Relay House Station, on the Northern Central R. R. Just where that is I haven't yet found out. We stood up or laid down in the street fr...

Son of Robert Selden Garnett (q. v.), born in Essex county, Virginia; graduated from United States Military Academy, in 1841, as second lieu...

The Secretary of War has, it is stated issued an order stopping the release or parole of prisoners taken at Fort Donelson.   It is known tha...

Washington, D. C ., April 28,1861. General , — The General-in-Chief directs me to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 25th instan...

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

Confidential Wabash H Roads         Monday, 2 P.M. 28th Oct. My Dear Sir The very rough weather continued until eleven today, the...

Astor House, N.Y. Oct. 8, 61. Dear Mr. Fox I answered yr telegraph in some haste last evening and write to say that ten days from the...

Headquarters Del. Dept. Wilmington, Del., July 28th, 1863. My dear Mother: That I have not written you more punctually, the enclos...

Washington, April 9. 1862 Major-General McClellan. My Dear Sir. Your despatches complaining that you are not properly sustained, ...

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, September 20 , 1861 .   Maj. Gen. JOHN E. WOOL, Commanding, Fort Monroe, Va.: GENERAL: Your communicati...

Certain persons in Boston have an innate conviction that they can improve the administration of the Navy Department. They are never united ...

Cincinnati , November 12, 1862. Dear Uncle : — Your letter, also the apples, came safely to hand. The apples were finer than usual. The...

It is represented that the mob in New York is about subdued. Why it was permitted to continue so long and commit such excess has not been e...

A telegram last night informed me of the death of Admiral Foote. The information of the last few days made it a not unexpected event, yet t...

A cheerful bright morning and a sound sleep dispels the gloom resting on my views of the future. During the night a courier came to my tent...

PRIVATE. H’d Q’rs Dep't of New England, BosTON , Nov. 9th, 1861 MY DEAR SIR: Gen. Wool has resigned. Gen. Fremont must. Gen. Sc...

Here is a cheeky letter just received. MY DEAR SIR: Gen'l Wool has resigned. Gen'l Fr é mont must. Gen'l Scott has re...

GLENWOOD, May 5 , 1861 . Hon. S. CAMERON: MY DEAR SIR: Reached home last night by way of New York. You have no conception of the dep...

Bannister at Breakfast. Went to Department, and from Department with Deputation of Friends from Mt. Pleasant, O., and Wilmington, Del., to ...

Westwood, Hanover County . — I pass over the sad leave-taking of our kind friends in Clarke and Winchester. It was very sad, because we kne...