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...

To-day northern papers are received containing Burnside's General order No. 38 , for the benefit of Ohio's devilish democracy. We de...

Private Navy Department             June 3d 1862  My Dear Flag Officer I have yours of the 25th May. I noticed in the papers the approach i...

Navy Department  May 12 1862  Flag Officer S. F. Dupont Port Royal. My Dear Sir: Now things are breaking up entirely in Virginia we are rea...

Confidential  Wabash, 31. May. 62.  My Dear Sir  I found the accumulation of men from Prizes so great and the Bienville's Engines so pre...

24 West 31st Street, Sunday, Jan. 4th, 1863. My own dear Son: I went to hear Mr. Prentiss this morning, and was deeply affected and...

The Dictator, turret vessel, was launched this A.M. in New York. This is one of a class of vessels that has become famous. She is of greatl...

On Steamer Henry Clay, off New Madrid, Mo., April 16, 1862. I finished my last in a great hurry, helped strike and load our tents and...

On the 27th of January the President issued his General War Order No. 1 , to those whose direction it was to be. He wrote it without any co...

We learn from Gen. Bragg that the enemy did not retire far on the 2d inst., but remain still in the vicinity of Murfreesborough. He says, h...

Commander Bankhead arrived this morning and brings particulars of the loss of the Monitor. Its weakness was in herself, where we had appreh...

We have, yesterday and to-day, broken accounts of a great fight for three days — and not yet terminated — at Murfreesborough, Tennessee. Al...

I embarked at 10 A.M. on board a small steamer to visit Drewry's Bluff on the James River, the scene of the repulse of the ironclads Mo...

Camp Near Winchester , March 13, 1862. At last! My prophecy of yesterday found its fulfilment rapidly enough. Half an hour after my let...

Boston , April 27, 1862. My Dear Motley : I saw Lowell day before yesterday, and asked him if he had written as you requested and as I ...

The enemy's gun-boats, Monitor, Galena, etc. are at Drewry's Bluff, eight miles below the city, shelling our batteries, and our bat...

The "Virginia" went out again to-day. The Federal Monitor would not meet her, but ran to Fortress Monroe, either for protection, ...

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...

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...