CHICAGO, ILL.   Books were opened on this evening for the formation of a new regiment to be enlisted under the auspices of the Chicago Board...

The America brought me a note from. Mr. Adams. He quits Boston to-day. I may, therefore, look for him at farthest on the 15th inst. The Pr...

St. Louis, May 13, 1861. MY DEAR FRIEND: I have been intending for a long while to answer your last very kind letter. I suppose you still ...

The storm has broken upon us. The Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, just off the coast of South Carolina, and forced her on April 14 to ha...

There were a half-dozen good-looking members of the Seventh Regiment called upon the Commander-in-Chief of the Armies and Navies this after...

Marien Villa, V ö slau bei Wien, June 22, 1862. Darling Kleine Mary : Your letter of June 1 from Washington was most delightful. Ever...

An exceeding hot day. The sun pours on the broad sandy street of Charleston with immense power, and when the wind blows down the thoroughfa...

It is as though we woke up in a barrack. No! There is the distinction, that in the passages slaves are moving up and down with cups of iced...

The day was passed delightfully; the Bishop, his son, and daughter-in-law, all so kind, hospitable and agreeable. It amused me to see with ...

Early a few mornings since, I called on Gov. Wise, and informed him that Lincoln had called out 70,000 men. He opened his eyes very widely ...

President's proclamation calling out seventy-five thousand men. SOURCE: Edwin Everett Hale, Editor,  James Freeman Clarke: Auto...

Dearest Jim , — We are in for the fight at last and we will carry it thro' like men. One week ago to-day appeared the President'...

A year since Lincoln's Proclamation, in which he says that the object of the 75,000 men was to repossess the forts of the United States...

To The Loyal People of Wisconsin: For the first time in the history of this Federal Government, organized treason has manifested itself ...

Great events the last month. April 12 and 13, Fort Sumter [was] attacked and taken by the South Carolina troops by order of the Government ...

WASHINGTON, 16 May, 1861. DEAR SIR: Your letter by Mr. Magraw was received, and I designed to send an answer by him, but he left he...

Galena, April 21st, 1861. Dear Father: We are now in the midst of trying times when every one must be for or against his country,...

WASHINGTON, April 4. – Attorney General Bates has given his opinion that acts of January, and August, 1813, granting pensions for wounds or...

April 15, 1861 By the President of the United States A Proclamation. Whereas the laws of the United States have been for some time past, ...