Hot and dry. The booming of cannon heard yesterday evening was from one of our batteries below Drewry's Bluff. The enemy answered from...

Hot and dry. There are rumors of battles near Winchester and in Georgia. Mr. Benjamin writes the Secretary of War for a passport for who...

Hot and dry until 4 P.M. Gust, and 15 minutes' rain. Good for turnips. Forts Gaines and Powell are lost—the latter blown up. Gen. Maur...

Read speculations on Sherman's new move. Great hopes of his success. Rode into Winchester with Colonel Harris and Captain McKinley; call...

CEDAR CREEK, NEAR STRASBURG, August 16, 1864. DARLING: – We are still here observing the enemy and skirmishing with him daily. Yesterday w...