On the morning of Sunday, the 27th [sic], 1 we were off Charleston Bar, waiting the tide and a pilot. Admiral Dahlgren came down in a tug a...

Beaufort, S. C, Dec. 28, 1863. Alpheus Hardy , Treasurer: Dear Sir ,—Enclosed please find my draft for one hundred dollars, for the ...

MORRIS ISLAND. S. C. July 20 MY DEAR AMELIA: I have been in two fights, and am unhurt. I am about to go in another I believe to-night. ...

MORRIS ISLAND, S[outh] C[arolina] July 20th, 1863 MY DEAR FATHER AND MOTHER: Wednesday July 8th, our regiment left St. Helena I...

Nothing from the armies; but from Charleston it is ascertained that the enemy's batteries on Morris Island have some of the guns pointi...

My plan for reinforcing Fort Sumpter was this— From the outer edge of the bar to Sumpter through the swash channel it is four miles in a...

Our 5000 prisoners taken at the battle of Chickamauga have arrived in this city, and it is ascertained that more are on the way hither. Gen...

Batteries Wagner and Gregg and Fort Sumter have been evacuated! But this is not yet the capture of Charleston. Gen. Beauregard telegraphed ...

It is believed that Lee, with a large portion of his army, will proceed immediately to Tennessee against Rosecrans; and it is ascertained t...

The department companies and militia returned yesterday, through a heavy shower, from the wild-goose chase they were rushed into by Gen. El...

All the guns of Fort Sumter on the south face have been silenced by the land batteries of the enemy on Morris Island; and this account is t...

No news. It turns out that Gen. Taylor got only 500 prisoners at Donaldsonville, La., instead of 4000. A writer in the New York Tribune...

WAR DEPARTMENT,           Washington, July 14 , 1863 — 6 . 55 p.m. Hon. GEORGE OPDYKE, Mayor of New York: SIR: Five regiments a...

Complaints of slow progress at Charleston reach us. Censure is thrown upon Dahlgren which is not altogether just. His undue promotion requi...

Hon. E. S. Dargan, member of Congress, writes from Mobile that Mississippi is nearly subdued, and Alabama is almost exhausted, He says our ...

Letters were received to-day from Gens. Beauregard, Mercer, Whitney, and S. Jones. It appears that Beauregard has some 6000 men of all ...

Nothing from Lee or from Johnston, except that the latter has abandoned Jackson. From Bragg's army, I learn that a certain number of r...

We have no news this morning. But a rumor prevails, which cannot be traced to any authentic source, that Texas has put herself under the pr...

The Rebel accounts of things at Charleston speak of Sumter in ruins, its walls fallen in, and a threatened assault on the city. I do not ex...

We have the back mails this morning. The papers are filled with accounts of mobs, riots, burnings, and murders in New York. There have been...