MANSFIELD, OHIO, Aug. 9, 1867. Dear Brother : . . . It is now becoming extremely important to know precisely what Grant wants in connectio...

The elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Iowa come in favorable, though the vote and the majorities are reduced from the Presidential electi...

ALEXANDRIA, LA., Dec. 15, 1860. DEAREST MINNIE: I have been intending to write you a good long letter, and now I wish I could send you all...

December 15[?], 1860. . . . I started to write a letter to Minnie but got drawn into this political strain that is not for her but you. Re...

This is Camp Tiffin. Our regiment was favored to-day with a large mail, and nothing could have been more acceptable. Letters from home were ...

Camp White, Charleston, West Virginia , August 6, 1863. Dear Uncle : — I received yours of the first yesterday morning. Lucy writes tha...

At Fayette, heard that Morgan was in Ohio at Piketon, leaving there for Gallipolis. General Scammon wisely and promptly determined to head ...

Fayetteville , July 16, 1863. Dear Mother : — We have been into Dixie and are safe out again into our own lines — a very lively and ple...

Washington , Feb. 15, 1855. Dear Friend , It is impossible for me to change my ground. I went into the Peoples Movement last year heart...

Washington Feb 9. 1855. Dear Hamlin , A much longer time has slipped by without my writing to you than ought; but you know what my sit...

Washington , Jan’y 22, 1855. My Dear Sir , I am in fault as usual about my correspondence. My only excuse is that I have more to read, ...

Washington Jany 22, 1854 My Dear Sir , I think you are mistaken in the am t , of my debt to you — it was for one letter instead of two...

Washington , Jan’y 17, 1854. My Dear Sir : I thank you for little note and for your kind appreciation of my wishes rather than my succe...

Ravenna , Sep. 3, 1853. Dear Sumner , I mourn with you over the opinion of Judge McLean; but I expected nothing otherwise. His whole co...

WASHINGTON, September 11, 1864 — 7.55 p.m. Lieutenant-General GRANT: It is not designed by this department to delay the draft a sing...

Washington , June 28, 1852. My Dear Sir , I received only today your letter of the 15th. I left the city on the adjournment over upon t...

WASHINGTON, June 26 , 1863 . His Excellency the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The undersigned, having been appointed a committee u...

WASHINGTON, June 29 , 1863 . Messrs. M. BIRCHARD [and others]: * GENTLEMEN: The resolutions of the Ohio Democratic State convention ...