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...

Gen. French writes that the enemy at Suffolk and Newbern amounted to 45,000; and this force now threatens Weldon and Wilmington, and we hav...

We learn from Gen. Bragg that the enemy did not retire far on the 2d inst., but remain still in the vicinity of Murfreesborough. He says, h...

Another day of intense anxiety and suspense. We are without any official information, and the inference is that the Government has none to ...

FORT MONROE, VA ., April 19 , 1863 . I deem it due to the forces at Suffolk to notice briefly their gallant conduct during the last si...

So much has happened since I last wrote in my diary, that I can scarcely collect my thoughts to give a plain detail of facts as they occurr...

On going to the hospital yesterday, I found that young Stansberry had died, surrounded by sympathizing friends, and having a bright hope of...

April 20, 1863. My dear sister: I have not heard from you for several days, so long that I began to fear that something had happened ...