NEAR VICKSBURG, MISS., June 11, 1863. Brig. Gen. E. S. DENNIS           Commanding District of Northeastern Louisiana: In view of present d...

NEAR VICKSBURG, Miss., June 15, 1863. Brig. Gen. E. S. DENNIS, Comdg. Dist. Northeast Louisiana: My letter to you was not intended as an ...

SPRINGFIELD, ILL., September 5, 1863. Hon. E. M. STANTON,           Secretary of War: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your...

SPRINGFIELD, ILL., June 27, 1863. Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK,          General-in-Chief: GENERAL: On the 4th instant I personally delivered ...

RochESTER , August 1st, 1863. MAJOR GEORGE L. STEARNS: My Dear Sir, Having declined to attend the meeting to promote enlistments, app...

From the army on the Potomac we have a dispatch from Lee, saying there have been several cavalry engagements during the last week, wherein ...

To-day I saw the memorandum of Mr. Ould, of the conversation held with Mr. Vallandigham, for file in the archives. He says if we can only h...

Headquarters Second Brigade, Second Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, Steamer “Sunny South,” January 20, 1863. My table is covered w...

We landed at Milliken's Bend early this morning and went into camp on a large plantation about a mile from the levee of the river. ...

We struck our tents and at 3 o'clock in a heavy rain embarked on board the “Platte Valley.” We had all the supplies loaded by dark and ...

MILLIKEN'S BEND, May 2, 1863. As I wrote you on Wednesday , I went up Yazoo with two ironclad boats, four or five mosquitoes, or sm...

CAMP BEFORE VICKSBURG, March 13, 1863. . . . The waters are still rising and Kilby Smith's Brigade is roosting on the levee with ...

Greyhound Commander: Confederate General John G. Walker's History of the Civil War West of the Mississippi Edited By Richard L...

ON BOARD Forest Queen, MILLIKEN'S BEND, January 4, 1863. Well, we have been to Vicksburg and it was too much for us, and we have ...