HARRISON’S LANDING, 4th August, 1862. DEAR PET: I thank you for your kind, long letter. You extend me hope.   You suggest withdrawing m...

I think things are rapidly hurrying to a crisis of one kind or another, and it depends now not in the ability of those who have proved defi...

General Dix came to see me in relation to the blockade of Norfolk. Says Admiral Lee is extremely rigid, allows no traffic; that the people ...