HDQRS. TWELFTH CORPS, ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND,           Tullahoma, Tenn., December 30, 1863. Maj. Gen. GEORGE G. MEADE,           Commandin...

21 Arlington Street, 22 August, 1863. Many thanks for your letter of the 4th August. I grieve with you for the loss of good young men ...

We landed in New York on Sunday evening [July 12], the day before the great draft riots there broke out. When the pilot came on board, the ...

You have been called to a fearful ordeal, but one I trust necessary for the future stability of our government and civilization, — the resu...

I am embarrassed at the very outset. For I recollect that I am an abolitionist; and I recollect that in the public esteem he who is an abol...

This last calamity to the house and family of Mrs. Gibbons (the sacking of her home by the recent riot) presents a fit opportunity for her...

Headquarters Del. Dept. Wilmington, Del. , July 20th, 1863. My dear Mother: You have heard before now, I suppose, that I was in New...

Longview, Enfield, Conn., July 14th, 1863. My own dear Son: I received your last letter on Saturday, and rejoice in your health, an...

NEW YORK, July 13 , 1863 .   (Received 12 . 10 p.m.) SIR: What is represented as a serious riot is now taking place on Third avenu...

NEW YORK, July 13 , 1863 .   (Received 2 . 30 p.m.) SIR: The riot has assumed serious proportions, and is entirely beyond the contr...

NEW YORK, July 13 , 1863 — 9 . 30 p.m. (Received 11 . 45 p.m.) SIR: The situation is not improved since dark. The programme is div...

NEW YORK, July 14 , 1863 .   (Received 4 . 25 p.m.) Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: SIR: Your dispatch received. Demonstr...

WAR DEPARTMENT,           Washington, July 14 , 1863 — 6 . 20 p.m. Maj. E. S. SANFORD, New York: SIR: The Government will be ab...

We have intelligence to-day, derived from a New York paper of the 18th inst., that the “insurrection” in New York had subsided, under the m...

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...

Have not been well for the last two days, and am still indisposed, but cannot omit duties. The weather is oppressively warm. Friends think ...

It is represented that the mob in New York is about subdued. Why it was permitted to continue so long and commit such excess has not been e...

We have accounts of mobs, riots, and disturbances in New York and other places in consequence of the Conscription Act. Our information is v...

The hotel this morning was occupied by military, or rather by creatures in uniform. One of the sentries stopped me; and on my remonstrating...

At breakfast this morning two Irish waiters, seeing I was a Britisher, came up to me one after the other, and whispered at intervals in hoa...