For some weeks I have been unable to note down occurrences daily. On the evening of the election, the 8th, I went to the War Department abou...

The President is greatly importuned and pressed by cunning intrigues just at this time. Thurlow Weed and Raymond are abusing his confidence ...

Washington, 28 August 1864 . . . I have been rather expecting to make another visit to the West in September, but it is rendered somewha...

Peace, on the basis of a restored Union, is a consummation so devoutly to be wished that the people will watch with intense interest the fai...

The New York World , in commenting on the Niagra correspondence, closes an article as follows: We are convinced that there is no sinceri...

The Copperhead press out west bloviated in favor of peace, and, and endorsed the Peace Commissioners and the peace programme of the loafin...

Washington, 25 August 1864 Hell is to pay.   The N. Y. politicians have got a stampede on that is about to swamp everything.   Raymond ...

The great battle which is to arrest rebellion, or to make it a power in the land, is no longer distant or doubtful. McDowell has completed ...

As the young gentleman of color, to whom I had given egregious ransom as well as an advance of wages, did not appear this morning, I was, a...

A very busy day, and I am very indifferently well to discharge the mass of business; but got through with it before 5 P.m. Am surprised tha...

To night, I was taken by surprise in hearing that Mr. Cameron sec. of War, has resigned, and goes to Russia, in lieu of Cash: M. Clay 26 —...

Paris 26 July 1865 May Dear Mr. Stanton I received your kind note from Wm Moore just as I left the Hotel in New York for the Steamer....

Executive Mansion, Washington, 31 March, 1865. MY DEAR CHARLES: I have been a little neglectful of my duties to you lately. I have...

Paris, Sept. 7, 1865. MY DEAR RHODES: I have just received your lively letter of the last of August from which I infer that the agony...

. . . When the President came in, he called Blair and Banks into his office, meeting them in the hall. They immediately began to tal...

I started for Grant's headquarters. We left the Navy Yard at two o'clock in the afternoon. The party consisted of Fox, Dyer, Wise, ...

At the meeting of the Cabinet to-day the President took out a paper from his desk, and said:— “Gentlemen, do you remember last summer I ask...

The house has been still and almost deserted to-day. Everybody in Washington, not at home voting, seems ashamed of it and stays away from t...

Nov. 7, 1864. I have nothing to say till the day after to-morrow. God save the Republic! SOURCES: Clara B. Hay,  Letters of John Ha...

Executive Mansion. Washington, Oct. 13, 1864. MY DEAR NICOLAY: I suppose you are happy enough over the elections to do without let...