A clear day. The enemy in great force around Leesburg. We can see the church steeples of that place. Skirmishing kept up all day. In the eve...

Clear and dry. It is believed that a battery sent down opposite to Harrison's Bar in the James River sank two of the enemy's trans...

Brigade commenced pulling out before daylight. 1st Brigade in rear. Passed through Leesburg about 3 P. M. Once a very wealthy little town a...

We have nothing additional from Vicksburg or from the Potomac, but there is a rumor of fighting near Leesburg. The first installment of...

Distant firing heard towards Leesburg and up the Potomac. A warm fine day. P. M. Received orders to be ready to march immediately; t...

Headquarters First Division, Ninth Corps, Near Washington , June 26, 1865. Why shouldn't I send you a few lines this rainy aftern...

Marched hard all night and daylight found us nearly through the gap; have marched hard — fairly raced —all day; brought up on the east side...

Oh, such a horrid night's rest! Being near the mountains it was cold with a heavy dew, and I had nothing but a rubber poncho for cover,...

Arrived at the crossroads about dark and camped for the night. Lieut. Merritt Barber and I went on a scout for some supper, but couldn...

We went over to Seward's to-night and found Chandler and Wade there. They had been talking to Seward to get up a battle, saying that on...

A dispatch from Gov. Harris gives some additional particulars of the battle near Murfreesborough, Tenn. He says the enemy was driven back s...

This has been a heavy day. Last night Col. Baker was killed at Leesburg at the head of his Brigade. McClellan and the President talked sadl...

Camp Near Seneca , October 30, 1861. We still keep the camping-ground in which we were when I last wrote, and we are enjoying the brigh...

Camp Near Conrad's Ferry , October 24, 1861, Thursday Morning. The violation of every rule and maxim of military law, the exactio...

Bannister at Breakfast. Went to Department, and from Department with Deputation of Friends from Mt. Pleasant, O., and Wilmington, Del., to ...

camp Near Darnestown , August 31, 1861. If you have a good map, you can see our present position just on Seneca Creek, two miles from D...

The President is highly delighted at the result of the battle of Leesburg; and yet some of the red-tape West Point gentry are indignant at ...

We made a narrow escape; at least, we have a respite. If the Yankee army had advanced with its 200,000 men, they would not have encountered...

We have news of a victory at Leesburg. It appears that the head of one of the enemy's columns, 8000 strong, attempted a passage of the ...

A lady, just from Washington, after striving in vain to procure an interview with the Secretary of War, left with me the programme of the e...