Clear and very cold; can't find a thermometer in the city. The President did sign the bill creating a general-in-chief, and depriving ...

Clear and dry; pleasant temperature. I learn that Petersburg has not been much injured by the enemy's batteries, and that Gen. Lee has...

A cool day, sunshine and showers. To-day Congress assembled, and the President's message was delivered, although he buried his younges...

ORANGE COURT-HOUSE, May 4, 1864. General BRAXTON BRAGG: Reports from our lookouts seem to indicate that the enemy is in motion. The presen...

Bright, beautiful, and warmer; but fire in the morning. The following dispatch from Gen. Lee was received by Gen. Bragg to-day and sent to...

HEADQUARTERS-CORPS OF CADETS,             July 4 , 1864 . GENERAL: In obedience to General Orders, No. --, headquarters Virginia Mili...

July 15, 1864. This is a glorious place. The current in the river is very swift, and it is the nicest stream to bathe in imaginable. I...

To-day we have a cold northwest storm of wind and rain, and we have our first fire in the parlor. The elections in Ohio and Pennsylvania...

Gen. Lee has retired to the south side of the Rappahannock again, while Meade remains in the intrenchments at Centreville. Gen. Imboden occ...

Rainy and raw. Scouting party went out to Cedar Creek, through the Gap and around the mountain and came back by Fawcett's Gap. Awful da...

It has got out that the President intends to dispense with the services of Mr. Myers, the Jew Quartermaster-General, and Mr. Miles, member ...

The drive from Hancock to Cumberland is a very mountainous forty-four miles — total distance from Hagerstown, sixty-six miles. We met with ...

A courier has brought in the intelligence that Averill's force is at Jordan's Furnace, between 20 and 30 miles from this, and advan...

An order from Imboden for the cadets to march to Buchanan. They started this morning. Mr. P. went at noon. A very cold day. SOURCE: ...

Went on the street to hear some news; found that a dispatch had been received, ordering a body of men to go on to Pattonsburg to burn down ...

After dark last night Mr. P. returned, and I find that I was greatly mistaken in supposing that the hurrying out of the Rockbridge forces h...

I feel angry when I have been tortured to no purpose, as now. This evening the Cadets and Home Guard are back again without anything happen...

SEPTEMBER 3, 1863 – 12 . 15 p.m. Colonel LOWELL, Commanding, &c. Centreville: Colonel Devin, commanding the cavalry brigade s...

But little like the day of sacred rest. Last night, after dark, and just after I had heard that 14,000 of the enemy were advancing, and the...

A lovely day, and in contrast to the feelings of the whole population. Last night I became uneasy at Mr. P.'s not coming home from the ...