It has been some weeks since I have opened this book. Such time as I could spare from exacting and oppressing current duties at the Departm...

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, D.C., June 14 , 1862 . Hon. GALUSHA A. GROW, Speaker of the House of Representatives: SIR: A res...

Colonel Washington called this morning but could not see the President. It would seem like a happy chance to have a General Washington ...

GLENWOOD, May 5 , 1861 . Hon. S. CAMERON: MY DEAR SIR: Reached home last night by way of New York. You have no conception of the dep...