Bright and frosty. From a published correspondence between Gens. Hampton and Sherman, on the subject of retaliatory executions, it is mentio...

Bright and pleasant, but indications of change. The papers contain no news from the armies, near or remote. But there was some alarm in the ...

The Seventh cross Broad River and go into camp near the doomed city. We can now see the great conflagration. Oh! how terrible those sweeping...

We arrive at Fayetteville, and while approaching, the advance was for awhile engaged in skirmishing with Wade Hampton's cavalry, that co...

The 4th Division take the advance this morning. The advance encounter Hampton's cavalry, but by a little skirmishing they are soon scatt...

By advancing this morning we discover that the rebels have all made their exit from South river. General Corse again takes the advance. The ...

Bright, frosty, beautiful, after a cold night. We have nothing more specific from the fight of Tuesday, when we learn another general was ki...

(Waiting at the depot). Going as usual to the department this morning, I found orders had been issued for our immediate removal to Richmond....

The adulation we receive in this city is enough to turn our heads completely. But for this dreadful suspense I believe it would. The most ap...

The dawning of a doubt is a troublesome thing, for if a doubt does not out and out destroy faith, it assuredly chastens it to an uncomfortab...

PETERSBURG, December 10 , 1864 — 11 o'clock. Hampton, after driving enemy's cavalry upon his infantry, on afternoon of 8th recro...

Clear and cold. Ice half an inch thick. Gen. Longstreet is again in the old lines on this side of the river. The reconnoissance, however, ...

PETERSBURG, December 8 , 1864 .           (Received 9.50.) Hon. J. A. SEDDON: Second and Fifth Corps of enemy, with Gregg's division ...

Rained hard in the night; clear and pleasant in the morning. A letter from John T. Bourne, St. Georges, Bermuda, says he has some 1800 bar...

Snowed two inches last night. Cloudy and damp this morning. Guns were heard down the river last night at a late hour. Perhaps it was nothi...

Cloudy and melting—snow vanishing rapidly. The thousand and one rumors of great achievements of Gen. Longstreet on the north side of the riv...

Near Petersburg, Va.,           October 25, 1864. I have a bright fire this morning. There is a nice chimney to my tent, which makes it al...

[St. Louis, March 24, 1866] I am sorry to hear that the President is likely to break with the party. It should not be, but Congress should...

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION                     OF THE MISSISSIPPI,           ST. Louis, Mo., April 2, 1866. Dear Brother: I know the rai...

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,           IN THE FIELD NEAR COLUMBIA, S.C., Feb. 16, 1865. Special Field Orders,} N...