Washington Tuesday Feb. 17th 1863. Today we have a real old “fashioned Snow Storm.” It has snowed all day. The weather is mild and the snow melted fast, but it is about seven inches deep tonight on a level, a greater body of snow than we have had this three or four years. The side [...]

17th. After breakfast fixed up a little and went to town to see Melissa and get second volume of “Life of Washington.” Received an excellent letter from the fair Rowena. In the P. M. and evening wrote to Ella Clark and a little to Fannie. I like Ella Clark very much. She is talented and [...]

Tuesday, 17th–Another all night rain, which continued all day today. Our camp is again becoming very muddy. Company E went on picket duty today. Our camp guard has been taken off.

FEBRUARY 17th.—Gen. Lee is not sending troops to Charleston. He is sending them here for the defense of Richmond, which is now supposed to be the point of attack, by land and by water, and on both sides of the James River. Well, they have striven to capture this city from every point of the [...]

February 17, 1863, The New York Herald Our Hilton Head Correspondence. HILTON HEAD, S.C., Feb. 11, 1863. There seems to have been some misunderstanding as to whom belongs the command of the reinforcements for this department which have arrived from North Carolina during the present month. The fact that the divisions of Generals Naglee and [...]

February 17, 1863, The New York Herald The official account of the recent attack on our fleet in Charleston harbor, from Admiral DuPont, which we publish today, establishes the fact pretty clearly that the blockade of that port was never broken. The statements of the officers of the blockading vessels, which Admiral DuPont encloses, deny [...]

February 17, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MERCURY.) RICHMOND, Friday, February 13. It is rumored that Mr. BOYCE has been making a speech in secret session advocating conciliation towards the Northwest. Yesterday, the House, in its anxiety to dispose of the question of impressments, refused to go into secret session in order that [...]