MCCLELLAN is now all-powerful, and refuses to divide the army into corps. Thus much for his brains and for his consistency. The message — ...

FORT MOULTRIE, S. C., May 23, 1843. My Dear Brother: *           *           *           *           *           *           *          ...

FORT MOULTRIE, S.C., Jan. 19, 1844. My Dear  Brother : It was about the middle of November, and on one of those mornings so peculiar to yo...

FORT MOULTRIE, S.C., Oct. 24, 1844. My Dear Brother: . . . What in the devil are you doing? Stump speaking! I really thought you were too...

SMITHVILLE, N.C., April 4, 1845. My Dear  Brother : I am going to return to Charleston to-night by sea, and expect to be turned wrong side...

AUGUSTA ARSENAL, GA., Aug. 29, 1845. My Dear Brother: *           *           *           *           *           *           *         ...

FORT MOULTRIE, S.C., Jan. 4, 1846. My Dear  Brother : I had to go to North Carolina on a wedding tour at Christmas time, and as soon as I...

You may be surprised to learn that in a few days I will go to New York City and then to some place to me still unknown. Tell mother that she...

The days are so much alike I have given up noting the doings of each as it comes. Since February 1st our meeting-house tent has been repaire...

JUST at night, as I had finished the above, the Laurel Hill, the boat  that  brought us from quarantine to Chalmette, tied up in front of ca...

In the hospital after all. Dr. Andrus came last night to our tent and ordered me into the house I spoke of. I had a warm, dry bed and a good...

Captain Bostwick came to see me to-day. Two men died last night, one in the hospital and the other in his tent. I don't feel as well to-...

Think I am really better to-day. If I keep on I'll soon be out of this and with the boys again. But they all come in to see the sick as ...

I have been very sick. This is the first time I have felt able to make a mark with a pencil. I was taken in the night, after the day I thoug...

Am very weak yet. A little tires me out. A letter from Herman just a month old. Coon died last night, but we none of us knew it till we saw ...

Getting better fast, but can't write much yet. SOURCE:  Lawrence Van Alstyne,  Diary of an Enlisted Man , p. 89

Was carried back into the house to-day and put among the convalescents. I must be getting well, but it is slow. Most all the time I was wors...

Had a wash and a shave and am tired out. The regiment has marching orders. Wish I was out of this to go with them. SOURCE:  Lawrence Van A...

Gunboats are said to be going up the river every day. I wonder what's up. SOURCE:  Lawrence Van Alstyne,  Diary of an Enlisted Man , p...

Don't feel quite so smart as I did. This getting well is slow business. SOURCE:  Lawrence Van Alstyne,  Diary of an Enlisted Man , p. ...

The boys say they are ready to march, but don't get any further orders. Letters from home. Have written to father wish I could see him. ...

Not feeling so good these last few days. SOURCE:  Lawrence Van Alstyne,  Diary of an Enlisted Man , p. 90

Have my pants on and have made up my bed. If this keeps on I'll soon be able to hunt for something to eat. SOURCE:  Lawrence Van Alsty...

Ben Crowther is awful sick. He is a fine fellow and we hate to lose him. He is of better stuff than the average of us. I wish I could kill h...

Last night I got a little box from home. That I may never forget a single thing in it I'll put them right down now. On top was a New Yor...

Too much excitement yesterday and I feel like two weeks ago. The doctor says I will have these setbacks though and it is only a part of the ...

Poor Crowthers died very peacefully about noon to-day. His cot is next mine and he seemed like one of the family to me. The company has unde...

Orderly Holmes is very sick. His discharge is under his pillow (or knapsack). He lies in a room next to this and I can hear him talk, giving...

This is a hard spot to get well in. Two poor fellows are near their end to all appearances, and it is trying to hear them rave about home an...

The finest morning yet. The air is just right. The birds are singing, the sun shining bright and everything seems just right for getting wel...

Have been downstairs. My legs just made out to get me there and back. Will they ever get strong again? But I am getting there, slow but sure...

Another fine day, and another trip downstairs. My legs behaved better this time. Am not near so tired. Now that I can write without getting ...

Had a thunder shower in the night and some sharp lightning. Was not allowed to go out to-day on account of the ground being wet. We hear of ...

We are having, I think, as warm weather as I have ever experienced. The papers have a curt letter from Speed resigning his office. He has al...

Still excessively warm. Not much at the Cabinet to note. Stanton read a strange dispatch from Gen. George H. Thomas at Nashville, stating th...

The President tells me that Dennison did not intend to leave, — that his purpose was to maintain his party relations but conform to the Admi...

The Democrats have had a large meeting at Reading in Pennsylvania. Mr. Blair is reported to have made an ultra speech, denouncing the intrig...

I learn that the President to-day sent in the nomination of Mr. Stanbery for Attorney-General. He made no mention of it in Cabinet. There is...

The Senate has altered and passed the resolution and preamble concerning the right of Tennessee to be represented, Congress, or the Radical ...

Had a discussion last evening with McCulloch and Doolittle in the council-room, the President being by, respecting the preamble and resoluti...

Busy through the day until dark on the subject of promotions, except for a short time at the Cabinet. The promotions will, unavoidably, give...

 I, early this morning, took to the President the carefully prepared list of promotions. He did not fully understand the subject and was dis...

Congress has agreed to adjourn on Saturday. God speed them home. Still there is much important business undone. League Island has not been a...

The naval nominations were confirmed as submitted. I have labored hard to have as little wrong committed as possible, and yet I fear injusti...

Went to the Capitol a little before ten this A.M. Apprehended I should be late, for we had agreed yesterday in Cabinet to meet in the Presid...

Senator Doolittle called and wished me to accompany him to the President to meet General Dix, and we sent to McCulloch to go there also. The...

BEAUREGARD, PIERRE GUSTAVE TOUTANT (bō-re-gär'), an American military officer, born in St. Martin's parish, La., May 28, 1818; was g...

ADAMS, James Hopkins, statesman, b. in South Carolina about 1811; d. near Columbia, S. C., 27 July, 1861. He was graduated at Yale in 1831. ...

MEANS, John Hugh, governor of South Carolina, was born at Hampton, Fairfield district, S.C., Aug. 18, 1812, son of Thomas and Sarah Means. H...

International Law — Naturalized Citizens — Their rights as such, against the claims of their Native Country — The Mo. Democrat of June 10 ...

[Rights of Naturalized Citizens Abroad.   Secretary Cass renders the following decision, in answer to a communication of a naturalized c...