(Private) New Orleans , February 7th, 1863. Dear Sir : I wrote you by the last steamer expressing a wish to receive the office of “Com...

(Private) New Orleans , November 28th, 1862. Dear Sir : I have frequently conversed with Gen'l. Butler about an expedition to Tex...

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

I left Mobile in the steamer Florida for New Orleans this morning at eight o'clock. She was crowded with passengers, in uniform. In my ...

Took a squad of 14 men and went on an expedition to the East end of the island, and a short description of it at this time, perhaps, will n...

At 10 a. m. Pensacola, Fort Pickins and Santa Rosa Island in sight. Did not communicate with the shore. At 3 p. m. passed blockading fleet ...

Sergeant of the guard. Benjamin Jones of Company H, and Charles F. Cleveland of Company B, died and were buried in the ocean. Next day spok...

Soon after recruiting for the 13th Connecticut Regiment Infantry Volunteers was begun, I entered the recruiting service, and during the w...

Think, that since the 28th of May, I have not walked three squares at a time, for my only walks are to Mrs. Brunot's! It is enough ...

CAMP PIERPONT, VA., December 5, 1861. Yesterday morning General McCall invited me to ride into town with him, he knowing I wished to go...

The Montgomery Advertiser, of the 5th estimates the number of troops in the Rebel army from Alabama, at 17,000.   Governor Moore, in his Oc...

FORTRESS MONROE, March 26. – A flag of truce went to Norfolk to-day.   No news or papers were brought back.   A bundle of letters from the ...

The Bulletin has a letter from Ship Island, dated 18 th , which says the Itasca captured a schooner off Mobile Bay with 500 bales of cotton...

NEW YORK, March 11. The Steamer Philadelphia arrived to-night from Fort Pickens 1 st , Tortugas 4 th and Key West 6 th .   Gen. Arnold wa...

Special Message from the President. Departure of Andy Johnson for Tennessee. Funeral of Gen. Lander. A PARTY OF REBEL CAVALRY ROUTED. Ca...

BOSTON, March 6. The gunboat Saxon, from ship Island Feb. 22, arrived here this morning. The health of the regiments at Ship Island was go...

New York, Feb. 20. The steamer Karnack has arrived, with Havana dates of the 10th and Nassau of the 8th.   It is stated that several vessel...

NEW YORK, Feb. 13. The store ship Supply brings Ship Island dates of the 24th. She has on board the Captains and crew of the captured rebel...

BOSTON, Feb. 8. The ships Ocean Pearl, Idahoe [sic], and North America, with the troops and stores, forming a part of the Butler expedition,...