Scalding heat during forenoon; heavy showers follow. Water is running through camp like a flood. Prisoners reported missing, rations suspend...

With Ellie to the Artists’ “Reception” in Dodworth’s Rooms; a vast crowd. Discovered Mrs. D. C. Murray and Mrs. John Weeks, General Dix, Wen...

House of Representatives not yet organized, no Speaker elected and government at a deadlock. Members spend their time during the interval be...

Received twenty-four boxes, saddles, bridles, halters, etc. Sent to Camp. Got a detail and put them all in a house and locked them up. We to...

COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 10, 1869. DEAR NORDHOFF: You are not the only "wretch" (I have adopted that good word from you) who har...

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...

Another night cramped up on the cars; another night of painful nipping at napping amidst the roar, the heat and jogging of the train. Everyb...

The air is purified by rain during the night. At first dawn we go to the stream for a bath. Knowing the difficulty to keep clear of lice and...

Newport News is a military post, and is of no importance in any other sense. There were no villages or cities here previous to the war. Now ...

Knapsack drill to-day,—something new to me, though I am told it is to take place every Sunday morning when in camp. As we were not here yest...

COLUMBUS, January 18, 1869. DEAR UNCLE:—I received yours enclosing draft for $551.68, proceeds of bond for which I am obliged. We are al...

Finished Les Miserables, Victor Hugo's grand work. What munificence of power! What eloquence! What strength! How sublime even its absurd...

HUDSON CAMP GROUNDS. I have enlisted! Joined the Army of Uncle Sam for three years, or the war, whichever may end first. Thirteen dollars pe...

Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS said, the closing remarks of the gentleman who had preceded him certainly invited a reply; but in consideration of the l...

Another pamphlet in Paris by La Guéronnière-i.e., by, or with the approval of, the Emperor has appeared. It narrows the temporal power and e...

Just finished the Duke of Buckingham's two volumes on the “ Courts and Cabinets of William IV and Victoria .” There is a curious note by...

Bright, and very warm. The President returned this morning, hastened hither by the perils environing the capital. An order is published ...

Took Thanksgiving dinner with Judge James at the Metropolitan Club. Governor Boutwell, a bright, pleasant-looking man, reminding me of Waite...

ST. CHARLES HOTEL, New Orleans, Monday, Oct. 15, 1860. DEAR BOYD: I arrived yesterday. This morning find that a part of our bedding has be...

A pleasant and “merry Christmas.” A good dinner. Captain Nye, Lieutenants Turner and Stanley, Dr. Webb, Majors Carey, Twenty-third, and McKo...