The President tells me that Dennison did not intend to leave, — that his purpose was to maintain his party relations but conform to the Admi...

Senator Morgan spent last evening at my house. Our conversation was chiefly on public affairs, but there was not that unreserved and cordial...

No very striking matters in Cabinet. Seward read a long dispatch to Mr. Adams. Stanton excepted to the mention of our domestic affairs in su...

The Radicals held a caucus last evening at the Capitol, to determine in relation to their future course, and also in regard to the adjournme...

Senator Doolittle took tea with me. He wished me to go with him to the President, where some friends were to assemble to consider and decide...

We had not a protracted Cabinet meeting nor any specially interesting topic. I had thought the subject of the call for the convention, which...

Had a long talk this afternoon with the President on the condition of affairs and especially in regard to the proposed national convention. ...

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

At the Cabinet-meeting word was received of the death of Lieutenant-General Scott at West Point at the advanced age of eighty. He was great ...

Some slight indisposition and pressing duties have postponed my daily remarks. The President had expressed to me his intention to go to Rich...

As I went into the President's office this morning and was passing him to enter the library, he took occasion to express his satisfactio...

Met General Thomas of the Army of the Tennessee at the President's. He has a fine, soldierly appearance, and my impressions are that he ...

Admiral Dahlgren writes me that Sherman is with him in his cabin (14th inst.). Mr. Chandler, 1 employed by the Department to attend to al...

Wrote Gilpin, District Attorney at Philadelphia, in answer to his private letter as to prosecution for frauds in Philadelphia Navy Yard. T...

The President is greatly importuned and pressed by cunning intrigues just at this time. Thurlow Weed and Raymond are abusing his confidence ...

The speeches of Jeff Davis betoken the close of the War. The rebellion is becoming exhausted, and I hope ere many months will be entirely su...

New York City is shouting for McClellan, and there is a forced effort elsewhere to get a favorable response to the almost traitorous proceed...

Mr. Blair returned this morning from Concord. He had, I have little doubt, been sent for, partly to see and influence me. I am not sufficien...

 Had an interesting half-hour talk with J. M. Forbes, a sensible man and true patriot. He wishes the President to make the issue before the ...

Most of the vessels sent out in pursuit of the Tallahassee have returned, and with scarcely an exception the commanders have proved themselv...