A bright pleasant day. No particular news, but many rumors of fighting West. I have been in the office, am there every day filling out Paten...

It is stated that the embalmed remains of the President’s son would leave for Springfield, after the funeral at the White House. SOURCE: “...

Clear and pleasant. Walked to the department. We have vague and incoherent accounts from excited couriers of fighting, without result, in Di...

Another bright and beautiful day. I walked around the burnt district this morning. Some seven hundred houses, from Main Street to the cana...

Bright and pleasant. Stayed with my next door neighbors at their request last night—all females. It was quiet; and so far the United State...

Bright and beautiful. Rev. Mr. Dashiell called, after services. The prayer for the President was omitted, by a previous understanding. Rev...

Quite warm beautiful day. hear Lt Sis no better. disease Pnumonia, Rumors (?) of fighting near Ft Smith and boats captured SOURCE: “Diary ...

[Special Dispatch to the Charleston Courier.] WASHINGTON, December 27, 7 P. M.—Secretary FLOYD says positively that he knows nothing offic...

After the stage arrived on yesterday evening, I learned that it had come from only about fifty miles below and is not going to Alexandria an...

Quite sore from chopping and rolling cotton. Our Colonel, Amos Norton, is Commander of the Post, and Rats is provost-marshal, Col. Smith com...

Rienzi. We were aroused this morning with the same story of march and ordered to cook three days' rations and be ready to march at 1 P. ...

We are having another kind of excitement to-day. Boxes are flooding the barracks; the "Express" and "Torpedo" having bro...

Bright and cool. A violent southeast gale prevailed last evening, with rain. Of course we have no news in the papers from any quarter. Sheri...

Clear and very windy. The fear of utter famine is now assuming form. Those who have the means are laying up stores for the day of siege,—I m...

Rains incessantly from 5 A. M. Charles Shaw "E." Co. Detch'd as Post teamster shot in shoulder by an Indian soldier of the 9th...

Rienzi.   Was begun with another of the "strategic moves". We were told to hitch up with the greatest speed—all our baggage, knaps...

The sky is overcast with clouds, a cool breeze comes from the west, which makes the temperature delightful. I have been out berrying, and ha...

Haines Bluff, Miss.   We get no news from the outside world. Not even the New York Herald or Detroit Free Press, those blatant organs of sec...

The air is purified by rain during the night. At first dawn we go to the stream for a bath. Knowing the difficulty to keep clear of lice and...

Raining and cold. This morning there was another arrival of our prisoners on parol, and not yet exchanged. Many thousands have arrived this ...