Portsmouth, Va. , May 11th, 1863. For a week we heard, without anxiety, the booming of the guns at Suffolk, and we begged to be allowed...

Norfolk, poor Norfolk! nothing can exceed its long-suffering, its night of gloom and darkness. Unlike Winchester, it has no bright spots — ...

Norfolk and Portsmouth are evacuated! Our army falling back! The Merrimac is to be, or has been, blown up! SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones...

I fear there is something in the rumor that Norfolk and Portsmouth and Yorktown and the Peninsula will be given up. The Secretaries of War ...

A night of disturbed sleep, owing to the ponderous thumping of the walking beam close to my head, the whizzing of steam, and the roaring of...

Had a call to-day from an old schoolmate at Cheshire, now a chaplain in the army, Joseph H. Nichols. Invited and had him to tea with me and...

At no time has President Lincoln “put his foot down” to such good acceptance by the people as at Willoughby’s Point.   Here he was the firs...

(American’s Fort Monroe Correspondence.) BALTIMORE, May 24 – It is estimated that there are now in Norfolk and Portsmouth not less than 1,0...

FORT MONROE, May 28 via BALTIMORE – The steamer Massachusetts, which left Sunday morning for City Point with a flag of truce, returned early...

Our dispatches bring the gratifying intelligence of the capture of Norfolk, Portsmouth and the Gosport Navy Yard, by the forces under Genera...

We have already given an account of the taking of the two important cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth the recovery of the Gosport Navy Yard a...