Reinforcements still continue to come, and we still remain quiet. Why we do not move we cannot tell. Perhaps the General is waiting for all ...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE MISSISSIPPI,           May 30 , 1862 — 1 . 20 a.m. Major-General HALLECK: The enemy is re-enforcing heavi...

The only thing new to-day is a dispatch from Gen. Longstreet, before Knoxville, stating that he had been repulsed in an assault upon the pl...

Another letter, from Gen. Whiting, calls vehemently for reinforcements, artillery, cavalry, and infantry — or else the city and harbor are ...

Washington, April 9. 1862 Major-General McClellan. My Dear Sir. Your despatches complaining that you are not properly sustained, ...

The Secretary of War promises that he will reinforce General Gillmore with 5000 men. I thought it should be 10,000 if we intended thorough ...

Gen. Bragg dispatches the government that Gen. Forrest has captured 800 prisoners in Tennessee, and several thousand of our men are making ...

Received a note from Major [Comly] that the enemy was moving from Red Sulphur either towards us or Colonel Crook. Kept the men preparing fo...

Well, the papers begin to speak encouragingly, and reinforcements are rapidly being sent Grant and Thomas. We have got but few yet, but rum...

Camp Green Meadows. — This has been a day of excitement and action. Before I was out of bed a courier came saying our pickets on New River ...

Such trifling! I'm tired of it! Must be we are waiting for something — aren't ready. I am glad to lay quiet, but such suspense keep...

Gen. Lee has left the city. His troops, encamped thirty miles north of Richmond, marched northward last night. So it is his determination t...

Gen. Lee is in the city, doubtless to see about the pressure upon him for reinforcements in North Carolina. Gen. Smith still writes from Go...

The generals in North Carolina are importunate for reinforcements. They represent the enemy as in great force, and that Weldon, Goldsboroug...

Camp On Flat Top Mountain , May 20, (Tuesday), 1862. Dearest : — Here we are “back again” — fifty or sixty miles in rear of the advan...

Camp On Flat Top Mountain On Line Between Mercer And Raleigh Counties , May 20, 1862. Dear Uncle : — The last three weeks has been a ...

We have more accounts of the battle of Fredericksburg now in our possession. Our loss in killed and wounded will probably be more than the ...

Camp At Adair's, Near Narrows Of New River, May 11, 1862. Sir : — Yesterday morning, 10th inst, at dawn, our mounted pickets thre...

Beaufort, S. C. April 15th, 1862. My dear Mother: Not wishing you to be exposed to disappointment, I must write a few brief lines by...

Camp Number 6, Giles Court-house, May 9, 1862, 10:30 (P. M.) Sir : — You will have to hurry forward reinforcements rapidly — as rapid...