Left Rapidan Station this morning for some point near Manassas. What a beautiful sight it is to see the long columns of troops fording the s...

Reached Gainsville, Fauquier, about 1 o'clock and as it was a good place for our horses we halted for the night. This village being only...

Washington D.C.      The old year passed away in gloom and sadness and the new one opens today without affording one hopeful ray of light in...

People were startled today to hear that the U.S. Forts and Arsenals at Savannah & Mobile had been taken possession of by the Revolutioni...

The weather has been moderate today M[ercury]. 44 — Streets muddy, and the crossings bad. Statements that troops have been sent to reinforce...

Mr Thompson has resigned and another day has passed in the greatest anxiety of all classes to hear from Charleston, but there is no news fro...

Yesterdays Telegraphic news was incorrect as to Maj Anderson. The “Inteligencer” this morning publishes a letter from an ex-Congressman from...

Cooler today, and quite windy, but did not freeze till night. Did not go to church today. Took care of the house while the rest of the famil...

The fact there exists an extensive conspiracy to break up the Government, one of long standing, is growing more apparent every day. The Sece...

United States troops are quietly being brought here and are now quartered in different parts of the City. The President is undoubtedly infor...

A regular snow storm today, snow four or five inches deep. Nothing important occurs from day to day here. But the Gov t  is posting troops i...

There are indications today that the Republicans are “coming down” from the Chicago Platform and that something like the Crittenden proposit...

A pleasant cold day, freezing in the shade, Streets muddy. Another Company of Flying Artillery arrived last night — 90 men & four “piece...

We camped within a few miles of Malvern Hill last night, and to-day our forces reoccupied the hill without any opposition, capturing some se...

WILLARD'S HOTEL, WASHINGTON,} February 12, 1858. } MY DEAR LYDIA—I was delighted last evening to receive your letter, with one from Lydi...

WASHINGTON, February 12, 1858. MY BELOVED DAUGHTER—I received your beautiful note from Cortland this morning, and was pleased with your af...

The story of yesterday's fight is all  bosh . There were no two hundred prisoners taken—no fifteen killed—no fight—not a rebel seen! Mun...

As in the mediæval epoch, and some time thereafter, anatomists and physiologists experimented on the living villeins, that is, on peasantry,...

This morning our Brigade Surgeon ordered me to leave the hospital for a few days, on account of my fatigue and prostration. He said that a r...

BINGHAMTON, March 1, 1857. MY DEAR JUDGE—Your favor of the 27th came duly to hand, and, as the merchants say, "contents noted." ...