SHERWOOD FOREST, VA., April 18, 1861. By my last letter from the President the convention was sitting with closed doors. The vote was prob...

Clear and cool. Gen. Bragg sent to the Secretary of War to-day a copy of a letter from him to the President, yesterday, proposing to send ...

Clouds and sunshine; cooler. Nothing additional from the West. Several thousand Georgia mounted troops have arrived during the last 24 hou...

Yesterday the Senate passed the following bill, it having previously passed the House: “ A Bill to be entitled An Act to put an end to t...

No. 26. Joint reports of Maj. D. R. Jones, Assistant Adjutant-General, C. S. Army; and Col. Charles Allston, jr., Commander H. T. Harts...

6.] FORT SUMTER, S.C. , April 13 , 1861 — 20 min. past 2 o'clock. GENERAL: I thank you for your kindness in having sent your ai...

No. 21. Reports of Capt. G. B. Cuthbert, Palmetto Guard, South Carolina Infantry. PALMETTO GUARD ENCAMPMENT, Morris Island, April...

CHARLESTON, April 6 , 1861 . L. P. WALKER: The following telegraph I have just received from Washington: Positively determined n...

To-day we are all down again. Bragg has retreated from Murfreesborough. It is said he saved his prisoners, captured cannon, etc., but it is...

Not a word from the Rappahannock. But there soon will be. Official dispatches from Gen. Bragg confirm the achievement of Col. Morgan, ac...

The reveille of the Zouaves, note for note the same as that which, in the Crimea, so often woke up poor fellows who slept the long sleep er...

Down to our yacht, the Diana, which is to be ready this afternoon, and saw her cleared out a little — a broad-beamed, flat-floored schooner...