I introduce the following letter to a friend, as sufficiently explicit as to the occurrences since the last date: CHAIN BRIDGE, VA., Sept....

I am alone to-night, and tired enough to lie and sleep for twenty-four hours, did not the scenes around call up associations which banish re...

The camp at New Berne was aroused by the long-roll, by an attack at the bridge, where the pickets are posted. All our guard were called out....

OUR FIRST MARCH. This morning, at four o'clock, we thought the Old Nick was to pay, but soon found it was only the long roll. It would...

About midnight, an officer of some sort rode into camp with some word that was the means of our being routed out by the "Long Roll,...

An alarm to-night; "long roll" beaten; the men formed in line; no ammunition; considerable confusion; three rounds issued to the ...