Son of Robert Selden Garnett (q. v.), born in Essex county, Virginia; graduated from United States Military Academy, in 1841, as second lieu...

Mr. Parker came last night, and is to be our chaplain. He is the one who preached for us at Hudson Camp Ground, and the one we asked to have...

Went into battery on the banks of the Potomac. In the mean time the first brigade of the first division went across the river to reconnoitre...

OFFICE ST. LOUIS RAILROAD COMPANY, St. Louis, April 25, 1861. DEAR BROTHER: Virginia's secession influences some six millions of peop...

Misty and damp, but warm. Guns heard down the river. On Friday, it seems, the enemy penetrated and held a portion of our works below Peter...

NEW CREEK, WEST VIRGINIA, April 16, 1865. DEAR UNCLE:— I am in receipt of yours of the 11th. My mountain expedition is given up. If I go a...

We had some talk at Cabinet-meeting to-day on the Rebel invasion. The President wants to believe there was a large force, and yet evidently...

CAMP SAXTON, BEAUFORT, S. C. December 27, 1862. . . . There is a little more of solid reality in this work of camp-life than I have ...

THOMAS THOMPSON ECKERT, President of the Western Union Telegraph Company, New York, was born April 23, 1825, in St. Clairsville, Ohio. He l...

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,                       Washington, July 16 , 1864 . General SHERMAN, Georgia, via Chattanooga: MY DEAR GE...

Rochester, Oct . 15, 1864. My Dear Mr. Tilton: I am obliged by your favor containing a copy of your recent speech in Latimer halL I h...

Washington, 28 August 1864 . . . I have been rather expecting to make another visit to the West in September, but it is rendered somewha...

Rochester, Oct. 15, 1864. My Dear Mr. Tilton: I am obliged by your favor containing a copy of your recent speech in Latimer hall. I h...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,              Camp near Harrison's Landing, Va., July 7 , 1862 . Mr. PRESIDENT: You have been fu...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,              Louisville, Ky., November 6 , 1861 . General L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General: S...

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

Headquarters, District of Cairo,          December 30, 1861. DEAR WASHBURNE: Yours of the 21st is at hand. I was no less astounded...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,           Saint Louis, February 7 , 1862 . Fort Henry was taken yesterday, with seventeen he...

(Private) New Orleans , February 26th, 1863. Dear Sir : The military movements lately in contemplation, have, I think, been given up....

Navy Department March 6” 1862. My dear Commodore: I had a long talk with McClellan to-day to see if he had any objections to givin...