Clear and warm-the earth refreshed. Gen. Johnston telegraphs to Gen. Bragg to have the United States prisoners at Andersonville “distributed...

 SEMINARY OF LEARNING, March 1, 1860. SIR: I send you herewith the resignation concerning which I have already troubled you too much. Had ...

WE LEAVE VIRGINIA. NEWBERN. On the 5th of this month the 23d and 25th Massachusetts embarked on the steamer Winona, from Bermuda Hundred b...

But little at the Cabinet of special importance. Governor Dennison, the new Postmaster-General, for the first time took his seat. Late in ...

Soldier's Retreat, near Natchez, Aug. 23d, 1823. Since my last letter, my dear Col. Brush, I have been a refugee from Natchez, wher...

New Orleans , September 9th, 1862. Dear Sir : The newspapers which I send, will give you most of the local news. One Regiment of th...

New Orleans , Aug. 26th, 1862. Dear Sir : The troops at Baton Rouge have evacuated the place, without destroying it, and are now joined...

New Orleans , July 19th, 1862. Dear Sir : I venture to refer to the name of J. L. Riddell (formerly Confederate Postmaster) because he ...

Lagrange, Tenn., June 19, 1863. The general and Sam went to Memphis yesterday to visit General Hurlbut, and the major and I have charge...

New Bedford , August 26, 1855. Mr. STILL:— I avail my self to write you thes few lines hopeing they may find you and your family well a...

Sheridan restlessly urged the men across a small ravine opposite where he sat, his eyes wandering occasionally everywhere over the large op...

Cholera morbus all night, was 6 cases in Regt. quite weak today. Yellow fever in Matamorass. awful hot & poor water. SOURCE: “Diary...

It seems from the opinions of the Army officers who have expressed themselves on the subject – all within Fort Sumter, together with Genera...

News from the North indicate that in Europe all expectation of a restoration of the Union is at an end; and the probability is that we shal...

Lincoln's proclamation was the subject of discussion in the Senate yesterday. Some of the gravest of our senators favor the raising of ...

In the afternoon I went with Mr. Porcher Miles to visit a small farm and plantation, some miles from the city, belonging to Mr. Crafts. Our...

From the news brought by one or two persons who managed to reach here yesterday, I am more uneasy about mother and the girls. A gentleman t...

Headquarters Post Of Mobile, Mobile, Ala ., Aug. 11, 1865. The chronic complaint with which my system is poisoned, will never be erad...

Headquarters District Of South Alabama, Fort Gaines , Ala., April 19, 1865. My Dear Daughter Bettie: I have just returned from Mobi...

No news of importance. The weather continues hot and sultry. Many more of the sick are being sent home on furloughs or taken to hospitals. ...