[Pensacola, Florida, March 11, 1861.] My dear Wife: We left New Orleans on Friday. Saturday night at 12 o'clock we reached here, after a...

(Private and Unofficial) New Orleans , October 16th, 1862. Dear Sir : My last letter was in reference to trade with the enemy. ...

Washington , May 2 d 61 Dr V— I have delayed for a few days writing you in hopes to be able to give you all particulars about the Po...

Hiram Barney, Collector at New York, called on me. Is feeling depressed. The late frauds, or lately discovered frauds, annoy him. . . . ...

Washington D.C. Ap. 3 d 61 Dr Lowery— My expedition is ordered to be got ready, but I doubt if we shall get off. Delay, indecision...

Only three of us at the Cabinet meeting, and no special business matters were brought forward. I submitted to the President a dispatch from...

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,           Washington, April 1 , 1861 . Bvt.. Col. HARVEY BROWN, U. S Army, Washington, D. C.: SIR: You ...

Regt on the road at 6. at 7.30 made Bon secure bayou, see great heaps of oyster shells more low ground today. they bay & gulf one place...

Got off dispatches this morning ordering the ironclads south to strengthen Du Pont in his attack on Charleston, which he intends to take, —...

WASHINGTON, April 3 , 1861 . To the SECRETARY OF WAR: Under the strongest convictions on some military questions upon which great p...

At 10 a. m. Pensacola, Fort Pickins and Santa Rosa Island in sight. Did not communicate with the shore. At 3 p. m. passed blockading fleet ...

The reveille of the Zouaves, note for note the same as that which, in the Crimea, so often woke up poor fellows who slept the long sleep er...

Down to our yacht, the Diana, which is to be ready this afternoon, and saw her cleared out a little — a broad-beamed, flat-floored schooner...