Camp near Orange Court House, Va., January 16, 1864. The army is filling up with conscripts, absentees and others, and if we get also the ...

Bright and cool-a little rain last night. The Departmental Battalion is still kept out. They have built a line of fortifications four mile...

Clear and pretty cold. We have news of another brilliant affair at Kinston, N. C, where Gen. Pickett has beaten the enemy, killing and woun...

It rained moderately last night, and is cooler this morning. But the worst portion of the winter is over. The pigeons of my neighbor are bu...

Yesterday was the coldest day of the winter, and last night was a bitter one. This morning it is bright and clear, and moderating. We have ...

IN THE FIELD, ATLANTA, GA., Sept. 8, 1864 DEAR SIR:—Yr kind note of Aug. 24 from Rochester, N. Y. reached me here and I am really thank...

Yesterday the Senate passed the following bill, it having previously passed the House: “ A Bill to be entitled An Act to put an end to t...

Another interposition of Providence in behalf of my family. The bookseller who purchased the edition of the first volume of my “Wild Wester...

Averill (Federal) made a raid a day or two since to Salem (Roanoke County, Va.), cutting the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, destroying th...

We have nothing new yet from Averill’s raiders; but it is said Gen. Lee has set a trap for them. From East Tennessee there is a report that...

It rained last night. To-day there is an expectation of a battle near Chancellorville, the battle-ground of June last. Meade is certainly a...

After a fine rain all night, it cleared away beautifully this morning, cool, but not unseasonable. There is no news of importance. The Gove...

I am embarrassed at the very outset. For I recollect that I am an abolitionist; and I recollect that in the public esteem he who is an abol...

No news from any of the armies this morning. But Gen. Whiting writes that he is deficient in ordnance to protect our steamers and to defend...

Gen. Lee telegraphed last night that our cavalry had routed the enemy's horse on Monday, capturing some 200, etc. etc. The Legislat...

Headquarters Del. Dept. Wilmington, Del. , July 20th, 1863. My dear Mother: You have heard before now, I suppose, that I was in New...

Another letter from Gen. Whiting, urging the government by every consideration, and with all the ingenuity and eloquence of language at his...

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the U...