BINGHAMTON, N. Y., September 13, 1853. MY DEAR SIR—I have this moment received your favor of the 10th, calling my attention to a communica...

SEMINARY, June 28, 1860. . . . Last week I dismissed summarily two cadets of good families and large connexions. One has appealed to the B...

LOUISIANA STATE SEMINARY, ALEXANDRIA, April 15, 1860. This is Sunday. Some of the cadets have gone to church, some fishing and the balance...

Planters and others wishing to send donations of food, cotton or anything else, to the southern mothers, Memphis, are requested to send the...

Near Jackson, Ga., November 17, 1864, 12 a.m. Have just had our coffee. Marched some 17 miles to-day. Begin to see where the “rich plan...

GENERAL ORDERS No. 22.] HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,              New Orleans, May 4 , 1862 . The commanding general of the depart...

(Private) New Orleans , February 8th, 1863. Dear Sir : I received to-day a letter signed by you, of date Jan. 22nd, whereby I am appo...

(Private) New Orleans , February 7th, 1863. Dear Sir : I wrote you by the last steamer expressing a wish to receive the office of “Com...

(Private) New Orleans , January 15th, 1863. Dear Sir : A fight is progressing on Bayou Teche. Gen. Weitzel commands. He crossed Berwi...

Soldier's Retreat, near Natchez, Aug. 23d, 1823. Since my last letter, my dear Col. Brush, I have been a refugee from Natchez, wher...

Thibodeaux, La ., December 16, 1859. My Dear Sherman : I received your letter from the city. Had your visit only been a week later I co...

May 23, 1864. Weather is getting very hot. We have made 21 miles today, and the distance, heat and dust have made it by far the hardest...

Nothing from the armies; but from Charleston it is ascertained that the enemy's batteries on Morris Island have some of the guns pointi...

Seminary Of Learning, Alexandria , Nov. 25, 1859. I am still out here at the Seminary, pushing on the work as fast as possible, but peo...

Macon [ga.], June 8th, 1846. Dear Howell , Yours of the 31st ult. came duly to hand. I had considered all things maturely and determin...

I learn an order has been issued to conscribe all commissary and quartermasters' clerks liable to military service. There will be, and ...

Rienzi, Tishomingo Co., Miss., June 14, '62. We have located for a somewhat permanent stay, as the clumsy order said, in the most b...

Left on two small transports for Donaldsonville. Arrived next day and camped on old drill ground. Meanwhile the vegation had grown up tall ...

Before noon the steamer hauled along-side a stationary hulk at Baton Rouge, which once “walked the waters” by the aid of machinery, but whi...

At last venit summa dies et ineluctabile tempus. I had seen as much as might be of the best phase of the great institution — less than I co...