The Cabinet-meeting was full. Stanton submitted an application from Judge Campbell, asking to be released from imprisonment in Pulaski. Sewa...

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

A   very wet day. Was to have visited Admiral Dahlgren on the Pawnee with the President, but, the day being inclement and the President some...

A rainy day. We were to have had an excursion to the Pawnee, the flag-ship of Admiral Dahlgren, but the weather has prevented. I read to t...

 I went with Postmaster-General Dennison and a portion of our families and a few friends on board the Santiago de Cuba, one of our fast vess...

On the morning of Sunday, the 27th [sic], 1 we were off Charleston Bar, waiting the tide and a pilot. Admiral Dahlgren came down in a tug a...

 Mrs. Welles, who had not left her bed after retiring on the 24th on the lower Potomac, was brought upon deck and had a bed under the awning...

[W]e proceeded up the Savannah River, and, on reaching the city, were provided with carriages to examine it and the environs. Savannah has s...

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...

The contractors for the Puritan and Dictator are in trouble and embarrassed. Congress has extended to them relief, contingent on my action. ...

The President was not at his house to-day. Mr. Bates had said to me that the President told him there was no special business. Nevertheless,...

Admiral Farragut writes that his health is giving way under the great labor imposed and long-continued service in the Gulf and the Caribbean...