The following sweet morsel of her fierce defiance and blustering braggadocio appears in the Philadelphia Transcript , under the head of “Cru...

“We hold traitors responsible for the work upon which they have precipitated us, and we warn them that they must abide the full penalty. Esp...

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

Camp near Rappahannock River, Culpeper County, Va., October 20, 1863. This is the first chance I have had to write to you since we started o...

SHERWOOD FOREST, December 6, 1859. DEAR ROBERT: Your letter of the 28th November is before me. I was far from inferring from your previous...

OFFICE ST. LOUIS RAILROAD COMPANY, St. Louis, April 25, 1861. DEAR BROTHER: Virginia's secession influences some six millions of peop...

The calls upon the President by associations claiming to represent States and municipalities are becoming less. To some extent they may have...

The President and Cabinet met by agreement at 10 A.M. at the Treasury. The President was half an hour behind time. Stanton was more than an ...

Hon. Eli Thayer’s scheme for colonization by armed men of Southern States meets with much favor by the President, Secretary of war and other...

October 21st, 1859. To His Excellency,          Thomas H. Hicks,                 Governor of Maryland: Sir : — I have just received from Hi...

THE EXPEDITION MOVES. The clink of the windlass is heard on all the boats, hoisting up their anchors, so here we go for a trip up the so...

DANVILLE, VA., April 4 , 1865 . TO THE PEOPLE OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA: The general-in-chief of our army has found it ...

As I look out on the Old Dominion, the Mother of presidents, statesmen and heroes, my mind is filled with historical reminiscences of its p...

No accounts of any fighting, but plenty of battles looked for. A. A. Little writes to the Secretary of War from Fredericksburg, that the...

The recent victory of Grant near Chattanooga seems to be very complete. We have not heard from Burnside, besieged in Knoxville by Longstree...

The second “unprovided-for difficulty” of the Keene Sentinel, in the way of the anti-slavery movement is, that “slaves are property.” We de...

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

Rain-storm. The excitement in Virginia is very great; the fear of insurrection and all kinds of fear. SOURCE: William Lawrence,  Life ...

Old Brown convicted. He made a brief speech that was worthy of the best of the early reformers. To-day I was told that his wife was in Bost...

We have nothing new this morning; but letters to the department from North and South Carolina indicate that while the troops in Virginia ar...