A clear, but cool day. Again planted corn, the other having rotted. There is an unofficial report that one of our torpedo boats struck the...

A thick, heavy fog envelopes the bay this morning, so thick we cannot see half the boat’s length. In a little while the fog began to settl...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA, Fort Monroe, May 24 , 1861 . Lieutenant-General WINFIELD SCOTT: I have the honor to report my ...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA, May 27 , 1861 . SIR: The expedition (of which I gave you information in my former dispatch) to N...

Chase called on me this morning. Wishes a secret concerted attack on Richmond. Says Stanton will furnish 10,000 men. Told him we would do a...

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...

April 14, 1862. It is, of course, to be expected that there will be great differences of opinion among the friends of the Government ...

BALTIMORE, May 9. The special correspondent of the American sends the following relative to affairs in Hampton Roads and the Peninsula...

In the debate in the Senate, on the Stevens’ floating battery, Senator Pomeroy of Kansas expressed his opinion that it will soon be demonst...

(Tribune’s Dispatch.) NEW YORK, March 15. – The President nominated yesterday for Brigadier General, John Craig, also Robert C. Buchan...