Today was published in St Louis papers (copied from the New York Tribune) a recent letter of mine to the Whig Committee of New York, in answ...

Clear and cool. It is reported that Grant is reinforcing Sherman, and that the latter has fallen back upon Goldsborough. This is not yet c...

Cloudy and sunshine; but little wind. Too ill to go to the department, and I get nothing new except what I read in the papers. Some of the e...

Slightly overcast, but calm and pleasant. I am better, after the worst attack for twenty years. The only medicine I took was blue mass—ten g...

Gloomy day—Raining all day without any intermission. Mail in this P. M. see no Northern papers and hear no news SOURCE: “Diary of John S. ...

I went to the supper table last night too sick to eat anything; left the table and laid down on a lounge until the hotel keeper could show m...

Rienzi.   Went through the usual routine of drill and camp life. Received my first mail since my arrival, consisting of two letters and a [M...

Went into quarters in the navy yard at Memphis. Quarters very good. Men under shelter. The machine shop is used as barracks for the regiment...

Before daylight. We have been turned out, for some purpose, and are standing in line with our guns and accoutrements on. Later. Are back i...

Bright and frosty. Yesterday we had no certain accounts of the movements of Sheridan. His force was said to be near Charlottesville—at Kes...

Rained all night; clearing away this morning. Warm. Nothing positive from Sherman, Grant, or Sheridan. The enemy's papers say Gen. Early...

Lebanon, Ky., June 6th, 1863. I did not go to Jamestown, as I intended. I called on the Provost Marshal for a pass and learned the program...

Cairo, Ill., June 10th, 1863. We are now three hundred and sixty-six miles from Lebanon, which place we left at 3 p. m. of Sunday, and rea...

SHERWOOD FOREST, CHARLES CITY CO., April 25, 1861. In these times you must write often, if only a few words. I have no letters to-day from...

SHERWOOD FOREST, May 4, 1861. If we find it best not to stay here, for health or other reasons, we will all go into the mountains. What wi...

The papers to-day contain a synopsis of what took place yesterday in the Cabinet on the subject of Reconstruction. I have no doubt that the ...

We are under marching orders again—ready to move at a minute's notice. The Ninth Army Corps is detached from the Army of the Potomac and...

RICHMOND, May 2, 1861. MY DEAR MRS GARDINER: I have but a moment ago received your letter from the hands of Mrs. Pegram, and regret to per...

Two letters to-day, and two papers, all from home. Seems as if I had been there for a visit. I wonder if my letters give them as much pleasu...

The subject of advertising came up. Dennison had made inquiry and ascertained that the Intelligencer had the largest circulation. Stanton sa...