Clear and frosty. Guns heard down the river. Dispatches came last night for ammunition-to Wilmington, I believe. We have nothing yet decisiv...

Rained hard all night. House leaking badly! We have nothing new in the papers this morning. It is said with more confidence, however, that B...

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

All quiet to-day. Brother Morris returned from Richmond yesterday, where he has been for ten days on a furlough. Before our Jewish New Year ...

On a hunt to-day several of my comrades with myself came to a house, and the first thing we heard was, "Is there a Jew in your detachme...

Gentlemen, it is with feelings of the deepest gratitude that I rise to acknowledge the toast which has now been drunk. It has been my fate t...

Cloudy and warm; light shower at 3. P.M. Gen. Lee's dispatch, giving an account of a victory last Sunday, near Winchester, has diffuse...

Clouds, sunshine, and showers. The tremendous cannonading all day yesterday at Drewry's Bluff was merely an artillery duel-brought on ...

Up to to-day nothing new, only today is my New Year (the Jewish New Year ) . SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier ...

The offices are closed, to-day, in honor of Washington's birth-day. But it is a fast day; meal selling for $40 per bushel. Money will no...

Bright, beautiful weather, with frosty nights. The dispatches I cut from the papers to-day are interesting. Gen. Wise, it appears, has met...

So lax has become Gen. Winder's rule, or deficient, or worse, the vigilance of his detectives,—the rogues and cut-throats,—one of them ...

The Senate has passed a new Conscription Act, putting all residents between the ages of eighteen and fifty-live in the military service for...

It rained moderately last night, and is cooler this morning. But the worst portion of the winter is over. The pigeons of my neighbor are bu...

Gen. Longstreet reports some small captures of the enemy's detached foraging parties. The prisoners here have now been six days with...

Hundreds were skating on the ice in the basin this morning; but it thawed all day, and now looks like rain. Yesterday the President veto...

Dispatches from both Beauregard and Whiting indicate a belief of an intention on the part of the enemy to attempt the capture of Charleston...

HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION,                   MEMPHIS, TENN., August 11, 1862. Hon. S. P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury. SIR: Y...

A memorial from the army has been presented in both houses of Congress. The speech of Mr. Foote, relative to a Dictator, has produced so...

Yesterday the Senate passed the following bill, it having previously passed the House: “ A Bill to be entitled An Act to put an end to t...