Allow me my Dear Girl to profit of the promise you have made me to correspond with me, and as I cannot bear the least shadow of formality between friends, I shall thro’ the whole of this letter endeavour to put away the remembrance of its being the first letter; I hope you will follow my example....

I Cornelia Jefferson Randolph, being of sound and disposing mind, do make, publish & declare this to be my last will and testament, writing the same wholly with my own hand. 1st My just debts, if I leave any, are to be paid. 2nd All my property of any & every kind, real, personal or mixed...

FROM THE EIGHTH REGIMENT. An Interesting Account of the Battle of Fredericktown. We received last evening a private letter from Major Jefferson, of the 8th Regiment, giving a very interesting account of the experiences of the Regiment since it left Camp Randall. Most of the facts have been...

PATRIOT WAR CORRESPONDENCE. From the Eighth Regiment. LETTER FROM MAJOR J. W. JEFFERSON. Camp—in the Swamp, near Sikestown, Mo.}March 9, 1862. Dear Brother:—We have been in the swamp just a week to-day. We were ordered away a week ago, with two days’ rations, to Charleston, Mo. As the road was in...

Eighth Regiment:—The companies of this regiment are now full, and are lettered as follows. The field officers and company officers deserve credit for the soldierly and orderly behaviour of the men, and they for the attention and promptness with which they attend to their duties. The field and...

Schedule I.—Inhabitants in Huntington Township, in the County of Ross, State of Ohio, enumerated by me, on the 7th day of July, 1870. William Weaver, Ass’t Marshal. Post Office Chillicothe.

Maddison Hemmings a man of Colour personally appearing in Court and producing satisfactory evidence of his freedom it is ordered that the following be entered as his register to wit aged 28 Years 5:73/8 Inches high light Complexion no scars or marks perceivable all of which is ordered to be...

The following persons of Color personally appearing in Court, and producing satisfactory evidence of their freedom the following is ordered to be enter’d as their Registers viz. Ludwell Coles, aged 21-years 5 feet 7 inches high. right fore finger off. Bright mulatto—no othe Eston Hemmings aged...

I hasten to drop you this line; I cannot write much, as I have no time or spirits. Since the 2nd of May up to yesterday (excepting two days I was in Jackson, Miss.,) I have been continually on the March and fighting the rebels. I had not until to-day changed my clothes or had a decent meal for...

Wisconsin Men Killed and Wounded at the Battle of Corinth. eighth regiment Field-Officers wounded—Lt. Col. Robbins, slight in abdomen; Maj. J. W. Jefferson, slight in shoulder.