“We hold traitors responsible for the work upon which they have precipitated us, and we warn them that they must abide the full penalty. Esp...

BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS,           Jamestown, Tenn., Nov . 22, 1861. General S. Cooper,           Adjutant and Inspector-General, Richmond: S...

To-day northern papers are received containing Burnside's General order No. 38 , for the benefit of Ohio's devilish democracy. We de...

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 38. HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO,           Cincinnati, Ohio, April 13, 1863. The commanding general publishes, for th...

Reached Pittsburg at 2 P. M. Left on Cleveland train at 3. Pittsburg in mourning. Rode in company with a Cleveland man, Briggs, I believe. ...

I am embarrassed at the very outset. For I recollect that I am an abolitionist; and I recollect that in the public esteem he who is an abol...

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Jackson, Tenn., February 7, '63. There was a dose of medicine administered to the command in this di...

After the work in the morning repaired to headquarters and heard Andy Johnson of Tennessee and Gov. Wright of Indiana. Both spoke well, sai...

The Quartermaster-General publishes a notice that he will receive and distribute contributions of clothing, etc. to the army, and even pay ...

But the Marylanders have not risen yet. Some of our divisions have touched the soil of Pennsylvania. And I believe the whole Yankee host wo...

An iniquitous looking prisoner was brought in to-day from Orange C. H., by the name of Robert Stewart. The evidence against him is as fol...

Dibble, the traitor, has been captured by our soldiers in North Carolina. SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones,  A Rebel War Clerk's Dia...

Camp Near Seneca , November 29, 1861, Friday Evening. ’T is a misty, moisty morning, and cloudy is the weather, — a hunting morning, ...

Congress is investigating the Roanoke affair. Mr. Benjamin has been denounced in Congress by Mr. Foote and others as the sole cause of the ...

Cedarcroft , Sunday, April 21, 1861. Everything here is upside down. We live almost in a state of siege, with the rumors of war flying ...

New YorK, April 1, 1862. . . . Regarding slavery, I repeat, let us compress it as much as we can. Let us free, in actual war, as many ...

Saw Col. Pendleton to-day, but it was not the first time. I have seen him in the pulpit, and heard him preach good sermons. He is an Episco...

Davin! Have had a talk concerning him to-day with two opposite extremes of people. Mrs. Chesnut, my mother-in-law, praises everybody, go...

20th April, 1861. Anna and the baby are perfectly well. Her brother Bob and my brother Sam marched yesterday with their regiment, the 7t...

If the war for the Union fails its failure will probably be caused more by treason than by force of arms.   There is every reason to believ...