I came off guard this morning. It rained very hard all the latter part of the night. Another boat load of troops came down last night, makin...

8½ Oc we left the packet and formed in line on the levvy St Louis 10 Oc we started for Benton Barracks had a verry Dirty time 12 Oc we arriv...

WILL McClellan display unity in conception, and vigor in execution? That is the question. He seems very energetic and active in organizing t...

No. 1. Reports of Brig. Gen. U. S. Grant, U. S. Army, commanding District of Southeast Missouri, and including operations against Thompson...

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....

Northeast storm badly affects weak men. I know of twenty who since yesterday have sunk to utter helplessness; others have died within a few ...

On the high land overlooking the Potomac, about six or seven miles above the Navy Yard at Washington, we have, since our arrival here, throw...

Grand review before President Lincoln, Gens. Scott and Fremont. Salutes were fired. SOURCE: Theodore Reichardt, Diary of Battery A, First ...

[BOYDTON, VA.], April 20, 1850. MY DEAR HUNTER: I live five miles from our Post Office. The other day I despatched a letter to Mason and t...

Sunshine and cloudy-warmer. There is a calm in military matters, but a storm is gathering in the Valley of Virginia. Both sides are concen...

NEWPORT NEWS. I am now on the sacred soil of old Virginia, and my first care will be to seek an introduction to some of the F. F. V's....

Wrote Gilpin, District Attorney at Philadelphia, in answer to his private letter as to prosecution for frauds in Philadelphia Navy Yard. T...

Montgomery Blair No business of importance brought before the Cabinet to-day. Some newspaper rumors of peace, and of letters from Jeff Davis...