A cold rain continued during the night. What would the good folks at home say could they see this camp this cool, wet morning—men lying in t...

The scouting party sent out this morning were conveyed by wagons six miles up the valley, and were to take to the mountains, half a mile bey...

At 7 o'clock, another man had been shot, lay near the creek. Brisk showers in the night; the day is steadily hot. Rumor that 4,000 are t...

Cloudy, cold, and dismal. We have no news except from the North, whence we learn Lieut. Beall, one of our Canada raiders, has been hung; tha...

Cloudy; rained yesterday and last night. We have no important news from South Carolina, except the falling back toward Columbia of our tro...

To-day Lieutenants Sullivan and Rowett are sent with a flag of truce into North Alabama, to negotiate an exchange for our men who were captu...

Calm and warm; clouds and sunshine, without wind. All quiet below. It is reported that one of our picket boats in the James River deserted...

HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE TENN., Vicksburg, Miss., July 8 , 1863 . Maj. Gen. J. B. MCPHERSON, Comdg. Seventeenth Army Corps: GENERAL: There a...

VICKSBURG, MISS., July 8, 1863. Maj. Gen. J. B. MCPHERSON, Comdg. Seventeenth Army Corps: GENERAL: There apparently being some misunderst...

CAMP HASTINGS, NEAR CUMBERLAND, February 22, 1865. DEAR MOTHER:— I suppose you have heard of the kidnapping of General Crook and General K...

CAMP RUSSELL, VIRGINIA, December 18, 1864. Sunday morning before breakfast. DEAR MOTHER: — We have as yet received no orders as to winter qu...

But little at the Cabinet of special importance. Governor Dennison, the new Postmaster-General, for the first time took his seat. Late in ...

The President came to see me pretty early this morning in relation to the exchange of prisoners. It had troubled him through the night. I wa...

A cold rain all day; wind from northwest. Mr. Ould and Capt. Hatch, agents of exchange (of prisoners), have returned from a conference wit...

LIBERTY HALL, GA., June 12, 1863. Hon. Jefferson Davis, Richmond, Va. Dear Sir: I have just seen what purports to be a letter addressed to y...

RICHMOND, July 2, 1863. Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, Richmond, Va. Sir: Having accepted your patriotic offer to proceed as a military commis...

Clear and pleasant, after a slight shower in the morning. The raid is considered at an end, and it has ended disastrously for the invaders...

Bright, cool, and dusty. No war news; nor denial or confirmation of the wonderful victory of Forrest in Mississippi. That he captured the en...

A flag of truce boat came up, but no one on board was authorized to negotiate for an exchange of prisoners but Gen. Butler, outlawed. It re...

CITY POINT, VA. , August 21 , 1864 — 5 p.m. Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War: Please inform General Foster that under no ci...