Very warm-clouds and sunshine, like April. Roger A. Pryor, who resigned his brigadiership, and has been acting as a scout (private), fell in...

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 pleasant; no rain last night, but the earth is saturated. No additional news from the army. It is said Gen. Bragg prevents news, ...

CITY POINT, VA., August 18 , 1864 . Major-General SHERMAN: Richmond papers of the 17th give it as the opinion of military men that ...

CITY POINT, VA , September 12 , 1864 .   Maj. Gen. W. T. SHERMAN, Commanding Military Division of the Mississippi: I send Lieutena...

CITY POINT, VA., August 26 , 1 864 — 2 . 30   p.m.                   (Received 12 . 10 a.m. 27 th.) Major-General SHERIDAN, Halltow...

Moved on to the 2nd Corps inside of the entrenchments. 6th Corps moved out too late yesterday to relieve us. Tore up several miles of the W...

This has been the warmest day yet this summer, and no sign of rain. We remained in line all day without intrenching when the enemy began to...

August 26, 1864 It may be laid down as a general principle, that it is a bad thing, in a musket or a man, to go off at half-cock. In so...

Charles Lawrence Peirson. who died at Boston, Jan. 23, 1920, was born in Salem, Jan. 15, 1834, the son of Dr. Abel Lawrence Peirson and Har...