Our strength at this place now amounts to about seven thousand men—on the entire Peninsula, nearly ten thousand. It is quite evident that ...

Last evening we received orders to be ready to move by sunrise this morning, and many of us took the liberty of going into the city to bid o...

Fair and warm, with pleasant breezes. Gen. Johnston, without a defeat, has fallen back to Calhoun, Ga. Gen. Lee, without a defeat, has f...

Rained all night, but clear most of the day. There are rumors of Burnside landing troops on the Peninsula; also of preparations for moveme...

Bright, beautiful weather, with frosty nights. The dispatches I cut from the papers to-day are interesting. Gen. Wise, it appears, has met...

  The tocsin is sounding at 9 A.M. It appears that Gen. Butler is marching up the Peninsula (I have not heard the estimated number of his ar...

The air is filled with rumors—none reliable. It is said Gen. Lee is much provoked at the alarm and excitement in the city, which thwarted a ...

 Gen. Lee wrote to the Secretary of War, on the 22d of January, that his army was not fed well enough to fit them for the exertions of the s...

Bright, beautiful day—but, alas! the news continues dark. Two companies of cavalry were surprised and taken on the Peninsula day before yes...

We have a rumor to-day that Meade is sending heavy masses of troops to the West to extricate Rosecrans, and that Gen. Hooker is to menace R...

“Independence Day.” Fortunate to escape this great national festival in the large cities of the Union where it is celebrated with many days...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, May 4 . (Received 12 m.) Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: Yorktown is in our possession. ...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, May 4 , 1862 — 9 a.m. (Received 4.15 p.m.) Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: We have the r...

Nothing from Lee, or Johnston, or Beauregard, or Bragg — but ill luck is fated for them all. Our ladies, at least, would not despair. But a...

There is no confirmation of the report of the fall of Vicksburg, but it may be so; nor is it certain that we have advanced to Harrisburg, b...

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...

An officer of the Signal Corps reported, yesterday, the force of Gen. Keyes, on the Peninsula, at 6000. To-day we learn that the enemy is i...

Col. Baylor, of Arizona, has been heard from again. He confesses that he issued the order to slaughter the Apaches in cold blood, and says ...

We have been beaten in an engagement near Jackson, Miss., 4000 retiring before 10,000. This is a dark cloud over the hopes of patriots, for...

This morning early the tocsin sounded, and the din, kept up for several hours, intensified the alarm. The presence of the enemy would not h...