reach the people when it becomes reduced to an historical use. I gather what I am sure is true....

NEW YORK, FIFTH AVENUE, June 26, 1887. Dear Brother :  I have just returned from Saratoga and Lake George, and am now arranging for Provid...

Dear Brother: I am perfectly content to have retired when I did, as the present  régime  makes Sheridan's command of the army a farce. T...

(From the Richmond Examiner, May 2.) The President and his family have just met with a great affliction in the sudden and violent death of...

The Richmond Examiner of May 2 announces the sudden and violent death of Joseph E. Davis, a lad four years of age, second son of Jefferson ...

. . . have just met with a great affliction in the sudden and violent death of Joseph E. Davis, second son of the President, about four year...

JOSEPH E. DAVIS, second son of the rebel leader, aged four years, was killed on the 30th ult., by falling from a portico of the family mansi...

The accident which has brought mourning to the hearthstone of President Davis is sad indeed, and the afflicted family will have the sincere ...

. . . the afflicting dispensation of Providence which removed from this world a beautiful child of President Davis. It has created a void ne...

A most distressing accident occurred at the President’s Mansion on Saturday afternoon last. About 5 o’clock Joseph E. Davis, about four year...

HEADQUARTERS,           April 1 , 1865 . His Excellency President DAVIS, Richmond, Va.: General Beauregard has been ordered to make arrang...

Clear and pleasant. Walked to the department. We have vague and incoherent accounts from excited couriers of fighting, without result, in Di...

Bright and beautiful. The tocsin was sounded this morning at daybreak, and the militia ordered to the fortifications, to relieve some regime...

Bright and pleasant. Stayed with my next door neighbors at their request last night—all females. It was quiet; and so far the United State...

Slight showers. Wm. Ira Smith, tailor, and part owner of the Whig, has continued the publication as a Union paper. I visited the awful c...

Raining. I was startled in bed by the sound of cannon from the new southside fort again. I suppose another hundred guns were fired; and I le...

Cloudy and misty. It is reported that Gen. Johnston has surrendered his army in North Carolina, following the example of Gen. Lee. But no sa...

Warm and cloudy. Gen. Weitzel publishes an order to-day, requiring all ministers who have prayed for the President of the Confederate Stat...

Wirz, Gen. John H. Winder, commissary general of prisoners, Howell Cobb and several minor personages came inside on horseback and rode partl...

Col. Davis, Lieut. Col. McClung—Officers and Soldiers of the First Mississippi Rifles: Veteran Volunteers—the Star Regiment—men of Montere...