Clouds and sunshine; warm. Splendid rainbow last evening. We have nothing new in the papers from any quarter. Sheridan's position is n...

Our Third and Fourth Detachments are camped for the winter at Land's End, under the command of Lieutenant John M. West, and supported by...

The salt meat and horrid low country water have an injurious effect on our men, and many have been made sick. The heat is also quite oppress...

Last evening we received orders to be ready to move by sunrise this morning, and many of us took the liberty of going into the city to bid o...

Bright, beautiful, and warmer; but fire in the morning. The following dispatch from Gen. Lee was received by Gen. Bragg to-day and sent to...

A lovely spring day—bright, warm, and calm. There is nothing new, only the burning of houses, mills, etc. on the York River by the Yankees...

RUNAWAY — $200 Reward will be given if taken in the state, and $500 if taken out of the state. Run away, my negro boy JOE, sometimes ...

Our forces are gathering in considerable strength at Hampton Roads. Besides the naval vessels there are in the Roads over two hundred army ...

Gen. Lee writes (a few days since), from Brandy Station, that Meade seems determined to advance again; that troops are going up the Potomac...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, May 4 , 1862 — 9 a.m. (Received 4.15 p.m.) Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: We have the r...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA, May 29 , 1861 . SIR : The expedition to Newport News, of which I spoke in my last, eight miles f...

We have nothing additional from Vicksburg or from the Potomac, but there is a rumor of fighting near Leesburg. The first installment of...

The message of Gov. Seymour, of New York, if I am not mistaken in its import and purposes, will have a distracting effect on the subjugatio...

Camp near Mouth East River, Giles County. — Rained violently last night; not a bad morning, however. Rumors of defeat of General Milroy up ...

A dispatch from Gen. G. W. Smith, last night, says we have repulsed the enemy from Kinston, N. C., but a dispatch this morning says a caval...

There are rumors of Abolition gun-boats in the York and James Rivers. A battery of long range guns was sent down yesterday. It is sa...

We are living in fear of a Yankee raid. They have a large force on York River, and are continually sending parties up the Pamunky and Matta...

Camp Head Of York River, May 8, 1862. My dear sister: I wrote you a line yesterday as I was about embarking at Yorktown to go up th...

Mr. ____ has returned. Yesterday evening we rode to the parade-ground in Alexandria; it was a beautiful but sad sight. How many of those yo...

Washington is full of exciting, vague, and absurd rumors. There is some cause for it. Our great army comes retreating to the banks of the P...