March  14. Mr. Webster has not a favorable response from any Northern man of any influence. It is hard to believe that a man who has been ...

Bright and hot. At 4 P.M. a cloud rising. Fear my wife, and daughter Fannie, and Custis (who has a days' furlough), who went this mornin...

Cloudy, but no rain. The press dispatches last night assert that still another raiding party, besides Stoneman's, was dispersed or cap...

Hot and dry. The booming of cannon heard yesterday evening was from one of our batteries below Drewry's Bluff. The enemy answered from...

[July 1, 1863.] The mine was successfully Exploded today damaging the enemy's works considerably & killing & wounding a number...

Digging a mine under Fort Hill, with a cotton car as protection from the enemy's bullets. To-day our regiment was at the front. The...

Got a sightly position in front of the 18th Corps where all points of interest were in view. Lay till sunrise upon one of the leveled forts...

Relieved from picket and marched to Brigade Hdqrs. Camped in woods. Fixed a bower. A very hot day, yesterday too. Report that the portion o...

NEAR VICKSBURG; June 29, 1863 — 9 a.m., VIA MEMPHIS, July 1 — 10 p.m. (Received July 4 — 8 p.m.) Two separate parties of deser...

The rumor that Gen. Lee had resigned was simply a fabrication. His headquarters, a few days ago, were at Culpepper C. H., and may be soon t...

Dispatches from the West show that we still held Vicksburg at the last dates; and, moreover, Gen. Taylor (son of Zachary Taylor) had storme...

Had bad cold & did not rest any too well last night did not get up until called to breakfast. sky has the appearance of rain. I go to t...

I was on picket today, each man going out every other day, and the orders are very strict, no one being allowed to go through the lines unl...