Senator Doolittle brought me last evening the rough draft of a proposed call for a national Union convention which he had prepared. Some of ...

After current business at the Cabinet was closed, I inquired of Seward if it was true that he had sent out a special official certificate of...

Went with G. W. Blunt to see the President this morning. Blunt wants to be Naval Officer and has been a true and earnest friend of the Navy ...

On Sunday, the 13th of July, 1862, President Lincoln invited me to accompany him in his carriage to the funeral of an infant child of Mr. St...

The last two days have been excessively warm. Thermometer on the north porch at 100 on each day. A slight breeze from the west makes this da...

There was no Cabinet-meeting yesterday, and labor in the Department was suspended on account of the funeral of Lieutenant-General Scott. S...

Bryson telegraphed yesterday that he had captured seven hundred Fenians crossing the river at Black Rock. I sent the telegram to the Preside...

At the Cabinet-meeting an hour or more was wasted in discussing a claim of Madame Bertinatti, a piece of favoritism in which the President h...

Montgomery Blair still persists that Seward is false to the President and that he and Stanton have an understanding. There are many strange ...

The President has finally issued a proclamation in regard to the Fenians. It should have appeared earlier, but Seward has counseled delay. S...

But little of importance at the Cabinet. I had some conversation with the President after adjournment, and in the evening McCulloch and myse...

Went to-day to Annapolis and examined the school and premises. Midshipmen had just completed the annual examination and were feeling merry a...

Not much of importance before the Cabinet. Some little attempt to converse on general subjects. Seward, McCulloch, and myself were first the...

Dined this evening at Tassara's, the Spanish Minister. The banquet was given in honor of Dulce, late Governor-General of Cuba. Seward an...

The House yesterday passed the Senate proposition to change the Constitution. It was before that body about two hours and was passed under t...

Nothing special at Cabinet. On Tuesday Seward submitted a correspondence between Schenck and Romero, the Mexican Minister. It was a very imp...

Have been some indisposed, with a good deal to do. Fox is about leaving, but is managing and contriving to get position and go abroad with é...

Ferry was elected Senator on the part of the House of Representatives of Connecticut by some thirty majority on Wednesday. In the Senate the...

Dixon informed me last evening that he was apprehensive Foster would leave his friends in the lurch. Brandegee and some others came on from ...

Captain S. P. Lee called on me to-day respecting his orders to Mare Island. The President on Saturday showed me an application which Lee had...