The Confederate issue of ten millions sterling, in bonds payable in twenty years is not sufficient to meet the demands of Government; and t...

In the morning I took a drive about the city, which is loosely built in detached houses over a very pretty undulating country covered with ...

Early next morning [the 16th], soon after dawn, I crossed the Cape Fear River, on which Wilmington is situated, by a steam ferry-boat. On t...

The enemy are landing at Georgetown. With a little more audacity where could they not land? But we have given them such a scare, they are c...

To-day I saw a sword captured at Manassas. The man who brought the sword, in the early part of the fray, was taken prisoner by the Yankees....

Virginia Commissioners here. Mr. Staples and Mr. Edmonston came to see me. They say Virginia “has no grievance; she comes out on a point of...

Yesterday Mrs. Wigfall and I made a few visits. At the first house they wanted Mrs. Wigfall to settle a dispute. ''Was she, indeed,...

Governor Manning came to breakfast at our table. The others had breakfasted hours before. I looked at him in amazement, as he was in full d...

Wednesday – I have been mobbed by my own house servants. Some of them are at the plantation, some hired out at the Camden hotel, some are a...

JOHN LELAND MANNING Son of Rev. Edmund Taylor & Abigail (Leland) Manning, b. 1847, Apr. 12, at South Bend, Ind. He was with the 16th Iow...