To-day, as the negro guard was relieved, two of them commenced playing with their guns and bayonets, sticking at one another. Fortunately on...

We have had no fight here yet, but from the indications it can't be deferred much longer. We have drawn one hundred rounds of ammunition...

In camp near Culpepper, Va.—Weather delightful. Rumors of marching tomorrow morning. Marching orders we have been expecting several days, bu...

Started again this morning, and passed over the Chancellorsville battlefield. Marched twelve miles to-day. We passed a brigade of negro troo...

We are guarded by negro troops, who are as mean as hell. At each meal there is a guard placed over 500 prisoners, who go to their meals in r...

One of yesterday's wounded died to-day. This negro company was taken away to-day, as there is no telling what even men without arms will...

CHARLESTON, December 22 , 1864 .           (Received 23d.) On the 16th instant enemy, 800 strong, occupied Pollard. After burning Governm...

Clear and cold. We have nothing from below. From Wilmington, we learn there is much commotion to resist the armada launched against that por...

Christmas eve! Clear and cold. A dispatch from Hon. J. L. Orr and H. V.     (on their way home) informs the Secretary that from the delay ...

Bright and beautiful. Indian summer apparently. All quiet below—but it is anticipated by some that a battle will occur to-day, or in a day...

No. 2. Report of Brig. Gen. Joseph Finegan, C. S. Army, commanding District of East Florida. HDQRS. PROV. FORCES, DISTRICT EAST FLORIDA,...

No. 249. Report of Brig. Gen. James A. Smith, C. S. Army, commanding Cleburne's division, of operations November 20-December 26, 1864. H...

No. 248. Report of Col. Ellison Capers, Twenty-fourth South Carolina Infantry, of operations September 29-December 2, 1864. CHARLESTON, S.C...

October 31.—Reached Tuscumbia from bivouac at Town Creek; found the pontoon unfinished and no supplies; waited here nine days, and on the 10...

WASHINGTON, D. C. December 7, 1865. MY DARLING: Thanksgiving morning before breakfast. So far I have no very decided feeling about the lif...

No. 243. Report of Brig. Gen. James T. Holtzclaw, C. S. Army, commanding brigade, of operations November 20-December 27, 1864. HEADQUARTERS ...

Cloudy, and slight showers. In the afternoon dark clouds going round. We have nothing from below but vague rumors, except that we repulsed...

Clear and hot. All quiet at Petersburg. President Lincoln was at Fortress Monroe on Sunday last, after the explosion and its failure. Th...

No. 223. Report of Col. Thomas C. Boone, One hundred and fifteenth Ohio Infantry, of operations December 2-5, 1864. HDQRS. 115TH REGIMENT OH...