A brighter morning, cool and clear. The President was at work yesterday. He and the Secretary and Gen. Cooper put their heads together to ma...

A night of rain—morning of fog and gloom. At last we have an account of the evacuation of Savannah. Also of the beginning of the assault on ...

Bright and beautiful. Some firing was heard early this morning on the Darbytown road, or in that direction; but it soon ceased, and no fig...

HEADQUARTERS, Knoxville, November 26 , 1861 . Hon. J.P. BENJAMIN,           Secretary of War: SIR: I have the honor to report that I arri...

Col. Rains had learned that Col. Brown, who was in command of the Home Guards that had fled to Wildcat the evening before, lived some two or...

Through carelessness, or some other cause, five barrels of salt were left where they were captured, near where the enemy had been camping. L...

Harris's (B) and Ewing's (C) companies arrived from Knoxville and rejoined the rest of McNairy's Battalion at Camp Buckner. Be...

Hot and dry. Twelve hundred Federal prisoners passed our door to-day, taken at Petersburg—about half the number captured there during the ...

ALL QUIET ON THE ROANOKE. The noise of the battle is over and we are longer harassed by war's dread alarms, but can now sit down, eat ...

  For some cause, we had no mail to-day. Fine, bright, and pleasant weather. Yesterday Mr. Lyons called up the bill for increased compensa...

October 13, 1864. The men drew full rations of bacon to-day. There has been some fighting nine miles down the north side of the Coosa r...

HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION,                   MEMPHIS, TENN., August 11, 1862. Hon. S. P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury. SIR: Y...

HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION,                   Memphis, August 17 , 1862 . Major-General GRANT, Corinth: DEAR SIR: A letter from yo...

Orders this morning to draw two days' rations, pack up and be ready to move at a moment's warning. We drew hard-tack, coffee, bacon...

We four girls rode to “Mary Jenkins[’ plantation],”   where the children screamed and ran to hide at the sight of white faces. Dr. Hering s...

No news of battles yet. But we have a rumor of the burning of the fine government steamer R. E. Lee, chased by the blockaders. That makes t...

(Unofficial) New Orleans , December 10th, 1862. Dear Sir : I send this letter by Mr. Flanders who leaves to-day for Washington, and s...

(Private) New Orleans , November 29th, 1862. Dear Sir : — I thank you for your kind letter of the 14th inst. Whenever it is deemed ex...

(Private) New Orleans , Nov. 14th, 1862. Dear Sir: Four days ago, General Butler showed me the letter he had just received from you,...

(Private and unofficial) New Orleans , Oct. 10th, 1862. Dear Sir : I have received your official letter of Sept. 22nd. enclosing le...