Members of the Agricultural Society and Citizens of Wisconsin : Agricultural Fairs are becoming an institution of the country; they are us...

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...