Saturday evening, February 9, 1861. MY DEAR SIR: I communicated to Governor Pickens what passed between us as to Mr. Holt's letter, an...

Colonel Bolles and Eames have prepared an order for the President to sign for a mixed commission to try Semmes. I took it to the President t...

Not a very long session of the Cabinet. Some conversation in regard to the Rebel leaders led me to inquire whether it might not be best to p...

I have been kept for a week, and am still, in a state of great anxiety about the dangerous political excitements at home. The President has ...

At my special request the President made an order restoring General Hawley to duty, who had been mustered out of service. Had some conversat...

I have been absent during most of the month of September in my native State and among the scenes of my childhood and youth. Change is there....

A very warm day. Thermometer 90 and upward. Chief subject at the Cabinet was the offense and the disposition of J. Davis. The President, it ...

A very protracted session of the Cabinet. The chief subject was the Treasury regulations. There was unanimity, except McCulloch, who clings ...

The papers, and especially those of New York, are complaining of the court which is to try the assassins, and their assault is the more seve...

Intelligence of the evacuation of Petersburg and the capture of Richmond was received this A.M., and the city has been in an uproar through ...

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

The speeches of Jeff Davis betoken the close of the War. The rebellion is becoming exhausted, and I hope ere many months will be entirely su...

In compliance with the request of the Convention, we beg leave to make the following statement: On Saturday, the 8th of December, several...

7th Feb., 1861 Dr. V. I have determined to remain here a day or two longer at the earnest instigation of Aunt Minna — and as Charles ...

At church in the morning.   Good, plain sermon. Wished much to join in communion, but felt myself to subject to temptation to sin. After ch...

ST. Louis , Jan. 15, 1862. MY DEAR * * * * I am very sorry to hear that Mr. Stanton succeeds Mr. Cameron as Sect'y of War. I was ...

St Louis Jan 15th 1862 Dear Sir. I cannot repress the desire that I feel as an American citizen to thank you — which I do from my hea...

To-day I received a letter from Wm. N. Grover saying certain of his friends had agreed to press his name for Judge of the District Court, W...

WASHINGTON, January 29 , 1861 . To JAMES GLYNN, commanding the Macedonian; Capt. W. S. WALKER, commanding the Brooklyn, and other nav...

To-day we spent six hours deciding on Court Martials, the President, Judge Holt and I. I was amused at the eagerness with which the Presid...