The President submitted two long telegrams, one from himself to General Sheridan inquiring as to the difficulties at New Orleans and Sherida...

The Unionists carried the State Virginia yesterday by a large majority and everyone has felt better today. I think the Secession Movement ha...

Men as old as I am, it is said, are apt to be croakers and to complain of the degeneracy and corruption of the times. Certainly I am deeply ...

MR. CHAIRMAN AND FELLOW-CITIZENS: I share the sympathy and sorrow which have brought us together. Gentlemen who have preceded me have well s...

SHERWOOD FOREST, November 10, 1860. So all is over, and Lincoln elected. South Carolina will secede. What other States will do remains to ...

Fine winter day. All goes well at camp. Shall call it Camp Hastings. Eve with Generals Crook [and] Duval and doctors at Mr. Thurston's. ...

New York City is shouting for McClellan, and there is a forced effort elsewhere to get a favorable response to the almost traitorous proceed...

Headquarters Del. Dept. Wilmington, Del., July 28th, 1863. My dear Mother: That I have not written you more punctually, the enclos...

Am decidedly better and getting quite an appetite but can get nothing but broth, gruel, &c. Mouth very bad. Two or three teeth have com...

Washington City , Feb. 25, 1852. My Dear Sir , What are you about? I supposed that before this time you would have been established in ...

Started again by stage for Munroe at 4.30 A.M. My companions were, the Mississippi planter, a mad dentist from New Orleans (called, by cour...

Unofficial. November 16, 1861 Dr. Coxe, one of the most distinguished of the Episcopal clergy in this city, is a strong Union man. Hi...

Wednesday Evening. Yesterday was made famous and busy by the arrival of the paymaster, laden with gold. I was active all the afternoon,...

Shady Hill , 9 March, 1863. . . . The Democrats seem to me to have come to a consciousness of their danger. They are now setting themse...