Bright and pleasant. An order has been given to impress  all  the supplies (wheat and meat) in the State, and Gen. Kemper has been instruc...

Washington , 28th December, 1860. Sir: We have the honor to transmit to you a copy of the full powers from the Convention of the People...

Washington City , January 8, 1861. To the Senate and House of Representatives: At the opening of your present session I called your a...

Sir: The Hon. R. W. Barnwell, the Hon. J. H. Adams and the Hon. James L. Orr have been appointed Commissioners by the Convention to proceed...

Mm. Wigfall, with the “Lone Star” flag in her carriage, called for me. We drove to the fair grounds. Mrs. Davis's landau, with her span...

RICHMOND, Va. — Now we feel safe and comfortable. We can not be flanked. Mr. Preston met us at Warrenton. Mr. Chesnut doubtless had too man...

FAUQUIER WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, Va.. – Mr. Brewster came here with us. The cars were jammed with soldiers to the muzzle. They were very poli...

CHARLESTON, S. C. — We have come back to South Carolina from the Montgomery Congress, stopping over at Mulberry. We came with R. M. T. Hunt...

Find every one working very hard here. As I dozed on the sofa last night, could hear the scratch, scratch of my husband's pen as he wro...