CONFIDENTIAL. LIBRARY ROOM, WAR DEPARTMENT,           WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 31, 1868. TO THE PRESIDENT: Since our interview of yesterday I ...

Clear and hot. Dispatches from Bragg, at Montgomery, of yesterday, give no accounts of more fighting, although the press dispatches, etc. ...

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

PETERSBURG, April 2 , 1865 . His Excellency President DAVIS, Richmond, Va.: I think it is absolutely necessary that we should abando...

I was absent wounded in Vermont at the time of the battle of Cedar Creek, Va., and only know that my regiment fought desperately and lost h...

Our Division was ordered to move to City Point at daylight to take transports for Baltimore, Md., and thence by rail to Harper's Ferry,...

We have made arrangements so that we are quite comfortable in spite of the intense heat; has been very quiet in camp all day. All are antic...

This morning we started about 7 o'clock for camp and arrived about 10 o'clock a. m.; have had directions to fix up quarters as ther...

Well, here it is the first day of July! Who would think it? We have been fighting two months, and the time (July 4th), set by thousands for...

Quite warm, but a fairly cool breeze. The First and Second Divisions of our Corps worked all night destroying the railroad and are at it no...

Very warm and dry again this morning. General H. G. Wright, our corps commander, had an inspection and review at 7 o'clock this morning...

We relieved the Fourteenth New Jersey from picket; all quiet through the night; made my headquarters with the reserve in an orchard where w...

There was considerable thunder during the night, but no rain here, yet it has been cooler to-day than yesterday. We have a few lemons left....

Another Sabbath morning has dawned, and finds us in the same uncomfortable position as yesterday, yet I will not complain of the intense he...

Still we are behind our works sweltering in the sun. The only way we can possibly keep comfortable is to stick up brush which gives us a li...

Intensely warm and still; no prospect of rain; remained in our rear line of works until about 9 o'clock a. m. when we received orders t...

I worked a fatigue party on a fort all night arriving in camp about 5 o'clock a. m. tired and hungry; slept until about 6 o'clock p...

Have just returned from the heights. The City of Petersburg looks lovely at a distance, but our guns command it and can at any time lay it ...

It was warm and sultry in the middle of the day. We remained in our works till about 5 o'clock p. m. when on being relieved by General ...

As beautiful a morning as I ever saw; men are feeling better since they drew rations; had been without two days; heavy skirmishing in front...