JACKSON, William Hicks , soldier and capitalist, was born at Paris, Tenn., Oct. 1, 1835, son of Dr. Alexander and Mary W. (Hurt) Jackson. ...

HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION,                   MEMPHIS, TENN., August 11, 1862. Hon. S. P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury. SIR: Y...

WAR DEPARTMENT,           Richmond, February 8 , 1862 . General A. SIDNEY JOHNSTON, Bowling Green: SIR: The condition of your dep...

GENERAL ORDERS No. 112. HDQRS. 4TH DIV., DIST. OF WEST TENN.,         Bolivar, Tenn., October 8 , 1862 . Officers and soldiers o...

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Jackson, Tenn., March 7, 1863. The rumors from Vicksburg in the Tribune of the 5th are enough to make on...

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Jackson, Tenn., March 5, 1863. You certainly should not complain of my neglect, in writing no more than ...

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Jackson, Tenn., February 1, 1863. I'm on duty as “field officer of the day,” and have been temping a...

Camp Reed, Jackson, Tenn., January 22, 1863. I received your four-volume letter of the 5th, 12th, 13th inst. last night, and return y...

January 4, 1863. There I quit, for we received orders to get ready at once to march to Jackson, Tenn. The colonel ordered me to take ch...

Provost Marshal's Office, Waterford, Miss., December 30, 1862. Fifteen days outside the world and still we live. No papers of lat...

Lieut.-Gen. J. T. Jackson died at 3 P.M. yesterday. His remains will arrive in the city at 5 P.M. this afternoon. The flags are at half-mas...

There is a dispatch, unofficial, from the West, contradicting the news of the defeat of Van Dorn. On the Cumberland River, another dispatch...

We have nothing additional from Gen. Wise's expedition against Williamsburg; but it was deprecated by our people here, whose families a...

Gen. Van Dorn, it is reported, has captured or destroyed another gun-boat in the West. Night before last another riot was looked for in...

Yesterday the government seized the flour in the mills and warehouses; and now the price has risen from $30 to $40 per barrel. I wrote to t...

The successes in the West have been confirmed. Morgan captured 2000 and Van Dorn 1500 prisoners at Holly Springs. They likewise destroyed a...

Christmas Day.—Northern papers show that there is much distraction in the North; that both Seward and Chase, who had resigned their positio...

I took a walk before breakfast with Dr Quintard, a zealous Episcopal chaplain, who began life as a surgeon, which enables him to attend to ...

Early this morning I was at the depot. The superintendent suggested that I should send some one to Weldon in search of the trunk. He proffe...

At last we have definite accounts of the battle of Corinth, on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday last. We have been defeated, and fearful has b...