Clear and very windy. The fear of utter famine is now assuming form. Those who have the means are laying up stores for the day of siege,—I m...

Haines Bluff, Miss. Once more on land, and glad are we of the change. We arrived at the mouth of the Yazoo at ten o'clock yesterday morn...

5 a. m. The cars shrink, or the men swell, for certainly everybody had less room last night than before. Cross and crabbed, sore in every ...

We have reports of some successes to-day. Gen. Hampton, it appears, surprised and captured several companies of the enemy's cavalry, a ...

Went on a foraging expedition and secured some poultry for home consumption. Heard news of a fight between our brigade and the rebels at Th...

camp Near Seneca , November 26, 1861. If you are to have another letter from a major commanding, I suppose it had better be written to...