WASHINGTON, March 16, 1861. Every day affords proof of the absence of any settled policy or harmonious concert of action in the administra...

A slight solace to one's anxieties about home is found in the circumstances brought by successive steamers during the week. 1. The propo...

I have been kept for a week, and am still, in a state of great anxiety about the dangerous political excitements at home. The President has ...

If we are in turmoil on the western side of the Atlantic, they are not much better off on this eastern side. The King of Prussia has just sa...

February 1, 1861. . . . It is war to surround Anderson with batteries, and it is shilly-shally for the South to cry “Hands off! No coercio...

SEMINARY, Feb. 1, 1861.  . . . I suppose you are impatient to hear what next. Last night I got full letters from Baton Rouge. Governor Moo...

[January, 1861.]  . . . Louisiana will surely secede this month, but no hostile movements will take place for some time, and about the 4th...

TYRONE, Friday Night, Jan. 4, 1861. DEAR COLONEL: Your Christmas letter came duly to hand, and I beg to make you my acknowledgements for i...

LOUISIANA STATE SEMINARY                     of Learning and Military Academy,           Alexandria, Jan. 5, 1861.  . . . I have finished my...

ALEXANDRIA, Jan. 8, 1861.  . . . Things are moving along with the rapidity of revolutions. The papers announce that the people of Alabama ...

SEMINARY, Jan. 13, 1861.  . . . I see no change to note here in public sentiment, the fact that Seward has been named as secretary of stat...

December 15[?], 1860. . . . I started to write a letter to Minnie but got drawn into this political strain that is not for her but you. Re...

ALEXANDRIA, Dec. 18, 1860. . . . I cannot remain here much beyond January 23, the time set for the state convention to dissolve the connec...

SEMINARY, Christmas, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: They [the cartridges] are a most appropriate present, and I hope they may all be used for holiday...

Intelligence of the evacuation of Petersburg and the capture of Richmond was received this A.M., and the city has been in an uproar through ...

WEST POINT, December 21, 1860 DEAR SISTER:  We are on general review in mineralogy and geology preparatory to our last January examinatio...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,              Louisville, Ky., November 6 , 1861 . General L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General: S...

THE TROOPS BRIGADED. The troops encamped around here have been formed into three brigades, and will be commanded by Brigadier Generals...

In compliance with the request of the Convention, we beg leave to make the following statement: On Saturday, the 8th of December, several...

Washington, D. C, January 1st, 1861. Sir: We have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th December , in reply...