St. Louis, Feb. 24, 1859. To Messrs. J. PHILIPS PHOENIX, WILLIS BLACKSTONE, H. M. BININGER, DAVID J. LILET AND H. R. SMITH, Committee, New...

Captain S. P. Lee called on me to-day respecting his orders to Mare Island. The President on Saturday showed me an application which Lee had...

Why didn’t Denmark die in the last ditch? Plucky as she has been she happens to be made of flesh and blood, and this sort of dying is not a...

We have an unintelligible dispatch from Gen. Bragg, saying he had, yesterday, a prolonged contest with the enemy for the possession of Look...

November 17, 1863. My Dearest Mother : . . . I shall say nothing of our home affairs save that I am overjoyed at the results of the ele...

Vienna , May 12, 1863. My Dearest Mother : Since Easter brought an end to the Lenten entertainments which succeeded the carnival, ther...

Legation of the United States, March 3, 1863.             My Dearest Mother : As I have now made up my mind that our war is to be pro...

Boston , Dec. 26, 1851. Dear Sumner : — . . . I told you I should give you my views touching that part of your beautiful speech from wh...

Paris , Aug. 20, '50. My Dear Sumner : — I am always cheered by the sight of your “hand-o'-write” and that of your last letter ...

To-day the Members of Congress very generally visited the Russian fleet. I did not go down, but detailed two steamers which were at the yar...

It has been some weeks since I have opened this book. Such time as I could spare from exacting and oppressing current duties at the Departm...

St Petersburg June 26, 1862. My dear Sir, I must begin this my first letter from Russia, by thanking you for your message to Congre...

[Washington, 14 January 1862] . . . The President made an item of news yesterday for the country by appointing Edwin M. Stanton of Pa S...

To night, I was taken by surprise in hearing that Mr. Cameron sec. of War, has resigned, and goes to Russia, in lieu of Cash: M. Clay 26 —...

At church in the morning.   Good, plain sermon. Wished much to join in communion, but felt myself to subject to temptation to sin. After ch...

The President was not with us to-day at the Cabinet-meeting, being at the War Department with Stanton. All were present but them. Little kn...

Another gun-boat has got past Vicksburg. But three British steamers have run into Charleston with valuable cargoes. Gen. Lee is now sen...

The battle has been raging at Atlanta, 1 and our fate hanging in the balance. Atlanta, indeed, is gone. Well, that agony is over. Like Dav...

New YorK , October 15, 1864. . . . I dare say you have already attended to the subject I am going to write about; still I feel prompted...