Made complimentary call with my family on the President at 11 A.M. By special request I went some fifteen minutes before the time specified,...

On Saturday evening I went with the President (whose health is suffering from excessive labor and care) and Preston King down the Potomac an...

Rear-Admiral Dahlgren returned this morning from Charleston. Two years since he left. Simultaneous with his return come tidings of the death...

The weather for several days has been exceedingly warm. For some time there have been complaints of mismanagement of affairs in the storekee...

There was yesterday no meeting of the Cabinet. This morning the members were notified to meet at twelve meridian. All were punctually on han...

There was a Cabinet-meeting last evening. The President had matured a scheme which he hoped would be successful in promoting peace. It was a...

On Wednesday evening Mrs. W. held a levee, which always disarranges. The season has thus far been one of gaiety. Parties have been numerous....

Have had no time the last ten eventful days to open this book; and am now in haste. In the Senate as well as in the House, there has been ...

The President yesterday made inquiry of me as to the disposition made of Farragut. Informed me that General Canby wanted him to remain at Mo...

Am harassed by the pressure on the enlistment question. A desire to enter the Navy to avoid the draft is extensive, and the local authoritie...

We have read without surprise, but not without indignation, the Proclamation of the President of the 8th of July, 1864 . The supporters ...

[From the Richmond Examiner (opp. Organ) Aug. 15.] Whatever may turn out to be the meaning of fact, the fact itself begins to shine out ...

The army news is interesting and as well received as the great loss of life will permit. Hancock has made a successful onset and captured E...

Senator Wilson to-day and Mr. Rice yesterday called in relation to the investigations which Olcott is prosecuting in Boston. They both were...