We are steaming up the river in search of the enemy, and have just passed the place where he lay-to last night; so that we are now in full c...

We have just had some sport. Five negroes hailed us, and on being asked if they wished to come aboard, answered "yes" with every d...

We stopped at Natchez for nearly an hour, and in that short space of time nearly every officer and man got decently drunk. Some of our crew ...

Last night at ten o'clock we got under way for Port Hudson, La., and the motion of the boat lulled me to sleep in a few moments. I have ...

VICKSBURG, MISS., July 11, 1863. Maj. Gen. N. P. BANKS, Comdg. Department of the Gulf: GENERAL: It is with pleasure I congratulate you up...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,       New Orleans, May 16 , 1862 . Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: SIR: Since my dispa...

A meeting of a portion of the citizens of Adams County was held at the court-house in Natchez on the 19th hist., pursuant to public notice ...

To the Citizens of Adams County. I have just learned that there has been industriously circulated a notice, anonymously signed “Many Ci...

Soldier's Retreat, near Natchez, Aug. 23d, 1823. Since my last letter, my dear Col. Brush, I have been a refugee from Natchez, wher...

Nothing but disasters to chronicle now. Natchez and Yazoo City, all gone the way of Vicksburg, involving a heavy loss of boats, guns, and o...

Land at Natchez at 8. a. m. boat boilers in dangerous condition. Enjineer & firemen run from their places last night for a while fearin...

Arrived at Natchez, and landed there. I went up on the hill. A very pretty town. When the boat left they lashed a little steam tug along si...

Had a good run during the night A. M. Passed Natchez but did not get to see any of the city except “Natchez under the hill.” boat stopping ...

Before noon the steamer hauled along-side a stationary hulk at Baton Rouge, which once “walked the waters” by the aid of machinery, but whi...

I nearly slept round the clock after yesterday's exertions. Mr Douglas and I crossed the father of rivers and landed on the Mississippi...

The officers and soldiers, about thirty in number, who came down the Wachita in my company, determined to proceed to Natchez today, and a v...

Sarah Morgan. X. September 26th, Friday. My mark finds me at Linwood, though I had not the slightest idea that it would. Wonder where...

The two brigades of General Crocker's Division were at his request ordered back to Natchez today, because of a threatened attack of the...

It is very pleasant after four or five days of quite warm weather. I was on picket again, the first time for a week. Two brigades of Genera...

Headquarters First Brigade, Fourth Div., Seventeenth Army Corps, Department Of The Tennessee, “Camp Kilby” In The Field , January 9, ...