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...

Rienzi.   The 3rd Section, Lieutenant Hood, went out in front and the first fell back to its old grounds. Foraging party brought in two load...

We had a great time to-day, having sent out this morning some six thousand troops, with about one hundred wagons, on a foraging expedition. ...

We are shooting at the Yankees to-day for fun, as they are trying to steal sheep from the houses that are between our lines. SOURCE: Louis...

Franklin County, Pa.,           June 28, 1863. We are in Yankeedom this time, for certain, and a beautiful and magnificent country it is t...

SEMINARY, June 28, 1860. . . . Last week I dismissed summarily two cadets of good families and large connexions. One has appealed to the B...

Clear and warm. The local troops did not march until this morning, and no one supposes Richmond is seriously menaced by Grant. I believe t...

This morning about nine o'clock the 3d brigade takes the backward track towards Bear River. We come to a halt about two miles from the r...

This morning Companies H and I, under the command of Captain Johnson, are sent on a foraging expedition, taking with them the Division train...

To-day some of the Seventh boys return from a foraging expedition in West Tennessee, bringing in some hogs, sheep, chickens and geese, makin...

This morning we again move early. We cross the Hatchie to-day, entering the great Mississippi pineries. We find it a barren wilderness. All ...

HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA, Sunday, October 2, 1864. DEAREST: — I am writing to you so often these days because I am thinking of you more anxi...

ALBERTI's Mills, 40 miles from FERNANDINA. January 30, 1863.  This river is rebellious to the last degree. It is very crooked and slug...

REASONING.  Lying around here in the woods, hearing no sound but the moaning of the wind through the tree tops, is rather dull business. The...

Alpine, Chatuga Valley, October 20, 1864. Got here at dark last night, eight miles from Summerville. We seemed to be headed southwest. I...

WOODSTOCK, October 7 , 1864 — 9 p.m.                  (Received 9 th.) I have the honor to report my command at this point to-night...

BERRYVILLE, VA ., August 17 , 1864 — 9 p.m. Lieut. Gen. U.S. GRANT, Commanding Armies of the United States: All your dispatches h...

We have recently journeyed through a portion of this free state, and it is not all imagination in us, that sees, in its bold scenery, — its...

Daylight advanced the line of pickets. Saw reb. Division massed, 2nd Brigade in rear. Attacked and broken in the P. M. 1st Brigade checked ...

October 2, 1863. Our foraging party brought in forty mules, fifty cattle, beef, twenty-one hogs and thirty sheep. They report a beautif...