Officers and men are low-spirited to-night. The news of yesterday has been confirmed. Our army has been beaten at Manassas with terrible los...

The Fifteenth Indiana, Colonel Wagner, moved up the valley eight miles. The sickly months are now on us. Considerable dysentery among the ...

Intelligence has reached London this morning from New York dated 14th, by which it appears that Fort Sumter had been attacked by the Secessi...

At 10 A. M. we were ordered to the front; passed quite a number of regiments on our way thither, and finally took position not far from the ...

Six or eight hundred Southern troops sent in a flag of truce, and surrendered unconditionally. They are a portion of the force which fought ...

Bardstown, where we are now encamped, is an old city of about six thousand inhabitants. The Seminary, which we now occupy as a hospital, was...

Reached Grafton at 1 P. M. All avowed secessionists have run away; but there are, doubtless, many persons here still who sympathize with the...

On the 19th of June, 1861, the 5th Regiment of Wisconsin Vols., being partially organized, went into camp at Madison, Wis. Here it remained ...

"I am monarch of all I survey." Last night, intelligence being received that an attack was expected on Washington; we were ordered...

FALL OF FORT SUMTER. The ball has opened; crowds of eager citizens may be seen gathered together at the corners of the streets excitedly d...

PADUCAH, KY.   On Saturday morning about five o'clock we were ordered to be ready to march in twenty-five minutes. We soon learned our d...

Judge Allen for many years was one of the most distinguished lawyers and jurists of Western Virginia. He was born at Woodstock, Shenandoah C...

SHERWOOD FOREST, November 10, 1860. So all is over, and Lincoln elected. South Carolina will secede. What other States will do remains to ...

HEADQUARTERS EAST TENNESSEE BRIGADE,           Camp Calvert, November 16, 1861. (Received November 17.) Brig. Gen. GEORGE H. THOMAS, U. S. ...

We have word that Sheridan has had a battle with a part of Lee's army, has captured six Rebel generals and several thousand prisoners. H...

 Great is the professed enthusiasm of the Democrats over the doings at Chicago, as if it were not a matter of course. Guns are fired, public...

ASHEBORO, Aug. 1st, 1861. The whole nation seems now to be heartily bowing its neck; in the North to Abolition, and in the South to Democrac...

ASHEBORO, May 13th, 1861 . I have just returned from Raleigh. The State regards the impending war as a sectional one and all seemed determin...

ASHEBORO , May 20, '61. Knowing that you are an ardent personal and political friend and that you cannot hear well, and that you are c...

ASHEBORO, May 22nd, 1861 . This State is now a perfect unit as the North seems to be. No man desired or worked harder than myself to prese...