The Yazoo Pass expedition has ended and boats all back. Our return was monotonous, as we all felt dispirited at our failure. There was great...

Troops were arriving all night and to-day (Hood's division), and are proceeding Southward, per railroad, it is said for Tennessee, via ...

Nothing definite has transpired at Charleston, or if so, we have not received information of it yet. From the West, we have accounts...

Have a long dispatch from Admiral Porter relative to operations on the Mississippi, a cut at the Delta between Helena and the Yazoo on the ...

Executive Mansion, Washington, July 13, 1863. Major General Grant My Dear General I do not remember that you and I ever met p...

Young’s Point, Mississippi, March 10, 1863. NOW that Congress has adjourned, I have thought possible you might want to make a visit t...

THIRTY-SIXTH INFANTRY. Charles W. Kittredge is a New Englander, being born in Portland, Maine, on the 16th of January, 1826. His father, Jos...

FIRST COLONEL, THIRTY-THIRD INFANTRY. Samuel A. Rice, who received his death-wound at the battle of Jenkin's Ferry, is the most disting...

COLONEL, TWENTY-NINTH INFANTRY. Thomas Hart Benton, Jr., is a nephew of the celebrated American statesman and author, whose name, at his unc...

SECOND COLONEL, SEVENTEENTH INFANTRY. David B. Hillis is a native of Jefferson county, Indiana; and was born on the 25th day of July, 1825. ...

SECOND COLONEL, TENTH INFANTRY. William E. Small, the successor of Nicholas Perczel to the colonelcy of the 10th Iowa Infantry, is a native ...