Stormy Night. Indications this morning good for a rainy day A marvelous assault was committed at the St. Charles Hotel yesterday by the Repo...

LONDON, KY., November 8 , 1861 . (Received November 9.) [General THOMAS:] GENERAL: Yours of the 7th instant, with copy of letter to Governo...

Monocacy, Oct. 18th, 1859–2.35 P. M. J. W. Garrett: Train has arrived here with troops. Gen'l Steuart orders that no more troops of an...

Harper's Ferry, October 18, 1859, 12 midnight. To L. M. Cole: Arrived at Sandy Hook before 11, and car with Col. Lee arrived soon after....

 Received a letter from Osborn denying that he furnished information concerning operations against Fort Fisher. At the same time Mr. Faxon t...

At the Cabinet little as usual was done. Fessenden and Stanton were not present. Seward came late. No measure of any importance was introduc...

Private Wabash, Port Royal, S.C.        7, July, 62  My Dear Friend I enclose a slip from Charleston Mercury of 25. ulto —that you may see ...

January 2, 1863. . . . I did not observe any reporters at our barbecue yesterday, but I presume some of the journals will contain enoug...

HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION,                   Memphis, August 17 , 1862 . Major-General GRANT, Corinth: DEAR SIR: A letter from yo...

Late last night, Mr. Byington, a newspaper correspondent, called at my house. He left General Grant's headquarters at 8 A.M. yesterday....

Headquarters Department of Annapolis, April 30th, 1861 To Lieut. Gen’l. WINFIELD Scott, General in Chief U.S. Army, WASHINGTON, D.C. ...

The calmness and silence of the streets of Washington this lovely morning suggested thoughts of the very different scenes which, in all pro...

LANCASTER, OHIO, December 12 , 1861 . Major-General HALLECK, Saint Louis, Mo.: DEAR SIR: I believe you will be frank enough to answ...

Camp Shiloh, Apl. 14, 1862 Dearest Ellen, The day before yesterday I heard Halleck had arrived at the River and upon making a short t...

To-day was spent in a lengthy excursion along the front of the camp in Virginia, round by the chain bridge which crosses the Potomac, about...

Late last night the President told General Scott to send Captain Taylor back to the Confederate lines, and he was accordingly escorted to A...

Confidential. Wabash 1—Dec 61 Port Royal . My Dear Sir There is much disappointment here & even depression felt that the Dep...

Baltic, 17th April At Sea, 1861    Dr Blair, As I have no writing materials and wish to save tomorrow's mail I use a pencil. ...

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...

Busy when out of the Department in collecting materials and framing the skeleton outlines of my Annual Report. Shall be so occupied for a f...