Rained in torrents last night; cold this morning and cloudy. All quiet below. But there was an alarm, night before last, growing out of a ...

Last night, the weather being very pleasant, the President's house was pretty well filled with gentlemen and ladies. I cannot imagine h...

Gen. Longstreet reports some small captures of the enemy's detached foraging parties. The prisoners here have now been six days with...

Troops, a few regiments, have been passing down from Lee's army, and going toward North Carolina. A dispatch, in cipher, from Petersburg...

At the President's, where General Lee breakfasted, a man named Phelan told General Lee all he ought to do; planned a campaign for him. ...

At Mrs. Lyons's met another beautiful woman, Mrs. Penn, the wife of Colonel Penn, who is making shoes in a Yankee prison. She had a lit...

Drove out with Mrs. Davis. She had a watch in her hand which some poor dead soldier wanted to have sent to his family. First, we went to he...

Still at Chantilly. Every thing quiet, nothing particularly exciting; yet we are so restless. Mrs. C. and myself rode to the camp at Fairfa...