Bright and dry again. Gen. Johnston has been relieved. It would seem that Gen. Hood has made a successful debut as a fighting general in c...

February 25, 1865. Have not moved to-day. Rebels captured 15 men of the 29 Missouri to-day. Our foragers have been straggling for seven or...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH,      Hilton Head, S.C., April 23 , 1863.  JEFFERSON DAVIS, Richmond, Va. : The United States flag must...

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

Headquarters, Richmond , July 2, 1863. Sir: As Commander in Chief of the land and naval forces now waging war against the United States, ...

Charleston, Camp Elk , July 2, 1864. Dearest : — Back again to this point last night. Camped opposite the lower end of Camp White on t...

NEAR MIDDLEBURG, October 29 , 1864 . General R. E. LEE, Commanding Army of Northern Virginia: GENERAL: I desire to bring through y...

There was a rumor that Chattanooga had been evacuated; but it turns out that the enemy are fortifying it, and mean to keep it, while operat...

At the Cabinet-meeting each of the members read his opinion. There had, I think, been some concert between Seward and Stanton and probably ...

I have written a letter to the President in relation to the Fort Pillow massacre, but it is not satisfactory to me, nor can I make it so wi...

There is trouble in the Conscription Bureau. Col. Preston, the new superintendent, finds it no bed of roses, made for him by Lieut.-Col. La...

No news. It turns out that Gen. Taylor got only 500 prisoners at Donaldsonville, La., instead of 4000. A writer in the New York Tribune...

Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America in response to message of the President transmitted to Congress at the commen...

Nothing but disasters to chronicle now. Natchez and Yazoo City, all gone the way of Vicksburg, involving a heavy loss of boats, guns, and o...

By order of Brig.-Gen. G. W. Custis Lee, the department companies were paraded to-day, armed and equipped. These, with the militia in the s...

To-day we have an account of the burning of Darien, Ga. The temptation is strong for our army to retaliate on the soil of Pennsylvania. ...

Gen. Beauregard's statement of the number of his troops, after 10,000 had been ordered to Mississippi, with urgent appeals for the orde...

The Tredegar Iron Works and Crenshou's woolen factory were mostly destroyed by fire last night! This is a calamityWe have also intellig...

We are still at Chambersburg. Lee has issued a remarkably good order on non-retaliation, which is generally well received; but I have heard...

It rained all night, which may extinguish Buniside's ardent fire. He cannot drag his wagons and artillery through the melting snow, and...