BRISTOL, November 11 , 1861. Hon. J. P. BENJAMIN,  Secretary of War: I have just returned from the burned bridge. We have at the next bri...

BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS,           Jamestown, Tenn., Nov . 22, 1861. General S. Cooper,           Adjutant and Inspector-General, Richmond: S...

I hired a horse at a livery stable, and rode out to Arlington Heights, at the other side of the Potomac, where the Federal army is encampe...

When I awoke this morning and, gazing out of my little window on the regiments parading on the level below me, after an arduous struggle to...

If it was any consolation to me that the very noisy and very turbulent warriors of last night were exceedingly sick, dejected, and crestfal...

Started again by stage for Munroe at 4.30 A.M. My companions were, the Mississippi planter, a mad dentist from New Orleans (called, by cour...

At early dawn the steamer went its way through a broad bay of snags, bordered with drift-wood, and with steam-trumpet and calliope announce...

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 ...

Up at dawn. Crossed by ferry to Portsmouth, and arrived at railway station, which was at no place in particular, in a street down which the...

Dined with the Southern Commissioners and a small party at Gautier's, a French restaurateur in Pennsylvania Avenue. The gentlemen prese...