Congress adjourned yesterday at five o'clock P.M. I have heard nothing of Mr. Brooks and the Passport Bill I drafted. The truth is that...

General H é bert is a good-looking creole.* He was a West-Pointer, and served in the old army, but afterwards became a wealthy sugar-plante...

As the steamer had not arrived in the morning, I left by railroad for Galveston. General Scurry insisted upon sending his servant to wait u...

I called on General Scurry, and found him suffering from severe ophthalmia. When I presented General Magruder's letter, he insisted tha...

Gen. Lovell, it is said, will be tried by a court-martial. The same has been said of Generals Magruder and Huger. But I doubt it. SO...

O praise the Lord, O my soul! Here is good news enough to make me happy for a month! Brother is so good about that! Every time he hears goo...

To-day Gen. Magruder led his division into action at Malvern Hill, it is said, contrary to the judgment of other commanders. The enemy'...

And Gen. Johnston, I learn, has had his day. And Magruder is on “sick leave.” He is too open in his censures of the late Secretary of War. ...

Now our troubles commenced. Seated in Mexican saddles, and mounted on raw-boned mustangs, whose energy had been a good deal impaired by a m...

I slept well last night in spite of the tics and fleas, and we started at 5.30 P.M. After passing a dead rattlesnake eight feet long, we re...

I took an affectionate leave of Don Pablo, Behnsen, Oetling, & Co., all of whom were in rather weak health on account of last night...

The Texan and I left the Immortality in her cutter, at 10 A.M., and crossed the bar in fine style. The cutter was steered by Mr Johnston, t...

Mr. Benjamin has been promoted. He is now Secretary of State. . His successor in the War Department is G. W. Randolph, a lawyer of m...

SAMUEL BRECK PARKMAN, son of Samuel Breck Parkman, was born on the Sand-hills, near Augusta, Ga., the summer residence of his father, 1 Nov...

Just returned from Richmond. B's situation still precarious, and I am obliged to stay with him a great deal. I see a number of officers...

Halcott Green came to see us. Bragg is a stern disciplinarian, according to Halcott. He did not in the least understand citizen soldiers. I...

My husband has come. He believes from what he heard in Richmond that we are to be recognized as a nation by the crowned heads across the wa...

Victory! Victory heads every telegram now; 1 one reads it on the bulletin-board. It is the anniversary of the battle of Fort Moultrie. The...

Gen. Magruder commands on the Peninsula. President Tyler had a villa near Hampton, which the Yankees despoiled in a barbarous manner. They ...

Mecklenburg County . — Mr. —— and myself summoned here a short time ago to see our daughter, who was very ill. Found her better — she is st...