PETERSBURG, December 10 , 1864 — 11 o'clock. Hampton, after driving enemy's cavalry upon his infantry, on afternoon of 8th recro...

Rained hard in the night; clear and pleasant in the morning. A letter from John T. Bourne, St. Georges, Bermuda, says he has some 1800 bar...

Near Chaffin's Bluff, Va.,           July 6, 1864. I have not written to you for several days because I knew a letter could not go Sou...

Near Petersburg, Va.,           September 14, 1864. It seems that you have not received the bundles I sent to you. I sent some gunpowder h...

Near Petersburg, Va.,           Sunday, October 2, 1864. Last Thursday afternoon we received orders to be in readiness to move to the nort...

Near Petersburg, Va .,           October 12, 1864. I have not received a letter from you for several days, as there seems to be something ...

Near Petersburg, Va.,           October 29, 1864. I suppose you have heard how we whipped the Yankees on both this side and the north side...

Near Petersburg, Va . ,           November 3, 1864. We are still quiet. Nothing is going on except the continual fighting of the skirmishe...

Near Petersburg, Va . ,           November 28, 1864. The mails seem to be greatly deranged again, for I have not heard one word from you i...

  Newberry , S.  C.           , May 2, 1865 . It was well you left Petersburg when you did, for the very next day (April 2) our extreme ri...

Dark and raining. Cannon heard down the river. To-day our Congress assembles. Senator Johnson, of Missouri (who relinquished six years in ...

Bright. Tom's rations came in—worth $200— for a month. Gen. Lee writes that it is necessary for the gun-boats to guard the river as fa...

Bright and beautiful. Still all quiet below, the occasional bombarding near Petersburg being beyond our hearing. Yesterday, Gen. Preston...

Cloudy. There is a street rumor of a battle below, and on the Petersburg line. The wind is from the west, and yet we hear no guns. The Sec...

Cloudy and calm. All quiet. It was a false alarm yesterday evening. Nothing but some of the enemy's cavalry scouts were seen from the ...

Misty and damp, but warm. Guns heard down the river. On Friday, it seems, the enemy penetrated and held a portion of our works below Peter...

Bright, and very warm. There is a report that Gen. Hood's army is at Marietta, in Sherman's rear, and it may so. One of the cler...

Near Fredericksburg, Va.,           May 16, 1862. I arrived here this morning about ten o'clock. My trip was all very pleasant, except...

Bright; subsequently cloudy and warm rain. Staunton was entered by the enemy's cavalry on Monday afternoon. We have no news whatever...

Clear, and quite cold. Gen. Hood has agreed to a short armistice with Sherman, ten days, proposed by the latter. Our people don't know...