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...

Received mail from Admiral Farragut. Among his dispatches one confidential, inclosing a letter from General Canby, who had received a singul...

Most of the vessels sent out in pursuit of the Tallahassee have returned, and with scarcely an exception the commanders have proved themselv...

When we read of the battles in India, in Italy, in the Crimea, what did we care? Only an interesting topic, like any other, to look for in ...