ATLANTA, July 26, 1864. Col. JOHN B. SALE: Leave to-morrow to confer with Major-General Maury, in Montgomery, and urge matters beyond. Lie...

Cloudy and cold. We have no authentic war news, but are on the tip-toe of expectation. The city is in some commotion on a rumor that the n...

The beautiful, pleasant weather continues. It is said Congress passed, last night, in secret session, the bill allowing increased compen...

Cedar Bluff, Ala., October 27, 1864. Waiting here for the 17th Army Corps to get across the Coosa. It is a beautiful little river, not ...

July 12, 1864. We lay quietly in the shade all day the 11th, save those who had ambition enough to go fishing, berrying or swimming. Th...

May 23, 1864. Weather is getting very hot. We have made 21 miles today, and the distance, heat and dust have made it by far the hardest...

11 p. m., 29th. — There is talk among the officers that Buell with 60,000 men is en route for Atlanta, Ga., intending to occupy that city, ...

Headquarters 1st Brigade Cavalry Division, Camp near Boonville, Miss., June 6, 1862. I am leading an inglorious life now, nothing to ...

A dispatch from Montgomery, Ala., states that the enemy have penetrated as far as Enterprise, Miss., where we had a small body of troops, c...

Quite cold during the night, find myself almost too lame to walk when I get up foot swelled badly The co is paid at 10.30 A. M. after which...

WASHINGTON, April 3 , 1861 . To the SECRETARY OF WAR: Under the strongest convictions on some military questions upon which great p...

The heat to-day was so great, that I felt a return of my old Indian experiences, and was unable to go, as I intended, to hear a very eminen...

WAR DEPARTMENT, February 23 , 1861 .   Maj. ROBERT ANDERSON, First Artillery, Commanding Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, S.C.: SIR...

Arrived at Montgomery, the capital of Alabama, at daylight, and left it by another railroad at 5.30 A.M. All State capitals appear to r...

I forgot to say that yesterday before dinner I drove out with some gentlemen and the ladies of the family of Mr. George N. Sanders, once Un...

Very warm, and no cold water, unless one went to the river. The hotel baths were not promising. This hotel is worse than the Mills House or...

In the morning I took a drive about the city, which is loosely built in detached houses over a very pretty undulating country covered with ...

I bade good-by to Mr.Green, who with several of his friends came down to see me off, at the terminus or “depot” of the Central Railway, on ...

We are now quite comfortably fixed, in what was once my mother's chamber, and most unexpectedly we have a carpet. The other day, while ...

montgomery , April 26. The people here are all in fine spirits, and the streets are so lively and every one looks so happy, that you ca...