CHARLESTON, [S. C.], 8th June, 1855. MY DEAR HUNTER: Some weeks since I rec[eive]d y[ou]r letter and thank you for y[ou]r efforts in behal...

Bright and beautiful. Indian summer apparently. All quiet below—but it is anticipated by some that a battle will occur to-day, or in a day...

SEMINARY, Feb. 1, 1861.  . . . I suppose you are impatient to hear what next. Last night I got full letters from Baton Rouge. Governor Moo...

Cloudy and somber. We have authentic intelligence of the defeat of our forces under Gen. Early, near Winchester. Two generals, Rhodes and ...

We have word that Sheridan has had a battle with a part of Lee's army, has captured six Rebel generals and several thousand prisoners. H...

The subject of this brief memoir was born near New Germantown, Hunterdon Co., N. J., on the 8th day of August, A. D. 1784. He was the gra...

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South By Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers Bridging women’s histo...

Lancaster, Ohio , Sept., 1859. I will come up about the 20th or 25th, and if you have an appointment to speak about that time, I should...

Some days ago I called the attention of the Senate to abuses in Missouri with reference to fugitive slaves. Since then I have received a g...

Breakfasted with Mr. Hodgson, where I met Mr. Locke, Mr. Ward, Mr. Green, and Mrs. Hodgson and her sister. There were in attendance some go...

Mrs. Trescot, it seems, spent part of her night in attendance on a young gentleman of color, who was introduced into the world in a state o...

Second year of Confederate independence. I write daily for my own diversion. These m é moires pour servir may at some future day afford fac...

Met Wm. H. B. Custis, Esq., to-day in the square, and had a long conversation with him. He has made up his mind to sign the ordinance. He t...

Boston , August 19,1861. . . . The public need something, or somebody, some word, or some blow, to magnetize them, or else they will be...

Fortress Monroe, May 31st, 1861. Dear L., — Thanks for your kind letter and the hamper. I saw Gen. Butler at Washington. He invited me ...

Shady Hill , 10 February, 1861. . . . Well, since I wrote last to you, great things have been going on here. It has been no time for wr...