WAR DEPARTMENT,           June 10 , 1863 . THOMAS A. SCOTT, Esq., Philadelphia, Pa.: Major-General Couch has accepted command of ...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, July 5 , 1863 .     (Received 11 a.m.) Major-General FRENCH: GENERAL: Major-General Meade desir...

SOLDIERS’ HOME, [ Washington, ] July 6 , 1863 — 7 p.m. Major-General HALLECK: I left the telegraph office a good deal dissatisf...

At the Cabinet council Seward expressed great apprehension of a break-up of the British Ministry. I see in the papers an intimation that sh...

Enemy on a spur of Blue Ridge, three and one-half miles west. At 7 A. M. we go out to attack. I am sent with [the] Twenty-third up a mounta...

. . . I dined to-night at Wormley’s with Hooker, Butterfield, Fox, Wise , and Col. Rush of Philad a . . . . Hooker says: — “Our war has de...

Nicolay leaves to-day for the Rocky Mountains. . .   Had a little talk with the President about Milroy. Says Halleck thinks Schenck never h...

Camp Near Sharpsburgh, Md., November 11, 1862. We had an interesting little reunion and supper at my tent last evening. Yesterday mor...

Camp Near Berlin, Maryland, July 17, 1863. My dear Miss Sedgwick: As you no doubt already know, from newspapers if not from letters...

Am vexed and disturbed by tidings from the squadron off Mobile. Preble, by sheer pusillanimous neglect, feebleness, and indecision, let the...

The tables were turned on Saturday, as we succeeded in driving a good many of them into the Potomac. Ten thousand Yankees crossed at Shephe...

Giesboro' Point , Feb. 24, '64.   I left Vienna, not from choice, but because I had to. I am sent over here to straighten out th...

March 30, 1865 I take advantage of a rainy morning to draw you a map and start a letter, to explain and recount the deeds of yester...

Headquarters Army Of Potomac March 30, 1864 I am pretty well, I thank you, and not so blue as when I came back the other time, perha...

Headquarters Army Of Potomac March 5, 1864 I found myself late and galloped four miles in about twenty minutes, only to find I had ...

Headquarters Armt Of Potomac February 24, '64 . . . I went yesterday to a review of the 2d Corps gotten up in honor of Governor S...

Headquarters Army Of Potomac December 10, '63 All the officers are inclined to be petulant and touchy, for they think that winter...

Headquarters Army Of Potomac Between The Rappahannock And Rapidan September 17, 1863 Having again got “home,” I find leisure and pa...

Headquarters Army Of The Potomac , March 29, 1864. Spencer 1 and the Whipple boys continue to enjoy themselves. Yesterday was a fine d...

Headquarters Army of The Potomac , March 24, 1864. I have been very busy to-day. The much-talked-of order for reorganizing the Army of ...