The incident at the creek, where I nearly drew the fire of two sentries, led me to inquire as to methods prison authorities have for informi...

Clear and cool. It is now said Mr. Seddon's resignation has not yet been accepted, and that his friends are urging the President to pers...

Early this morning, long ere it is light, the soldier is up with his can bucket making his coffee—how it refreshes him this cold morning. Th...

This morning we remain at Rookersville, and the probability is that we will remain here all day. This is indeed a wrecked country, being alm...

Cold, clear, and calm, but moderating. Mr. Benjamin sent over, this morning, extracts from dispatches received from his commercial agent i...

Gen. Longstreet writes that it will be well to winter in East Tennessee (Rogersville), unless there should be a pressing necessity for him ...

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,                   In the Field, Savannah, Ga., January 21 , 1865 . Maj. Gen. GEORGE ...

Meadow Bluff, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, May 19. l864. Dear Uncle : — We are safely within what we now call “our own lines” af...

Meadow Bluff, May 19, 1864 Dearest: — We got safely to this point in our lines, two hours ago, after twenty-one days of constant marchi...

We have further reports from the West, confirming the success of Longstreet. It is said he has taken 2200 prisoners, and is probably at Kno...

A dispatch from Raleigh informs us of a mob yesterday in that city. Some soldiers broke into and partially destroyed the office of the Stan...

Steamer “Cosmopolitan,” bound to Beaufort from Savannah, Ga., January 21, 1864. I was at Beaufort some three days when I received a...

The partial gloom continues. It is now ascertained that Gen. Morgan is a prisoner; only some 250 of his men out of 3000, having escaped. ...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, New Orleans, May 25 , 1862 . Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: SIR : In matters pertai...

All the mess slowly but none the less surely succumbing to the diseases incident here. We are not what you may call hungry. I have actually...

Old prisoners (some of them) will not credit the fact that there is plenty to eat at the North They think because we are starved here, that...

A cheerful bright morning and a sound sleep dispels the gloom resting on my views of the future. During the night a courier came to my tent...

No rations issued yesterday to any of the prisoners and a third of all here are on the very point of starvation. Lieut. Bossieux sympathize...

With no news concerning the great subject — exchange of prisoners Very hungry and am not having a good time of it. Take it all around I beg...

It has been a delightful day; expect to be relieved this afternoon. Two deserters came into our lines this morning; they report Lee's a...