WE are nearly out of sight of land. Wild ducks and geese cover the water. The sun is just coming up, and seems to me I never saw such a love...

NEWPORT NEWS. I am now on the sacred soil of old Virginia, and my first care will be to seek an introduction to some of the F. F. V's....

(Private) New Orleans , January 8th, 1863. Dear Sir : A disaster has occurred at Galveston, similar to that near Fortress Monroe when...

A very pleasant ride down the James. Rounded Lighthouse Point. Soon passed Harrison's Landing, then Fort Powhatan and Wilcox's Land...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA, May 29 , 1861 . SIR : The expedition to Newport News, of which I spoke in my last, eight miles f...

A night of disturbed sleep, owing to the ponderous thumping of the walking beam close to my head, the whizzing of steam, and the roaring of...

Called on the Attorney-General in relation to the appointment of a chaplain, — a singular case. When the Cumberland was sunk in March last,...

In the naval battle the other day we had twenty-five guns in all. The enemy had fifty-four in the Cumberland, forty-four in the St. Lawrenc...

A freshman came quite eager to be instructed in all the wiles of society. He wanted to try his hand at a flirtation, and requested minute i...

Mrs. Middleton was dolorous indeed. General Lee had warned the planters about Combahee, etc., that they must take care of themselves now; h...

Yesterday we heard good news from the mouth of James River. The ship "Virginia," formerly the Merrimac, having been completely in...

Shady Hill , 19 March, 1862. . . . I am not as critical as Iago, but I do not like McClellan's address to his troops . It is too Fr...

Called this morning on General Halleck, who had forgotten or was not aware there was a naval force in the James River cooperating with the ...

CAMP AT HUNTER'S MILLS, VA., March 11, 1862. I send you a few hasty lines to tell you where we are, and to relieve the anxiety whic...

. . . but few of its heroic incidents find a chronicler.   In our interest in each new battle we forget the last; and, it is to be feared, ...

WASHINGTON, March 22. – It is asserted as the prevailing opinion that by this time the national flag floats over New Orleans, and that our ...

The following in an extract from a letter written at Fortress Monroe by one of the editors of the Baltimore American, a cool and practical ...

CHICAGO, March 18. – Special Washington dispatches to Times, 17th, says: Lieut. Worden continues to suffer much from the late engagement, t...

NEW YORK, March 18. – The steam frigate Roanoke which arrived to-day from Hampton Roads, brought 149 of the crew of the frigate Congress, a...

WASHINGTON, March 14. – SENATE. – The bill introduced by Mr. Hale, from the Committee on Naval Affairs to-day, provides for the constructio...