AIKEN'S LANDING, April 5 , 1865 — 11 . 30 a.m.    (Received 2 p.m.) Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War: Little is kno...

Headquarters 6th Army Corps, Near Brandy Stat1on, January 27, 1864. Major Samuel Breck , Assistant Adjutant-General, Washington. ...

Maj. Andrews came to breakfast. Told him I had seen Secretary of War, who had assured me that Col. Crook's commission as Brigadier had ...

April 2, 1865 Last night was a busy one and a noisy. Some battery or other was playing the whole time, and, now and then, they would al...

March 31, 1865 The rain held up about ten A.M. and the sun once more shone. By this time our lines, running east and west, had been mov...

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...

The President, at Cabinet meeting, read Pope's Report, which strongly inculpates McClellan, Porter, Franklin and Griffin; and asked opi...

March 8, 1865 Yesterday, as I hinted in my last, we had a toot, of much duration. At ten A.M. the General got a telegraph (one of those...

City full of rumors and but little truth in any of them. Wilkes laid before me his plan for organizing the Potomac Flotilla. It is syste...

October 7, 1864 There is a certain General Benham, who commands the engineers at City Point, and was up about laying out some works. Ch...

At 8.30 in the morning, the General, with the combative Humphreys and all the Staff, rode towards the left, stopping of course at the irres...

September 29 Headquarters contented itself by getting up about half-past five, which was plenty early enough, as turned out. We rode do...

October 2, 1864 . . . The Washington boat was much in the style of the other — rather worse and more crowded, people and freight simila...

Headquarters Army Of The Potomac , March 29, 1865. To-day we have made a movement to our left, and I am to-night in new headquarters, h...

SPECIAL ORDERS.] HDQRS. ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, In the Field, April 9 , 1865 . Maj. Gen. John Gibbon, Bvt. Maj. Gen. Char...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, March 29 , 1865 .   (Received 9 . 15 p.m.) Lieut. Col. T. S. BOWERS: The two corps moved out, m...

June 18, 1864 A general attack was planned for an early hour, so Headquarters, which had lain down late, had scarce a chance to turn ov...

Headquarters Army Of The Potomac , October 3, 1864. I have not been able to write you for several days, as I have been so absorbed in o...

May 25, 1864 Burnside's Corps, hitherto a sort of fifth wheel, was today incorporated in the A. of P., and so put under Meade.   . ...

Headquarters Army Of Potomac 10 P.M. Sunday, May 15, 1864 Well, to be more or less under fire, for six days out of seven, is not very...