Bright and clear, warm and pleasant. How well do I remember two short years ago today when we took a sleigh ride and made a regular family v...

After cooking three days' rations, we struck tents and loaded our wagons. The wagons were sent to Booneville, twelve miles from Jacinto,...

A foraging party went out this morning. One of our boys killed five hogs and thirteen chickens, and found two government wagons and two barr...

Our battalion moved about nine miles west and went into camps one-half mile south-west of Burnsville, still in Tishamingo County, on the Mem...

No. 257. Report of Col. Alfred A. Russell, Fourth Alabama Cavalry, of operations October 26, 1864-January 17, 1865. HEADQUARTERS FOURTH ALAB...

No. 256. Report of Brig. Gen. Philip D. Roddey, C. S. Army, commanding District of North Alabama, of operations December 1-15, 1864. HEADQ...

Last night some guerrillas made a demonstration on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, burning a bridge between Chewalla, Tenn., and Corint...

The work of evacuating the Mobile and Ohio Railroad is now going on. Having been ordered to move again with camp and garrison equipage, we t...

It is reported in camp that we are soon to go to Memphis for duty. Several cases of smallpox have broken out in the camp of the Sixteenth I...

We left our bivouac at 6 a. m. and entered the town of Moscow at 7 and were then ordered to move to Lafayette, Tennessee, on the Memphis ...

CAIRO, May 8. No engagement had occurred at Corinth up to yesterday noon.   The army was still gradually advancing, and our forces were...

PITTSBURG, May 3 – 9 P. M. Hon. E. M. Stanton:– Gen. Paine’s division made a reconnoissance to Farmington to-day; found about 4,500 of ...

(From the Memphis Avalanche, Feb. 26.) We are gratified to find that the opinions expressed by us with regard to our proper line of de...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 19. – Accounts from every camp in the State represent the joy of our troops over the Donelson victory unbounded. – At Pilot ...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 19. – A Union scout who has been operating up the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers reached here this morning and reports one ...

As this place is probably destined to become the theater of great events, we lay before our readers all the information as regards its situa...

FROM GEN. GRANT’S ADANCE COLUMN. Latest from Island No. 10, Saturday Night. MORTAR FIRING STILL IN PROGRESS. Prof. Steiner’s Balloon Reco...

. . . WILL. B. PICKERING, who by the way, is Private Secretary of Gen. MITCHELL, we are permitted to extract the following: “Gen. Mitchell’s...

Huntsville, Alabama, the town just occupied by Gen. Mitchell is the capital of Madison county, Ala. Being 150 miles northeast of Tuscaloosa,...