President sent for me this evening. Found Stanton with him, having a dispatch from General Grant desiring him to request me to remove Comman...

The President, accompanied by two of his aids, set off quietly day before yesterday for the Southwest — to Bragg's army, no doubt, wher...

We have no news of any importance from any of the armies. Gen. Bragg, however, telegraphs, August 31st, that he is concentrating his forces...

No full reports yet from Du Pont. Am pained, grieved, distressed by what I hear; and that I hear from him so little. We learn that after al...

An intense and anxious feeling on all hands respecting Charleston. Went early to the Department. About 11 A.M. a dispatch from the Navy Yar...

The President has not yet returned. The Cabinet did not convene to-day. Affairs look uncomfortable in North Carolina. The army there needs ...

[Stono] River, S. C, April 10,1863. MY DEAR SIR: I went yesterday morning to Charleston Harbor to deliver to Admiral Dupont the des...

I went to church at St Michael's, which is one of the oldest churches in America, and is supposed to have been built a hundred and fift...

General Ripley took me in his boat to Morris Island. We passed Fort Sumter on our left, and got aground for five minutes in its immediate n...

Bannister at Breakfast. Went to Department, and from Department with Deputation of Friends from Mt. Pleasant, O., and Wilmington, Del., to ...

Breakfasted alone. What has become of Mr. Skinner? Went to Department and attended to some matters of routine. Went to Navy Department ...

Captain Paine of the 100th New York, with nine of his men were captured by the rebels on the night of the 4th, while on a scout near Light H...