The President is naturally enough a good deal bantered about his habit of story-telling. Dr. Hovey, of Dansville, N. Y., called at the W...

One day when Mr. Bates was remonstrating with Mr. Lincoln against the appointment of some indifferent lawyer to a place of judicial importan...

A Virginia farmer, not over patriotic, probably, importuned the President to use his influence to have a claim for damage done to his farm b...

The story will be remembered, perhaps, of Mr. Lincoln’s reply to a Springfield (Ill.) clergyman, who asked him what was to be his policy on...

Senator Grimes made a very good speech to-day in the Senate on naval affairs, in which he introduced a letter from Donald McKay, the eminen...

Congress reassembled after a fortnight's vacation, or rather were to have assembled but there was not a quorum in either house. At the ...

Camp Near Falmouth, Va. Dec. 16th, 1862. My dear Mother: Back again once more in the old camp, sound as a dollar. Would that 10,000...

Lincoln’s Sense of Humor by Richard Carwardine Abraham Lincoln was the first president to make storytelling, jokes, and laughter ...

I shall not soon forget the events of the night of this day.   Our news from Chattanooga was more hopeful – but it was evident that Rosecr...

Much of the time at the Cabinet meeting was consumed in endeavoring to make it appear that one Cuniston, tried and condemned as a spy, was ...

At McMahan's our small colonel, Paul Hayne's son, came into my room. To amuse the child I gave him a photograph album to look over....

I was honored to-day by visits from a great number of Members of Congress, journalists, and others. Judging from the expressions of most of...

. . . lately called to see the President.   After the usual greetings, etc., ‘Lincoln,’ said he, ‘when you turned out Cameron why didn’t yo...