The Colonel left for Ohio to-day, to be gone two weeks. I came from the quarters of Brigadier-General Schleich a few minutes ago. He is a ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 1850. MY DEAR SIR,— . . . You have seen how Websterism overrides everything in Boston. A large portion of the voters...

Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS said, as a friend to the army, he rejoiced at the evidence now afforded of a disposition in this House to deal justly, t...

Bright and frosty. All quiet below. Another day, and if it remains quiet, we may know that Lincoln will be re-elected. It is said news c...

SANTIAGO, Nov. 7, 1866. Dear Brother: We have nearly completed the circle without finding Juarez, who is about as far as ever, away up in ...

[ST. LOUIS, January 17, 1866] I get a great many commentaries on the past, and have no reason to object to the exalted examples with which...

The Arabia brings the news that Secretary Cobb has resigned. He goes then to join the Disunionists, who, in Georgia, object to joint, but ar...

The President has certainly conferred on Bragg the position once (1862) occupied by Lee, as the following official announcement, in all the ...

I AM INTERVIEWED. Passing along Pollock, above Middle street, today, I was accosted by a man who was sitting on the veranda of his hous...

It is now move ing [ sic ]—a beautiful Sabbath morning. The dews have gone to heaven and the stars have gone to God; the sky is all inlaid ...

Hoisted anchor and steamed to within a short distance of the light house, and in full view of the island. Here we again dropped anchor and ...

MR. EDITOR — I regret that the former account I was sent of your labors of our excellent brothers Thompson and Phelps, was so meager a stat...

We have recently journeyed through a portion of this free state, and it is not all imagination in us, that sees, in its bold scenery, — its...

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...

. . . Read Kant on state rights. According to him, wars of conquest are allowable only in a state of nature, not in a state of peace (which...

79th Regiment, Near Antietam Creek, Sept. 28th, 1862. My dear Horace: Here we are, still resting at the mouth of this muddy littl...

This morning we find eighteen inches of snow on the ground. Wading through the deep snow reminds me of a picture that I have often seen, Na...

I rejoined General Johnston at 9 A.M., and was received into his mess. Major Eustis and Lieutenant Washington, officers of his Staff, are t...