I hired a horse at a livery stable, and rode out to Arlington Heights, at the other side of the Potomac, where the Federal army is encampe...

I got a pass and went to the city again. I spent most of the day in the patent office and in the Smithsonian Institution. I also got my wat...

How it does rain! Last night there were torrents of water in the streets literally a foot deep. It still runs in muddy whirling streams thr...

Smithsonian; Sanitary; Capitol; Senate, House, and Library; Long Bridge. SOURCE: Edwin Everett Hale, Editor,  James Freeman Clarke: ...