Late last night, Mr. Newton 4 came in to tell me that the Prest had just reed, a telegram to the effect that Columbus was evacuated. 5 Thi...

Yesterday we received orders to move this morning at daylight. We will join the right section of our battery, from which we have been separa...

Contrary to my expectations, we embarked at midnight on the steamer "William Allison," taking our guns and men, sending our horses...

Left Petersburg this morning for Suffolk. Was quite ill on the train, and when I reached Suffolk, had to take my bed. Heard to-day of the ac...

After breakfast I walked through the village of Suffolk; 'tis a pretty little place of some 2,000 inhabitants, and is the county seat of...

Have been confined to my bed for two days with chills and fever. The Suffolk people are very kind to our sick. SOURCE: William S. White,  ...

Left Suffolk to-day, on recruiting service, for Richmond; will be absent about two weeks. SOURCE: William S. White,  A Diary of the War; o...

We have just received orders to be ready to march at a minute's notice, with two days' rations in our haversacks. The quiet of repos...

Cloudy—slight showers. I published an article yesterday in the  Enquirer,  addressed to the President, on the subject of supplies for the ar...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA, May 29 , 1861 . SIR : The expedition to Newport News, of which I spoke in my last, eight miles f...

By order of Brig.-Gen. G. W. Custis Lee, the department companies were paraded to-day, armed and equipped. These, with the militia in the s...

We have nothing definite from Suffolk, or from Washington, N. C. But we have Northern accounts of their great disaster at Charleston. I...

We have nothing more from the Peninsula, Suffolk, N. C, or South Carolina; but it is rumored that the enemy's gun-boats (seven or eight...

From the Northern papers we learn that the defeat at Charleston is called by the enemy a  Reconnoissance . This causes us much merriment he...

The Federal papers have heard of the failure to take Charleston, and the sinking of the Keokuk; and yet they strive to mollify the disaster...

Another stride of the grim specter, and cornmeal is selling for $17 per bushel. Coal at $20.50 per ton, and wood at $30 per cord. And at th...

No war news of importance. Just at this time there is a large number of persons passing to and from the North. They are ostensibly block...

The atmosphere is thick with rumors of army movements. Hooker is reported to have crossed the river. Not unlikely a portion of his force ha...

Major-Gen. Hood's division passed through the city to day, and crossed over the river. I hope an attack will be made at Suffolk. It is ...

The resignation of Gen. Gustavus W. Smith has been accepted by the President. It was well done — the acceptance, I mean. Who will Gen. Wind...