Busy replying to letters from divers[e] office-seekers. They come by the dozens. SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor,  Diary and Lett...

A gentleman, it is said, some time ago hinted to the President that it was deemed quite settled that he would accept a renomination for his ...

Washington City , 14th June, 1846. My Dear Wife , . . . Most unexpectedly to me I received a note on Sunday morning from Genl. Harden 1...

The fine weather still continues. Just warm enough, and favorable for prisoners. Food now we get but once a day — not all we want, but thre...

Washington D.C. Mch. 27 ’61 D. V “Circumlocution” and delay prevents me going today so I write and will not telegraph. There being ...

The Northern papers say the Federals have taken Vicksburg; but we are incredulous. Yet we have no reliable intelligence from thence; and it...

All is quiet (before the storm) on the Rappahannock, Gen. Jackson's corps being some twenty miles lower down the river than Longstreet...

Washington, April 8,1861. Dear Sir , — I am as much in the dark as yourself in regard to the actions and designs of the present adminis...

New York Cars , January 27, 1862. My Dear Clifford , — I am going on to Washington by “telegraph,” and may stay a few days. You once ga...

To-day I paid a second visit to General Scott, who received me very kindly, and made many inquiries respecting the events in the Crimea and...

Called on the Attorney-General in relation to the appointment of a chaplain, — a singular case. When the Cumberland was sunk in March last,...

Descended into the barber's shop off the hall of the hotel; all the operators, men of color, mostly mulattoes, or yellow lads, good-loo...

The President revised one of my articles for the press to-day, suggesting some slight modifications, which, perhaps, improved it. It was no...

Mr. Barnwell says democracies lead to untruthfulness. To be always electioneering is to be always false; so both we and the Yankees are unr...

Only one of the Williamsburg volunteers came into the department proper; and he will make his way, for he is a flatterer. He told me he had...

RICHMOND. – For two weeks my diary has been a closed book. After another week at W., we went to the Presbyterian Parsonage, to join the ref...

We leave Montgomery day after to-morrow. The President goes to-day — but quietly — no one, not connected with the Government, to have infor...

A dispatch to the New York Tribune says: A foolish report has obtained currency to the effect that the tax bill creates 26,000 offices. Ev...