Wish I had been taught to cook instead of how to play on the piano. A practical knowledge of the preparation of food products would stand me...

JUNE 17, 1850. This is Bunker-Hill day; but, though the cause of human liberty is intrusted to us now, there is not much of the Bunker-Hil...

Nothing very particularly interesting to-day in Cabinet. Stanton said he was to introduce some persons to the President and had appointed so...

February 20, Evening. Yesterday I visited Miss Murray's school on St. Helena Island. Miss Murray is assisted by Miss Towne and Miss Fo...

Cloudy and calm. All quiet. It was a false alarm yesterday evening. Nothing but some of the enemy's cavalry scouts were seen from the ...

CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, February 15, 1865. DEAR MOTHER: – We are jogging along in the usual style of a winter camp. The thing about us which...

The Expedition. The morning of February 6th found us in line on the parade ground, New York and Massachusetts shoulder to shoulder. Capt. ...

Prepared, for the President, by the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission. __________________ Abstract of Mr. John Eaton's Report. ...

WEST POINT , June 3, 1860. MY DEAR SISTER: . . . This is the anniversary of my arrival at West Point. Four years ago today, in the pride a...

 WEST POINT, October 28, 1860. MY DEAR LITTLE SISTER: Your letter was duly received; and, as it was full of information, it was read with ...

BATON ROUGE, LA., Feb. 16, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: We got here last evening; I soon found out Colonel Bragg, who is here living in the mess of...

February 25, 1857. DEAR SISTER: . . . I am glad to hear of your good health and assiduity to study, and that you are exerting every facult...

I visited Eureka Lawrence in Syracuse and we attended commencement at Hamilton College, Clinton, and saw there, James Tunnicliff and Stewart...

ALEXANDRIA, Jan. 21, 1860. DEAR DOCTOR: . . . I endorse you, herewith, a draft of an act for making the Seminary a Military Academy by law, ...

REPORT OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS JANUARY, 1860 . . . The Board of Supervisors has adopted every means in its power, by the publication and...

At the anniversary exercises, Rev. Samuel M. Hopkins of Auburn gave the address. I have graduated from Ontario Female Seminary after a five...

I recited “Scott and the Veteran” today at school, and Mary Field recited, “To Drum Beat and Heart Beat a Soldier Marches By”; Anna recited...

No war news to-day. But a letter, an impassioned one, from Gov. Vance, complains of outrages perpetrated by detached bodies of Confederate ...

Left camp after dinner. Dinner generally means noon, but our dinner-time on the march is quite irregular. Advanced unmolested till within a...