CONFIDENTIAL.] SAINT LOUIS, MO .,  [ December 2 , ] 1861 . Maj. Gen. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN, Commander-in- Chief, Washington, D.C.: ...

PHILADELPHIA, PA., April 29th, 1861 To Maj. [ sic ] Gen’l. B. F. BUTLER, Commanding Department of Annapolis GENERAL: I trust tha...

Generally went to town once during the day on business and to see Dan. The boy has seen trouble and I fear that it will be too much for him...

REDOUBT NO. 3, June 25, 1862 — 3 . 15 p.m. The enemy are making a desperate resistance to the advance of our picket lines. Kearny'...

Cincinnati , November 12, 1862. Dear Uncle : — Your letter, also the apples, came safely to hand. The apples were finer than usual. The...

Dined with Wise.   Met Hooker, Butterfield and Fox. Hooker was in fine flow. Before dinner we talked about Halleck and his connection with ...

But little at the Cabinet. Chase is quite dejected, and manifested some rather suppressed irritation towards Blair and Seward as he sat bes...

Had a telegram at midnight from Admiral Porter of captures on White River. Senator Foot yesterday resigned his seat on the Naval Commit...

There is a rumor that Fitz John Porter, whose trial of over forty days has interested the public, is found guilty and has been cashiered. A...

Accounts from Vicksburg are unfavorable and vague. I fear there has been mismanagement, but we must wait official reports. It is said that ...

This has been a heavy day. Last night Col. Baker was killed at Leesburg at the head of his Brigade. McClellan and the President talked sadl...

We had an early and special Cabinet-meeting, convened at 10 A.M. The subject was the Proclamation of to-morrow to emancipate the slaves in ...

HARRISON’S LANDING, 4th August, 1862. DEAR PET: I thank you for your kind, long letter. You extend me hope.   You suggest withdrawing m...

Camp Hicks, Near Frederick , December 29, 1861, Sunday Evening. We are drinking the lees of the old year! It is the penitent reminisc...

Maj. Garrard called to speak about North Carolina and Genl. Foster. Foster has now 3d. N. Y. Cav., and of Infantry, 17, 21 and 25 Mass, 9 N...

Good news at last. Four letters were received last night by way of Ashland. We learn that we certainly whipped the Yankees on the 31st of ...

Genl. and Mrs. Worthington breakfasted with me; — also Genl. McDowell and Mr. Haven[.] After Breakfast, Genl. McDowell read me the draf...

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

McDowell came over to-day and gave me a circumstancial account of the recent battles — attributing our ill success to the conduct of McClel...

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...