Having had some business with the Colonel of the 12th Wisconsin which is stationed on our extreme right in Sherman's corps, and as near ...

Great excitemenent. Rebels hung out flag of truce and General Grant has gone to meet General Pemberton. All are on the qui-vive to know what...

Pemberton accepted Grant's terms which the reader of this must look to some history to see what they are. Orders came to hold ourselves ...

On the morning of the 3rd when the rebels hung the flag of truce from their fort on the Jackson road, word soon passed along our whole line ...

The sky is overcast with clouds, a cool breeze comes from the west, which makes the temperature delightful. I have been out berrying, and ha...

Cloudy, cold, and dismal. We have no news except from the North, whence we learn Lieut. Beall, one of our Canada raiders, has been hung; tha...

Last Wednesday we moved from our encampment at Mound Bluff Church, and after two days' marching, came to this place, and we are now enca...

Bright, clear, and cold. It is said the government depot at Charlotte, N. C., has been burned (accidentally), consuming a large amount of ...

Cloudy and calm. All quiet. It was a false alarm yesterday evening. Nothing but some of the enemy's cavalry scouts were seen from the ...

Cloudy, windy, and very cold. I hear of no operations yesterday, although, as usual, some cannonnading was audible yesterday evening. It...

Bright and beautiful. As I walked down to the department, heavy and brisk cannonading below assailed the ear. It was different from the or...

Cloudy, damp, and pleasant. A rain fell last night, wetting the earth to a considerable depth; and the wind being southeast, we look for cop...

Very hot; very dry; very dusty. The President has directed the late Gen. (now Lieut.-Col.) Pemberton to organize a mortar and cavalry force ...

Clear and hot. Dispatches from Bragg, at Montgomery, of yesterday, give no accounts of more fighting, although the press dispatches, etc. ...

ORD'S HEADQUARTERS, July 3, 1863. General GRANT: In reply to your intimation that if General Pemberton wished an interview he would sh...

NEAR VICKSBURG, July 3, 1863. Major-General SHERMAN: Pemberton wants conditions to march out paroled, &c. The conditions wanted are su...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE,           Near Vicksburg, July 5, 1863. Maj. Gen. J. B. MCPHERSON,           Commanding Seventeen...

HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE TENN., Vicksburg, Miss., July 8 , 1863 . Maj. Gen. J. B. MCPHERSON, Comdg. Seventeenth Army Corps: GENERAL: There a...

VICKSBURG, MISS., July 8, 1863. Maj. Gen. J. B. MCPHERSON, Comdg. Seventeenth Army Corps: GENERAL: There apparently being some misunderst...

Clear and cool; subsequently cloudy. The Washington Chronicle of the 12th, received yesterday, indicates that Washington or Baltimore, or ...