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

THE emancipation of slaves is virtually inaugurated. Gen. Butler, once a hard pro-slavery Democrat, takes the lead. Tempora mutantur et nos ...

RUMORS that the President, the administration, or whoever has it in his hands, is to take the offensive, make a demonstration on Virginia an...

THE ORGANIZATION. On the evening of August 7th, 1862, the 4th Battalion Infantry (New England Guard) held a meeting at their Armory, Boyls...

H.Q. Cav’y Escort, A. of P.                 Before Petersburg, August 5 , 1864 *           *           *           *           *     ...

I do not attempt to refute the very strong position in your letter concerning the views and the moral responsibility of the President. I ca...

How dreadful it is to see our best boys of all the State, slain, bleeding, worn out by ditching, bridging, dirt digging, and wheeling, and ...

UNOFFICIAL. Headquarters, 6th Regiment, M.V.M. – Capitol, WASHINGTON, April 30th, 1861 General B. F. BUTLER, ANNAPOLIS, MD. MY ...

London , 7 September, 1863. I have been taking a little vacation in Scotland, which must account to you for my failure earlier to notic...

What means Stanley 1 in N. C.? Don't they know whom they send? Do they wish to drive our N. E. troops out of the field and disgust man...

The whole trouble is directly traceable to McClellan, who took away to Yorktown an amount of troops beyond what he was authorized to do, so...

Lincoln chosen president by immense majorities in almost all the free States. Breckinridge comes next in electoral votes; then Bell, and Do...

A PROCLAMATION By The Governor And Commander-in-chief. Men of Massachusetts!!! The wiley and barbarous horde of traitors to the ...

To His Excellency John A. Andrew . Dear Sir : — Last week a deputation from my Philadelphia committee visited Washington to confer with ...

Boston, May 19,1862. H on . Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, Washington, D. C.: Sir, — I have this moment received a telegram in...

We landed in New York on Sunday evening [July 12], the day before the great draft riots there broke out. When the pilot came on board, the ...

Saturday afternoon. My Dear Fellow : I came to seize you and take you down to dine at our club — where we expect Motley — for your soul...

Dear ———: I followed the regiment through the streets, and tried hard at the Depot to find you and ——— at the cars last evening to shake ha...

[June 19, 1863.] Dear Stearns: Yours recd, and communicated to Sanborn. We congratulate you — your success seems full. I forward ...

April 30,1861. . . . I understand N. H. regiment is simply waiting for orders to move. Vt. is waiting by reason of some hitch merely — ...