Confidential  Wabash, 31. May. 62.  My Dear Sir  I found the accumulation of men from Prizes so great and the Bienville's Engines so pre...

Navy Department , April 1,1863. I have your letter from near Halifax. Every steamer we capture that will carry one gun is invariably ta...

The Chronicle of this morning contains my letter with some errors, to the Senate in response to a call relating to transfers.   It makes so...

A strong effort is on foot by naval officers who have been retired and their friends to set aside the law and the action under which they w...

At early dawn this morning, looking out of the sleeping car, I saw through the mist a broad, placid river on the right, and on the left hig...

There was a reception to-day from one to three at the President's. Went over for an hour. Several of the Cabinet, most of the foreign...

Navy Department , 26 August, 1863. SIR, In the case of the Mont Blanc, seized by Commander Collins at Sand Cay as a prize, the Cour...

Dep't. of State, 4 Aug. 1863. Hon. G. Welles, Secty. of the Navy. Sir :— I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your comm...

Navy Department , 31 July, 1863. Sir , On the 13th of May last I had the honor to receive a note from you enclosing the copy of a c...

Very warm. Little done at Cabinet. Seward undertook to talk wise in relation to Commander Collins and the Mont Blanc, but really betrayed i...

We have accounts of farther and extensive depredations by the Alabama. These depredations were near the Line, where the Department, in anti...

Saw Seward this morning respecting Wilkes. After talking over the subject, he said he cared nothing about Wilkes, that if he was removed he...

The President called on me this morning with the basis of a dispatch which Lord Lyons proposed to send home. He had submitted it to Mr. Sew...

We have information that Stonewall Jackson, one of the best generals in the Rebel, and, in some respects, perhaps in either, service, is de...

The President sent a note to my house early this morning, requesting me to call at the Executive Mansion on my way to the Department. When ...

But little of importance at the Cabinet. The President read a brief telegram which he got last evening from General Hooker, to whom, gettin...

Wrote Seward a letter on the subject of captured mails, growing out of the prize Peterhoff. On the 18th of August last I prepared a set of...

Navy Department. 31 Mar., 1863. Sir, When discussing the regulations concerning “Letters of Marque,” &c a few days since, I mad...

The week has been one of steady, incessant employment. I feel I have been overtasked and am much exhausted. Must have rest. Two rather ...

Our distress about Gibbes has been somewhat relieved by good news from Jimmy. The jolliest sailor letter from him came this morning, dated ...