Slightly overcast, but calm and pleasant. I am better, after the worst attack for twenty years. The only medicine I took was blue mass—ten g...

On the 24th of May we cross the long bridge spanning the Potomac and enter Washington City and pass up Pennsylvania Avenue, and by the White...

We have had a week of comparative quiet since my last entry. The enemy have ceased shelling, and it is believed that they have abandoned the...

Bright and pleasant. An order has been given to impress  all  the supplies (wheat and meat) in the State, and Gen. Kemper has been instruc...

Raleigh, April 18, 1865. Sherman has gone out again to see Johnston. Johnston asked for another day in order to see Davis and get his perm...

Hazy, misty weather. Gen. Lovell (who lost New Orleans) has applied for a command in the West, and Gen. Johnston approves it strongly. He d...

Digging a mine under Fort Hill, with a cotton car as protection from the enemy's bullets. To-day our regiment was at the front. The...

CULPEPER COURT-HOUSE, VA.,                         April 9 , 1864 . Maj. Gen. G. G. MEADE, Commanding Army of the Potomac: For i...

We move at last. We left camp as the sun rose, reaching our old quarters in front of the rebel Fort Hill in the afternoon. Glad we are to g...

Up this morning at three o'clock, with orders for three days' rations in our haversacks and five days' in the wagons—also to be ...

t was three o'clock this morning before we camped. A tiresome tramp we have had, and after halting, but a few minutes elapsed before we ...

We did not strike out on the war-path again till three P. M. to-day, having spent the time previous in taking a good rest. To-day we have no...

“The early bird catches the worm.” We tried the truth of that adage this morning, but failed to make the catch. A few graybacks were seen af...

Hundreds were skating on the ice in the basin this morning; but it thawed all day, and now looks like rain. Yesterday the President veto...

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

Cold and clear. Gen. Longstreet has preferred charges against Major-Gen. McLaws and another general of his command, and also asks to be rel...

[JANUARY 2, 1864 . ] COMMANDING GENERAL, THE CORPS, DIVISION, BRIGADE, AND REGIMENTAL COMMANDERS OF THE ARMY OF TENNESSEE: GENERAL...

HDQRS. GEORGIA RESERVES AND MIL. DIST. OF GEORGIA,       Macon, Ga., January 8 , 1865 . Hon. JAMES A. SEDDON, Secretary of War, Richm...

HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES,                        Washington, D.C. , April 21 , 1865 . Maj. Gen. W. T. SHERMAN, Comma...

No war news to-day. But a letter, an impassioned one, from Gov. Vance, complains of outrages perpetrated by detached bodies of Confederate ...