McClellan's and Branner's Battalions returned to their camps at Beech Grove. Our battalion recrossed the river and went into camps n...

CAMP BOYLE, December 27 , 1861 — 9 p.m. General THOMAS: The enemy is at Jamestown, 18 miles from here, some 3,000 strong. He has ascerta...

HDQRS. ELEVENTH BRIGADE, U. S. VOLUNTEERS,           Columbia, December 12, 1861. General THOMAS, U. S. A.           Commanding First Divis...

We returned to camps a little after dark at the same place we started from the morning before. It was a cold, rainy day. We learned that q...

COLUMBIA, KY., November 29 , 1861 .           (Received November 30, 1861.) General GEORGE H. THOMAS: I received a dispatch before day th...

In the saddle early that morning, our battalion arrived at Jacksborough late in the afternoon (about twenty-two miles). Zollicoffer had left...

CAMP WOLFORD, ONE AND A HALF MILES FROM CAMP GOGGIN,           November 2, 1861.      (Received November 6.) General GEORGE H. THOMAS: I r...

This evening Seward read to the President a despatch from Cash Clay, in which he discussed the whole field of American politics — European ...