Hot and dry, and the famine continues. The Secretary of War intimated on Saturday that if the clerks of the bureaus would raise a fund and...

HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION,                   MEMPHIS, TENN., August 11, 1862. Hon. S. P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury. SIR: Y...

July 19, 1862. I don't know whether I have any business sending such a document as I enclose, but guess its no difference. Two spie...

Camp at Rienzi , July 17, 1862. I think there is more point and policy in that General Order 92 than in any one that has yet been issu...

11 p. m., 29th. — There is talk among the officers that Buell with 60,000 men is en route for Atlanta, Ga., intending to occupy that city, ...

Rienzi, Tishomingo Co., Miss., June 19, 1862. This is one of the few days that remind one of Illinois, although there are very few nigh...