Wet drizzly rain all day. Fort detail relieved. Lt Seevers brings report of a march for 10 days. No orders until near noon, orders come to b...

Left Mansfield last night at 10 o'clock, and after a miserable, jolting ride of twenty-nine miles, got to the breakfast stand about 9 o...

Left Natchitoches at 9 o'clock p. m. on Tuesday and had a very disagreeable ride, taking all night to get to Dutchman Cumberlando to bre...

PORT HUDSON, LA. We arrived at this port yesterday at noon, having made a quick run from the scene of our late action, coming through withou...

After a lapse of several days, I again resume my diary. I was taken sick on the 1st inst., and have been unable to note the incidents as the...

The gun-boats and steamers are still below the bend, where they have been since Monday. They come up every day and throw shells at our batte...

Yesterday we had a pleasant time, compared with that of the day before. The whole command sobered off, and, the day being fine, we enjoyed t...

We have passed the danger for the present, and our boat is now steaming up Red river. The Indianola went up the Mississippi last night, and ...

Last night we tied up at the mouth of Red river, and this morning found our boat aground; but, after several hours' work, got her safely...

About 4 o'clock this afternoon we went up the river to bring down a company of artillery, and one of cavalry, to assist us in raising an...

Yesterday we moved back into civilization, and took up quarters in a swamp near the broad Mississippi. Have a good camping-ground for this c...

ALEXANDRIA, Dec. 23, 1860. . . . There certainly are symptoms of a general breaking up or dissolution of all government everywhere. The pe...

LANCASTER, Ohio, Sept. 16, 1860. MY DEAR FRIEND: I came up from Cincinnati last evening, whither I had gone to prove the sheets of our reg...

LANCASTER, OHIO, Sept. 30, 1860. MY DEAR FRIEND: I am much obliged to your letters which have kept me easy. Time now begins to approach the...

LANCASTER, O., Oct. 3, 1860. MY DEAR FRIEND: It is all-important the bedding, stationery, and textbooks, [and] your library books should al...

LANCASTER, OHIO, August 12, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: I left Alexandria in the stage on Tuesday morning, reached the wharf boat [at the mouth of...

LANCASTER, O. (Monday), Aug. 13, 1860. MY DEAR FRIEND: I arrived here yesterday morning, and found my family well. I left Miss Whittington i...

S.S. JOHN RAINE, Louisville, Ky., March 21, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: I have already written you that I have declined the London proposition, an...

Mr. Eames tells me the Court has decided adversely in the matter of cotton captured by the Navy on the Red River. I perceive that the Court ...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,                    Forts Jackson and Saint Philip, April 29 , 1862 . SIR: I have the honor to rep...