Clear and cool. It is now said Mr. Seddon's resignation has not yet been accepted, and that his friends are urging the President to pers...

FALL OF FORT SUMTER. The ball has opened; crowds of eager citizens may be seen gathered together at the corners of the streets excitedly d...

To the Governor of the State of Virginia: DEAR SIR, SHERWOOD FOREST, January 31, 1861. I received your communication notifying me of...

SENATE CHAMBER, December 16, 1859. DEAR TYLER: The excitement seems to abate slightly in Congress, but it is on the rise in nearly every S...

Fessenden has got out an advertisement for a new loan and an address to the people in its behalf. Am not certain that the latter is judiciou...

It is no doubt true that the Rebels have left. I called on General Halleck on a matter of business, and while there, about 11, he had a tel...

Charleston, Camp Elk , July 2, 1864. Dearest : — Back again to this point last night. Camped opposite the lower end of Camp White on t...

A bright windy day, and not cold. The President has a reception to-day, and the City Councils have voted the hospitalities of the city to B...

On Saturday, resolutions were unanimously adopted by the Senate complimenting Gen. Lee. This is his opportunity, if he be ambitious,—and wh...

Bright and cold. A resolution passed Congress, calling on the President to report the number of men of conscript age removed from the Quart...

Still nothing additional from Lee's or Bragg's army; but from abroad we learn that the British Government has prevented the rams bu...

Nothing new from Lee's army — only that his troops are eager for another battle, when they are resolved to gain the day. There will pro...

The Department Guard (my son with them) were marched last night back to the city, and out to Meadow Bridge, on the Chickahominy, some sixte...

Sunday Afternoon . — There are two reports of important events current in the streets: first, that Lee's army has taken and destroyed H...

3 O'clock P.m . — Three proclamations have just been issued! One (a joint one) from the President and the Governor, calling upon everyb...

The excitement has subsided. No doubt small detachments of the enemy were seen at the places indicated, and Gen. Elzey (who some say had be...

This morning early a few hundred women and boys met as by concert in the Capitol Square, saying they were hungry, and must have food. The n...

All is quiet (before the storm) on the Rappahannock, Gen. Jackson's corps being some twenty miles lower down the river than Longstreet...

Camp South Of Raleigh, Virginia , April 22, 1862. Dear Uncle : — The ugly chap on the enclosed bill is Governor Letcher of Virginia. He...

camp Near Winchester , March 15, 1862. Of all the platitudes and jingles that ever amused and deluded a chivalrous people, the asserti...