Bright and beautiful, and pleasantly frosty. Gen. Sherman is advancing as usual in such dubiety as to distract Gen. Hardee, who knows not wh...

Bright, windy, cold, and disagreeable. There was nothing new at the department this morning. Nothing from below; nothing from South Caroli...

October 3d, 1862. We have moved camp three miles, and are now five miles above Harper's Ferry, on the banks of the Potomac. The days a...

Foggy, and raining. F. P. Blair is here again. If enemies are permitted to exist in the political edifice, there is danger of a crash. This ...

Clear, and very cold. We lost gun-boat Drewry yesterday in an unsuccessful attempt to destroy the enemy's pontoon bridge down the river....

Clear and very cold; can't find a thermometer in the city. The President did sign the bill creating a general-in-chief, and depriving ...

Bright and frosty. The "peace commissioners" remained Sunday night at Petersburg, and proceeded on their way yesterday morning. ...

was sloppy day And I hird today that peas was made between the North and South and I hird that our men sunk a vessel down on the Potomac las...

Clear and frosty. We learn vaguely that the attack on the defenses of Wilmington has been progressing since Friday, and that the enemy...

Very warm-clouds and sunshine, like April. Roger A. Pryor, who resigned his brigadiership, and has been acting as a scout (private), fell in...

To the Governor of the State of Virginia: DEAR SIR, SHERWOOD FOREST, January 31, 1861. I received your communication notifying me of...

Still we look out upon the fields of the South and behold the effects of desolating war. The plow is standing still; starvation and sufferin...

Rained all night—raining this morning A dispatch from Gen. Wheeler, 18th, at Forsyth, Ga., says: “The enemy rapidly advancing.” It is said...

Since our return from the Northland, a dull monotony reigns in camp; nothing greets our ears but an occasional braying of some hungry mule a...

Cloudy and pleasant; no rain last night, but the earth is saturated. No additional news from the army. It is said Gen. Bragg prevents news, ...

Lincolnand the Fight for Peace By John Avlon A groundbreaking, revelatory history of Abraham Lincoln’s plan to secure a just and lasting...

The President yet remains with the army, and the indications are that a great and perhaps final battle is near. Tom writes me, dating his le...

Great talk and many rumors from all quarters of peace. The journeys of the elder Blair to Richmond have contributed to these rumors, both he...

Much engaged. The two days have brought an amount of business which it is difficult to dispose of in a single day. But three of us at the Ca...

RE-ENLISTING. We have now entered on the last year of our soldier service and are looking forward to the end, and may it not only end our ...