EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, June 12 , 1863 . Hon. ERASTUS CORNING,   and others: GENTLEMEN: Your letter of May 19,* inclosing the...

Burton Harrison writes to General Preston that supreme anxiety reigns in Richmond. Oh, for one single port! If the Alabama had had in th...

Hope I may never know a raid except from hearsay. Mrs. Huger describes the one at Athens. The proudest and most timid of women were running...

When Lawrence handed me my husband's money (six hundred dollars it was) I said: “Now I am pretty sure you do not mean to go to the Yank...

All things are against us. Memphis gone. Mississippi fleet annihilated, and we hear it all as stolidly apathetic as if it were a story of t...

Mine is a painful, self-imposed task: but why write when I have nothing to chronicle but disaster? 1 So I read instead: First, Consuelo, t...

While Mr. Chesnut was in town I was at the Prestons. John Cochran and some other prisoners had asked to walk over the grounds, visit the Ha...

The death of this distinguished General in the late battle, excites universal sorrow. Appropriate resolutions were adopted by both Houses o...