There was no Cabinet-meeting yesterday, and labor in the Department was suspended on account of the funeral of Lieutenant-General Scott. S...

CINCINNATI, October 6, 1866. DEAR UNCLE:— We are talking of putting a notice in the papers about two boys we lost a fortnight ago. They le...

The President has certainly conferred on Bragg the position once (1862) occupied by Lee, as the following official announcement, in all the ...

CAMP SAXTON, BEAUFORT, S. C. December 27, 1862. . . . There is a little more of solid reality in this work of camp-life than I have ...

Boston , May 30th, 1852. My Dear Mann : — I was equally surprised and disappointed by hearing of your Hegira (to Washington). I was in ...

April 25. . . . I desire . . . to say that we can send to you four thousand more troops from Massachusetts within a very short time aft...

Last night I talked with a guard while Mike Hoare went out of his tunnel and got away safely from the hospital. The guard was on the inside...

Talk of Millen, about ninety miles from here. Mike will trade off the rings to-night. Owe Sergt. Winn $12 for onions and sweet potatoes, co...

Just at dawn, I woke up and got out on the platform of the carriage, which is the favorite resort of smokers and their antithetics, those w...

Am decidedly better and getting quite an appetite but can get nothing but broth, gruel, &c. Mouth very bad. Two or three teeth have com...

An active man would soon go mad if he were confined in Cairo. A mudbank stretching along the course of a muddy river is not attractive to a...

Yesterday the government seized the flour in the mills and warehouses; and now the price has risen from $30 to $40 per barrel. I wrote to t...

Flat Top. — A fine day. No demonstrations in camp except a National salute and a little drunkenness. Quietness of the Sabbath reigned. ...

That General Smith was a joker was conceded by everybody, our friends, the enemy, as well as the union army. When we were in Alexandria I w...

If it was any consolation to me that the very noisy and very turbulent warriors of last night were exceedingly sick, dejected, and crestfal...

Gen. Burnside acknowledges a loss of upwards of 5000, which is good evidence here that his loss was not less than 15,000. The Washington pa...

Last night with my good host from his plantation to the great two-storied steamer General Quitman, at Natchez. She was crowded with planter...

At last venit summa dies et ineluctabile tempus. I had seen as much as might be of the best phase of the great institution — less than I co...