ON THE RAPIDAN,           MAY 20TH, 1863. MY PRECIOUS WIFE: I am at last safely encamped with the Fourth Texas Regiment in a beautiful grov...

Usher relates to me to-day some damaging stories concerning the Treasury. I cannot but think them exaggerations. I know, from some reliable...

QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL'S OFFICE, April 14 , 1865 — Midnight.   General AUGUR: The Secretary directs that the troops turn out; th...

. . . a commission of gentlemen – among the Judge Pierpont, of New York and Major General Dix – had an interview on Saturday last, at the P...

WASHINGTON, April 22. The Select Committee, to whom was referred the question of the loyalty of Senator Stark, of Oregon, reported to-day th...

A state prisoner Jesse D. Horton, From near Hagerstown, Md., was shot by a sentry yesterday at the Old Capitol prison and died in a few hour...