Struck out tents early this morning and marched to Colliersville, a distance of seven miles from Lafayette and twenty-four from Memphis. As ...

SCENES AMONG SICK.—RAIDERS CONVICTED. Strong these men had been; In vast army camps had duty done; Had useful service in field and for...

Warm and rainy this morning. We struck out tents, fell in about daylight and marched through to Holly Springs, where we saw the effects of t...

Cloudy, cold, and dismal. We have no news except from the North, whence we learn Lieut. Beall, one of our Canada raiders, has been hung; tha...

Raining and cold. This morning there was another arrival of our prisoners on parol, and not yet exchanged. Many thousands have arrived this ...

Bright and frosty. From a published correspondence between Gens. Hampton and Sherman, on the subject of retaliatory executions, it is mentio...

We have got the smallpox in prison, and from six to twelve are taken out dead daily. We can buy from prisoners rats, 25 cents each, killed a...

I heard to-day that my brother Morris was a prisoner at Fort Delaware, Pa. I asked for a parole to-day to go and see my parents in New York,...

General James Watson Webb called on me. He has been laid up by the gout at his son-in-law's, Major Benton's, house. He came home fro...

No. 225. Report of Lieut. H. Milo Torrence, One hundred and fifteenth Ohio Infantry, Assistant Inspector Railroad Defenses, of operations De...

[JULY 3, 1863.] Admiral PORTER: I have given the rebels a few hours to consider the proposition of surrendering; all to be paroled here, th...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE,           Near Vicksburg, July 4, 1863. Maj. Gen. N. P. BANKS, Comdg. Department of the Gulf: G...

VICKSBURG, July 6, 1863. DEAR FATHER, — Vicksburg has at last surrendered after a siege of over forty days. The surrender took place on th...

HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE TENN., Vicksburg, Miss., July 8 , 1863 . Maj. Gen. J. B. MCPHERSON, Comdg. Seventeenth Army Corps: GENERAL: There a...

VICKSBURG, MISS., July 8, 1863. Maj. Gen. J. B. MCPHERSON, Comdg. Seventeenth Army Corps: GENERAL: There apparently being some misunderst...

WAR DEPARTMENT,           Washington, July 8, 1863—6.45 p.m. Major-General GRANT, Vicksburg, Miss.: I fear your paroling the garrison at V...

WAR DEPARTMENT,           Washington, July 10, 1863—10 a.m. Major-General GRANT, Vicksburg, Miss.: On a full examination of the question, ...

VICKSBURG, MISS., July 11, 1863.           Maj. Gen. WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, Comdg. Expedition: DEAR GENERAL: Dispatches just received from Gen...

[July 1, 1863.] One of the men who gave himself up is confined here here   is about three miles from here his wife is sick expected to di...

The Secretary of War has, it is stated issued an order stopping the release or parole of prisoners taken at Fort Donelson.   It is known tha...