Major-Gen. Breckinridge, it is said, is to command in Southwestern Virginia near the Kentucky line, relieving Major-Gen. Sam Jones. Yes...

THE LANDING AND MARCH. The morning of the 13th was dark and rainy, and we made preparations to land. It always rains where we go; first...

A beautiful Sabbath morning, not a ripple disturbs the smooth surface of the sound. Religious services this morning in the saloon; in the a...

THE START FOR NEWBERN. This morning weighed anchor and our fleet, comprising upwards of 50 sail, steamed up the Pamlico sound for Newbe...

Newbern, N. C , Dec. 22d, 1863. On the morning of Nov. 23d, I was duly installed as Teacher in a log school-house, in Camp Kimball, jus...

Newbern , November 23d, 1863. Mr. James gave me a School which Miss Canedy was teaching, consisting of adults and a few children who co...

CITY POINT, VA., March 28 , 1865 . (Received 2 . 10 p.m.) Hon. E. M. STANTON: I await the arrival of General McCallum until his a...

Beaufort, N.C.   May 5, 1865 My dear Sir, How would it do to issue an order forbidding the calling of the freedmen, “contrabands”, an...

We have a dispatch from Mississippi, stating that on Thursday last Grant demanded the surrender of Vicksburg in three days. He was answered...

Reliable information of hard fighting at Vicksburg; but still, so far as we know, the garrison of the invested city has repulsed every assa...

From the Northern papers we learn that the defeat at Charleston is called by the enemy a  Reconnoissance . This causes us much merriment he...

Gen. Hill is moving toward Newbern, N. C, and may attack the enemy there. The weather continues dreadful — sleeting; and movements o...

Gen. French writes that the enemy at Suffolk and Newbern amounted to 45,000; and this force now threatens Weldon and Wilmington, and we hav...

Newbern, N. C , October 22d, 1863. I want to tell you the great need of books in our Sabbath Schools; we have exhausted our supply, an...

Newbern, N. C, July 27th, 1863. It is not yet a week since Mr. Doolittle opened the school of which Miss Ropes and myself have charge...

Office Of Superintendent Of Blacks, Newbern, N. C. , June 6th, 1863. Respecting Teachers, I am ready to assure you, from General Fost...

Pleasant weather. The Eleventh Iowa was sent out with a foraging train to get corn and fodder for the mules and horses of our brigade. They...

Reveille sounded at 1 a. m. At 3 o'clock with the Fifteenth Corps in front, we took up the line of march and moved forward twenty-one m...

Yesterday passed as usual. We attended Mr. Peterkin's prayer-meeting before breakfast, which we generally do, and which was very intere...

Just taken leave of J. J., who has gone to Halifax, where the Bishop resides. It seems so strange that she does not want to go to the count...