Haines Bluff, Miss.   We get no news from the outside world. Not even the New York Herald or Detroit Free Press, those blatant organs of sec...

My corps of sharpshooters marched in front of the line. Left camp at 4 this morning, and at daylight, as General Ewell and staff rode up to ...

Among my London acquaintances was Mr. Edward Ellis, a member of Parliament himself, and, I think, with one or two sons also in that body. H...

A batch of letters has been sent us from the provost marshal, disclosing a mass of fraud and intrigue on the part of a set of assuming men ...

I had a brief talk with Chase on certain financial matters, and gave him copies of some Rebel correspondence, — extracts of letters from yo...

Only Seward and myself were with the President at Cabinet-meeting. Seward is highly pleased with the course taken in regard to the captured...

Wrote Commodore Wilkes that his denial was not sufficiently explicit; that innocent parties were implicated in the publication of his lette...

We have a dispatch from Mississippi, stating that on Thursday last Grant demanded the surrender of Vicksburg in three days. He was answered...

I find that Fox, whom I authorized to telegraph to the Commandant of the Yards the other night to get off immediately vessels after the pi...

I this morning got hold of the pamphlet of Sir Vernon Harcourt, “Historicus,” and am delighted to find a coincidence of views between him a...

Met the President, Stanton, and Halleck at the War Department. Fox was with me. Neither Du Pont nor General Hunter has answered the Preside...

The case of Vallandigham, recently arrested by General Burnside, tried by court martial, convicted of something, and sentenced to Fort Warr...

The President called on me this morning with the basis of a dispatch which Lord Lyons proposed to send home. He had submitted it to Mr. Sew...

The last arrival from England brings Earl Russell's speech on American affairs. Its tone and views are less offensive than some things ...

After Cabinet-meeting walked over with Attorney-General Bates to his office. Had a very full talk with him concerning the question of captu...

To-day has been designated for a National Fast. I listened to a patriotic Christian discourse from my pastor, Mr. Pyne. Had a long, ...

Nothing at Cabinet, Seward and Chase absent. The President engaged in selecting provost marshals. Sumner called this evening at the Dep...

Finished and gave to the President my letter on the subject of mails on captured vessels. It has occupied almost every moment of my time fo...

Camp Green Meadows , July 29, 1862. Dear Mother : — I received a letter from you dated the 17th July — one from William dated 22d July,...

Little of importance at the Cabinet meeting. Seward left early. He seemed uneasy, and I thought was apprehensive I might bring up the subje...