Bright and beautiful morning. All quiet below. Mr. McRae has been permitted by Gen. Butler to return again to the city to await his exchan...

NEW ORLEANS, April 7, 1860. MY DEAR MAJOR: I have just received the enclosed letter from Captain G. W. Smith, 1 which speaks for itself. ...

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...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,       New Orleans, May 16 , 1862 . Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: SIR: Since my dispa...

WAR DEPARTMENT,           Richmond, February 8 , 1862 . General A. SIDNEY JOHNSTON, Bowling Green: SIR: The condition of your dep...

We have nothing additional up to three p.m. to-day; bat there is an untraceable rumor on the street of some undefinable disaster somewhere,...

The President rides out with some of the female members of his family every afternoon, his aids no longer accompanying him. In this he evin...

January 4, 1863. There I quit, for we received orders to get ready at once to march to Jackson, Tenn. The colonel ordered me to take ch...

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

If it be not a Yankee electioneering trick to operate at the election in New York, on the fourth of November, the Northern correspondence w...

Of course I have not the time and space to give an account of the passing of the forts as it was described in the papers at that time and a...

Early this morning I was at the depot. The superintendent suggested that I should send some one to Weldon in search of the trunk. He proffe...

Vicksburg has triumphantly withstood the shelling of the enemy's fleet of gun-boats. This proves that New Orleans might have been succe...

Gen. Lovell, it is said, will be tried by a court-martial. The same has been said of Generals Magruder and Huger. But I doubt it. SO...

The people of Louisiana are protesting strongly against permitting Gen. Lovell to remain in command in that State, since the fall of New Or...

The rumor of yesterday originated in the assertion of a Yankee paper that New Orleans would be taken without firing a gun. Some of our peo...

Yesterday was such a lucky day for my housekeeping in our hired house. Oh, ye kind Columbia folk! Mrs. Alex Taylor, n é e Hayne, sent me a ...

Isabella went with me to the bulletin-board. Mrs. D. (with the white linen as usual pasted on her chin) asked me to read aloud what was the...

The gentlemen had their friend, General Lovell, to spend last night with them. I was sorry not to be able to see more of him, as I was too ...

There is an outcry against the appointment of two major-generals, recommended, perhaps, by Mr. Benjamin, Gustavus W. Smith and Gen. Lovell,...