WATERLOO. We got under way yesterday evening and came up to Waterloo, the scene of our first battle, where we again tied up, to allow the me...

After a lapse of several days, I again resume my diary. I was taken sick on the 1st inst., and have been unable to note the incidents as the...

ON BOARD THE CONFEDERATE GUN BOAT DR. BEATTY,} February 19, 1863.} YESTERDAY the expedition for the "wiping out" of the Yankee G...

We have passed the danger for the present, and our boat is now steaming up Red river. The Indianola went up the Mississippi last night, and ...

About one o'clock we met the balance of our fleet coming down, and our boat turned her prow down stream to act in concert with them. The...

We have just had some sport. Five negroes hailed us, and on being asked if they wished to come aboard, answered "yes" with every d...

We had to stop and take on wood this morning, and that let the Indianola get a start on us, but we are in sight again. She is around a sharp...

12 o'clock p. m.—We came up with the enemy at half-past ten, and, after a spirited engagement of forty minutes, she surrendered to us un...

We took one hundred and five prisoners on board the Indianola, and a few are said to have gone down the river on a coal barge. The Beatty wa...

Yesterday we moved back into civilization, and took up quarters in a swamp near the broad Mississippi. Have a good camping-ground for this c...

Another week has passed over without any excitement, save what is occasioned by the preparations for the attack on the Indianola, and what i...

I this morning got hold of the pamphlet of Sir Vernon Harcourt, “Historicus,” and am delighted to find a coincidence of views between him a...

Storm nearly all night. Wind high all day but so unsteady that the sea remains comparatively smooth. Several of the officers and quite a no...

The snow is nearly a foot deep this morning, as it continued to fall all night, and is falling still. It grows warmer, however. But ...

The President is sick, and has not been in the Executive Office for three days. Gen. Toombs, resigned, has published a farewell address to ...

We have good news from Vicksburg to-day. The Queen of the West, lately captured by us, and another gunboat, attacked the Indianola, the iro...

Headquarters Div. Seventeenth Army Corps, Red River Expedition, Fort De Russey, Avoyelles County, Louosiana , March 17, 1864. My Dear...

CAMP NEAR VICKSBURG, February 26, 1863. I have yours of the 14th inst. and indeed I think all your letters have come somewhat in bunche...