OPENING THE GREAT WILDERNESS BATTLES. Before day bugles blowed, drums beat; men get ready to march. At dawn troops were moving; at sunrise...

We were visited to-day by our Governor, Zeb Vance, who made us a speech of two and a half hour's duration. With him on the platform was ...

Very warm-clouds and sunshine, like April. Roger A. Pryor, who resigned his brigadiership, and has been acting as a scout (private), fell in...

To-day we had a review. Present: General Lee, General Ewell, General Early, General Johnson and General Rodes, of our corps, and General Hil...

Camp near Orange Court House, Va . , August 10, 1863. All is quiet here now. When two armies have a great battle both sides are so cripple...

Camp near Orange Court House, Va . , September 16, 1863. For two or three days we have been expecting another fight, and we had three days...

Ox Hill, Va.,           September 3, 1862. I was in the battle at Manassas and made several very narrow escapes. I had to go on the field ...

Clear and cool. Pains in my head, etc. Hon. Mr. Foote told G. Fitzhugh early this morning that he had learned Gen. Early's army was sc...

Bright and beautiful. As I walked down to the department, heavy and brisk cannonading below assailed the ear. It was different from the or...

Bright and pleasant—the weather. Gen. Hood telegraphs that his army is so much mortified at the feeble resistance it made to Sherman, that...

Morris came to see me to-day. We are both in the same division and corps. Our corps is commanded by General Ewell. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Di...

Cloudy, but no rain. Nothimg new from Georgia or Petersburg. But a dispatch from Gen. Ewell, received to-day at half past two P.M., orders...

Clear and hot. Dispatches from Bragg, at Montgomery, of yesterday, give no accounts of more fighting, although the press dispatches, etc. ...

Clear and cool. Gen. Bragg sent to the Secretary of War to-day a copy of a letter from him to the President, yesterday, proposing to send ...

Clear and cool; warm late in the day. It is rumored now that the enemy got to Westtown yesterday, some ten miles below the point on this s...

Clear and cool. To-day, heavy firing is heard on the south side of the river. It is believed a general engagement is in progress. It is ...

Raining gently, and cool. As early as 4 A.M. there was an incessant roar of artillery, the vibrations of which could be felt in the houses...

Clear and warm, but the atmosphere is charged with the smoke and dust of contending armies. The sun shines but dimly. Custis was with us l...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA,           May 5, 1864—11 p.m. ( Received 6th. ) The enemy crossed the Rapidan yesterday at Ely'...

Bright and warm. The following is Gen. Lee's dispatch, received yesterday morning—the  italics  not his. HEADQUARTERS ARMY NORTHERN VI...