Seward read the dispatches which he proposed to send to Mr. Motley,—the first, protesting against the sending of troops to Mexico by the Aus...

Morning at Stevensburg, Va.—Taking a southwest direction we passed northeast of Stony Mountain and came in conjunction with other marching c...

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSOURI,           ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 20, 1868. Dear Brother: *           *           *          ...

Camp near Orange Court House, Va . , August 10, 1863. All is quiet here now. When two armies have a great battle both sides are so cripple...

Camp near Orange Court House, Va., September 27, 1863. We had nine more military executions in our division yesterday—one man from Thomas&...

Camp near Rappahannock River, Culpeper County, Va., October 20, 1863. This is the first chance I have had to write to you since we started o...

VICKSBURG, MISS., July 11, 1863.           Maj. Gen. WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, Comdg. Expedition: DEAR GENERAL: Dispatches just received from Gen...

April-like day, but no rain; clouds, and sunshine, and warm. About 2 P.M. the Secretary received a dispatch stating that the enemy had app...

Bright, pleasant day. The city is full of generals—Lee and his son (the one just returned from captivity), Longstreet, Whiting, Wise, Hoke, ...

A slight snow on the ground this morning—but bright and cool. Last night, after I had retired to bed, we heard a brisk cannonading, and voll...

Bright and pleasant. Intelligence from the West is of an interesting character. The column of Federal cavalry from Memphis, destined to co-o...

Only four of us with the President today. Mr. Fessenden has gone to Maine. Seward and Stanton were absent when the rest were there. I was ...

CULPEPER COURT-HOUSE, VA.,                         April 9 , 1864 . Maj. Gen. G. G. MEADE, Commanding Army of the Potomac: For i...

WAR DEPARTMENT,                      May 9 , 1864—3.20 p.m. Major-General BUTLER: A bearer of dispatches from General Meade has jus...

CITY POINT, VA ., July 7 , 1864 — 8 a.m.           (Received 6 p.m.) A change in the commander of the Army of the Potomac now seem...

A flag of truce boat came up, but no one on board was authorized to negotiate for an exchange of prisoners but Gen. Butler, outlawed. It re...

College Point, L. I., July 30, 1864. Hon. S. Foot: Dear Senator: — I am extremely anxious that my friends in my native State should no...

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 15 , 1864 — 10 p.m. Brig. Gen. J. A. RAWLINS: We have no report from Wright since this morning, nor from the...

H.Q. Cav'y Escort, A. of P.                  Before Petersburg, August 27, 1864 *           *           *           *           * ...

WASHINGTON, April 14 , 1865 . General GEORGE G. MEADE: The President was assassinated at Ford's Theater at 10.30 to-night and ca...