A very busy day, and I am very indifferently well to discharge the mass of business; but got through with it before 5 P.m. Am surprised tha...

Mr. Sedgwick on Friday wished a pass to visit Stover, the convict in Fort Lafayette, and would get from him statements that would open frau...

At the Cabinet to-day the President read letters from certain Louisiana planters and from General Banks and others, urging the admission of...

Have not been well for the last two days, and am still indisposed, but cannot omit duties. The weather is oppressively warm. Friends think ...

Recd at Richmond May 7, 1863. By telegraph from Fredericksburg 7 Chancellorsville , May 7,1863. To His Excellency, President Davis :...

The week has been one of steady, incessant employment. I feel I have been overtasked and am much exhausted. Must have rest. Two rather ...

You have piped and I have not danced; you have called and I have not come, though my trunk has been packed for ten days. Now I am busy, bes...

Washington , 22 d December, 1862. My Dear Mr. Forbes , — I have shown your letter (copy) to Mr. Fessenden to several conservative gent...

Washington , 28th June, 1862. My Dear Mr. Forbes , — Well, by Jove, if this isn't the luckiest escape I ever had! I have been swea...

Boston, June 27,1862. My Dear Mr. Sedgwick , — I have not heard a word from you since I wrote you an abusive letter because you did no...

Boston , June 7, 1862. My Dear Mr. Sedgwick , — Cannot you get some ingenuous Hunker . . . to offer a little simple amendment to the em...

Berlin, Few Miles From Harper's Ferry, July 17, 1863. My dear sister: I received your letter of the 10th instant last night. Th...

June 2,1862. My Dear Mr. Sedgwick , — I see I forgot the 21stly, as the old parsons used to say, of my sermon; my amen to your emancipa...

Washington , 18 May, 1862. . . . I hope God will give his servant Abraham the grace to stand by his general and not let the border stat...