This morning Sherman's great army bow their heads in mournful silence over the startling news of the assassination. While we write we re...

About 10 a. m., the train having come back, we got on for Lynchburg. I had a flat car next to the engine, exposed to the sun, smoke and cind...

VIRGINIA GIRLS OF SWEET SIXTEEN DID NOT LOVE US. Weather hot; two more trains of Rebel wounded pass. Report that General Wadsworth and oth...

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

Wilderness, May 7, 1864. On the 5th we marched all day on the plank road from Orange Court House to this place. We got into a hard fight o...

At the Cabinet, the President read dispatches from General Grant, General Butler, General Sherman, and some others. I had previously seen s...

Near Rectorville, Va. November, 1862. My dear Mother: I received your half reproachful letter last night just after I had gone to b...

At the Cabinet council Seward expressed great apprehension of a break-up of the British Ministry. I see in the papers an intimation that sh...

. . . . I have not known the President so affected by a personal loss since the death of Baker, as by the death of General Wadsworth. While...

Who but Sheridan, as at Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 1864, just a month to a day after his splendid victory at Opequan Creek, Sept. 19, 1864,...

Nicolay leaves to-day for the Rocky Mountains. . .   Had a little talk with the President about Milroy. Says Halleck thinks Schenck never h...

Saturday morning, the 30th of August, I rode out into the country and turned in at the Soldiers' Home. The President’s horse was standi...

Vienna , December, 1862. My Dearest Little Mary : Your last letter was very pleasant to us — I have so high a respect for General Wadsw...

General Wadsworth, 1 Mr. Fenton, and others urgently insist on some changes in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, of masters who, they claim, are act...

August 17, 1862   . . . I must answer your letter a little. Neither you nor I understand war nor medicine ; but of medicine we know eno...

Union Defence Committee of the City of New York, No. 30 Pine Street, April 24, 1861. Sir , — At a meeting of the citizens of New York...

Governor Tod 1 called on me to-day. Is hopeful and earnest. Thinks delay is necessary. His confidence in McClellan is unimpaired, and in t...

At Department as usual. The President sent for me to meet the Secretary of War. Found he had nothing to talk about except the supply of an ...