Navy Department             June 11 1862  My Dear Flag Officer  I have your notes, and today the box came, and the distribution shall be mad...

Confidential. Port Royal, Jany. 4, 62. My Dear Sir The Vanderbilt played us a scurvy trick yesterday, having gone off without our m...

Wabash, Port Royal Dec. 1, 6l.         My Dear Friend If I were ten times as occupied, that kind, noble hearty private letter of yo...

Confidential Wabash H Roads         Monday, 2 P.M. 28th Oct. My Dear Sir The very rough weather continued until eleven today, the...

Washington , May 25, 1862. Intelligence received this morning shows that General Banks has been attacked in force at Winchester and is ...

Only a sense of duty would have led me to relieve Du Pont and Wilkes. With D. my relations have been kind and pleasant, on my part confidin...

We have accounts of farther and extensive depredations by the Alabama. These depredations were near the Line, where the Department, in anti...

Saw Seward this morning respecting Wilkes. After talking over the subject, he said he cared nothing about Wilkes, that if he was removed he...

Sent a letter to the two naval committees on the subject of filling vacancies in the Naval School. Members of Congress are disposed to evad...

Our distress about Gibbes has been somewhat relieved by good news from Jimmy. The jolliest sailor letter from him came this morning, dated ...

Headquarters Second Brigade, Hilton Head, S. C. November 13th, 1861. My dear Mother: I am delighted, after several busy days, o...

Headquarters 2nd Brigade, Hilton Head , Nov. 9TH, 1861. My dear Mother: It is a long, long time since I have heard from home — near...

October 21st, 1861. My dear Mother: We are sailing rapidly down the Chesapeake, still in doubt as to our ultimate destination, but ex...

The steamer Vanderbilt reached here this a. m. with about 500 sick soldiers from Yorktown.   They are mostly typhoid and bilious fever cas...

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

Special to the Chicago Tribune. WASHINGTON, March 23. The States this evening says it is the impression in naval and military circles, th...

WASHINGTON, March 24. Col. Segur representative from the Accomac district, arrived here this evening, confirming the intelligence about...

Our skeleton in the closet has crumbled into dust, and nervous people inhabiting seacoast cities can sleep o’ nights hereafter without fear ...