Nothing of interest doing here. The news is not encouraging. Grant has burned Jackson and evacuated the place, falling back toward Vicksburg...

WASHINGTON, March 16, 1861. Every day affords proof of the absence of any settled policy or harmonious concert of action in the administra...

[ST. LOUIS, MO.] My visit South was in every sense agreeable. My old friends in Alexandria did all they could to make us welcome, and I wa...

Speech of Jefferson Davis before the State Democratic Convention held in Jackson Mississippi January 3, 1844, for the purpose of sending del...

ST. LOUIS, Sunday, Dec. 30, 1866. Dear Brother: I came up from New Orleans right through the country that I had been the means of raiding ...

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 23, 1861. DEAR MR. BOYD: I fear from our experience here the cadets did not have a good time of it last night. It rained...

ALEXANDRIA, Jan. 16, 1861. DEAR GENERAL: It was my purpose to wait patiently for the development of events, with my mind firmly resolved t...

SEMINARY, Jan. 20, 1861. Here is another Sunday. I have written you often enough of late to keep you in a perfect state of uneasiness, but...

ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 23, 1860. We are having a cold raw day and I avail myself of it to do a good deal of indoor work. I was out for some hour...

ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 26, 1860.  . . . I commenced writing a letter last night to Minnie, but a friend sent us out a newspaper of New Orleans, ...

ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 29, 1860.  . . . This is a holiday, thanksgiving and prayer, but holidays and Sundays are my worst days, as then the cade...

SEMINARY, June 28, 1860. . . . Last week I dismissed summarily two cadets of good families and large connexions. One has appealed to the B...

Hot and dry, and the famine continues. The Secretary of War intimated on Saturday that if the clerks of the bureaus would raise a fund and...

The week has been one of interesting incidents, incessant occupation. Admiral Farragut came a week since and called on me. After half an hou...

Cloudy——rained in the afternoon. This is the anniversary of the first gun of the war, fired at Fort Sumter. It is still said and believe...

[Pensacola, Florida, March 11, 1861.] My dear Wife: We left New Orleans on Friday. Saturday night at 12 o'clock we reached here, after...

Mr. Lincoln as a very effective way sometimes of dealing with men who trouble him with questions.  Some body asked him how many men the reb...

GENERAL ORDERS No. 24.} HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,              New Orleans, May 10 , 1862 . Acting Brig. Gen. George F. Shepley...

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

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 25.} HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF               New Orleans, May 9 , 1862 . The deplorable state of destitutio...