I went out from M. to Mr. ———, five miles from town. I went from there to Gen'l Morgan's Headquarters, leaving the Knox county filly...

Camp near Orange Court House, Va., January 16, 1864. The army is filling up with conscripts, absentees and others, and if we get also the ...

 Bright and cool. Gen. Early is still falling back; on Saturday he was at Port Republic, but he will soon be reinforced, and may turn the ...

Bright and pleasant. We have rumors of heavy fighting yesterday near Staunton, but no authentic accounts. A dispatch from Gen. R. Taylor...

Bright and pleasant. The firing was from our gun-boats and two batteries, on Gen. Butler's canal to turn the channel of the river. O...

Bright and pleasant—the weather. Gen. Hood telegraphs that his army is so much mortified at the feeble resistance it made to Sherman, that...

Bright and dry. The demonstration of the enemy yesterday, on both sides of the river, was merely reconnoissances. Our pickets were driven ...

Clear and cool; rained in the night. Gen. J. H. Morgan is dead,—surprised and killed in Tennessee,—and his staff captured. Gen. Hood tel...

Slight showers, and warm. Gen. J. H. Morgan was betrayed by a woman, a Mrs. Williamson, who was entertaining him. Custis made an estimat...

Bright and hot. At 4 P.M. a cloud rising. Fear my wife, and daughter Fannie, and Custis (who has a days' furlough), who went this mornin...

Hot and dry. I hope there will be a rain-cloud this evening. No war news, except a letter from Gen. Lee, indicating that Gen. Morgan is pr...

Hot and dry. A dispatch from Gen. Lee (will be published on Monday) says Gen. Beauregard reports the number of prisoners taken from Wilson...

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

Clear and cool; warm late in the day. It is rumored now that the enemy got to Westtown yesterday, some ten miles below the point on this s...

Clear and pleasant, after a slight shower in the morning. The raid is considered at an end, and it has ended disastrously for the invaders...

The offices are closed, to-day, in honor of Washington's birth-day. But it is a fast day; meal selling for $40 per bushel. Money will no...

Martinsburg , July 17 (Sunday), 1864. Dearest : — A week ago, about this time, we were enjoying our pleasant ride like young lovers on ...

From the Subscriber, living in Fayette county, Ky., on the night of the 14th of October, a negro boy named JOHN KIDD. He was taken up and ...

From three miles west of Millboro to one mile beyond Goshen; about thirteen to fourteen miles. Rained last night. Our march today impeded by...

Gen. J. E. Johnston dispatches from the West that the meat is so indifferent, the soldiers must have an additional quantity of rice. ...