Finds us across the Ogeechee, finds us before Savannah, finds us twelve miles from the sea. A defiant foe is before us disputing our advance...

After the fall of Fort McAllister, we obtain some supplies, but for the seventy thousand hungry soldiers they soon run out. For the last wee...

Last night Savannah was evacuated—her power yielded. The grand army is tramping now. Soon Sherman's terrible battle-flag will be flying ...

We are ordered to Fort Brown, two miles from the city, where we go into a more permanent camp. During our first days at Savannah, the Sevent...

About the twenty-fifth of January, Major Johnson, with his detachment, leaves Bonniventure, and joins the regiment at Fort Brown. Receiving ...

Foggy, and raining. F. P. Blair is here again. If enemies are permitted to exist in the political edifice, there is danger of a crash. This ...

Bright, clear, and cold. It is said the government depot at Charlotte, N. C., has been burned (accidentally), consuming a large amount of ...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES,           WASHINGTON, D.C., March 21, 1871. Dear Brother: A few days ago at the request of a mutua...

AUGUSTA, December 12, 1864. Col. JOHN B. SALE: The telegraph having been cut we get nothing from Savannah. A dispatch from Wheeler gives ...

SAVANNAH, December 15, 1864.           (Via Hardeeville 16th.) His Excellency President DAVIS: Sherman has secured a water base, and Fost...

Cloudy and cold, but wind southeast. The sullen sound of cannon heard this morning as usual down the river. I hear of no active operations...

Clear and pleasant; subsequently cloudy and chilly. All quiet below, save the occasional booming of our guns from the iron-clads. The ca...

Warm and cloudy. Quiet below. The President was reported better, yesterday, to my wife, who called. It is said Gen. Cooper, R. Ould, e...

Raining. The old dull sound of bombs down the river. Nothing further from Savannah. It is now believed that the raiders in Western Virgini...

The darkest and most dismal day that ever dawned upon the earth, except one. There was no light when the usual hour came round, and later th...

Bright and very cold. A storm has driven off a portion of the enemy's fleet before Wilmington. The raid toward Gordonsville and Char...

Christmas eve! Clear and cold. A dispatch from Hon. J. L. Orr and H. V.     (on their way home) informs the Secretary that from the delay ...

CHRISTMAS!-Clear and pleasantwhite frost. All quiet below. But it is believed on the street that Savannah has been evacuated, some days ag...

Raining-rained all night. The dark and dismal weather, together with our sad reverses, have made the countenances of croakers in the streets...

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 ...