Clear and pleasant; later cloudy. Yesterday, Mr. Peck, our agent, started South to buy provisions for the civil officers of the department...

A clear, but cool day. Again planted corn, the other having rotted. There is an unofficial report that one of our torpedo boats struck the...

  A CHANGE OF BASE. And now something else has turned up, and here we are encamped just outside the city and behind our batteries. The ord...

Camp White , May 7, 1863. Dearest :— The boxes came safely. The flag will not be cut. The coat fits well. Straps exactly according to r...

On the 18th inst. the enemy's battery on the opposite side of the Mississippi River opened on Vicksburg. The damage was not great; but ...

This is the anniversary of the birth of Washington, and of the inauguration of President Davis, upon the installation of the permanent gove...

Mr. H——s, another of Gen. Winder's detectives, has gone over to the enemy. He went on a privateering cruise from Wilmington; the vessel...

Camp Jones. — Had our first dress parade in five or six weeks last night. No room or opportunity for it this side of Princeton, May 5. . . ...

February 17, 1864. My dear sister: I received your last letter three days since. It is not often that I allow one of your letters to ...

The department leaves Gen. Wise to his superior officer, Gen. Huger, at Norfolk, who has 15,000 men. But I understand that Huger says Wise h...

[Naushon , August 31, 1861.] I feel as if I had been very negligent in not before thanking you for your most thorough and useful data a...

Executive Office, Iowa, Iowa City , Jan. 5, 1863. M. B. Cochran, Surgeon First Regiment Iowa Cavalry, Acting Medical Director 3d Divi...

Cincinnati, June 10 [9], 1861. Dear Uncle : — I shall go to Columbus in the morning under orders. I do not know what is intended, but ...