Wolcott Gibbs called by appointment tonight. We microscopized energetically, and the performances terminated with a very modest supper of ch...

ON BOARD THE "GEN. BUELL,"           OHIO RIVER, April 1, 1864. HAVING been duly commissioned and ordered to “report immediately...

We had a fine time for a change last night. There was one solitary pudding left over from our Thanksgiving dinner. The boys found out that t...

Was again made "officer of the day." Have ridden on horseback about twenty-five miles today and feel very tired. Had a scare in ca...

HOSPITAL LIFE. Thus far I have been unable to discover any charms in hospital life. With fair health the active camp is far preferable. Th...

Mr. Lincoln, in his happier moments, is not always reminded of a “little story,” but often indulges in a veritable joke.   One of the latest...

Dark and gloomy. At 10 o'clock Gov. Vance, of North Carolina, telegraphed the Secretary of War, asking if anything additional had been ...

Boston , Jan. 16th, 1853. My Dear Sumner : — You never yet performed the friendly office of criticizing anything of mine that I did not...

February 6, 1862 . . . Always after writing anything I immediately come upon something which ought to have gone into it. Last Sunday I ...

One mile South of Ackworth, June 16, 1864. We moved through town and arrived here this p. m. Ackworth is a nice little town. All the “ ...

Inspection of division by Major Otis. Undress parade. Col. Purington took leave of the boys. Given three cheers. Ordered out on two days...

Am perplexed about charges and specifications against Wilkes. His conduct has been bad, — such as will perhaps break him. I think it might,...

Lincoln’s Sense of Humor by Richard Carwardine Abraham Lincoln was the first president to make storytelling, jokes, and laughter ...

Received to-day the first despatches from Grant. The President thinks very highly of what Grant has done. He was talking about it to-da...

Camp Northwest Of Brookville, Maryland, September 10, 1862. Dearest : — We are now about twenty-five or thirty miles northwest of Was...

That General Smith was a joker was conceded by everybody, our friends, the enemy, as well as the union army. When we were in Alexandria I w...

I was awoke at daylight by Moses complaining that his valuable trunk, containing much public money, had been stolen from our tent whilst w...

Monday Dr. Woods and Mr. Van Ingen stopped, just from their regiment in Kentucky and on their way home, and I begged so hard to see the Doc...

It would be only the absurd tableaux I agreed to, with plenty of fun, and nothing more. So I tried to be merry and content, and so I should...

Yesterday was a day of novel sensations to me. First came a letter from mother announcing her determination to return home, and telling us ...