HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES,           ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 3, 1875. Dear Brother: I read carefully your speech, 1 and your re...

Baltimore, Oct. 17th-3.50 P. M. Gov. Henry A. Wise: Your dispatches are received and will be forwarded at once by telegraph and horse expres...

Maj. Gen. Geo. H. Steuart, Sir: — It is my duty to inform you forth with that an insurrection is in progress at Harper's Ferry, and o...

[Fort Brown, Texas, 1856] In this enlightened age there are few, I believe, but will acknowledge that slavery, as an institution, is a m...

Left camp after dinner. Dinner generally means noon, but our dinner-time on the march is quite irregular. Advanced unmolested till within a...

Continued from: George Thompson to William Lloyd Garrison, Wednesday Morning, April 22, 1835 . Thursday morning, 23d. Last evening, I...

The whole civilized world will be startled and horrified by this slaughter of probably not less than five or six hundred persons. The excus...

Reverses in North Carolina are bad at this time. The death of Flusser is most unfortunate. I presume the blame of the disasters will be att...

St. Helena's , May 11, 1862. I wish I had half as much time to think of folks at home as you take to think of me, but you will know...

We are now three miles from yesterday's resting place, and near the Miller plantation. Soon as dark last night we went to the negro hut...

It is, perhaps, too late to bring slavery to an end by peaceable means, — too late to vote it down. For many years I have feared, and publi...

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,             In the Field, Gaylesville, Ala., October 25, 1864. Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secre...

Post Office Department Washington March 15th 1861. Sir In reply to your interrogatory whether in my opinion it is wise to provision...

February 8, 1863. What do you think of the First Massachusetts Black Infantry? I suppose there is no doubt but that the regiment will b...

Rained heavily last night, nearly all night; cloudy this morning. Received permission for twenty-one days to go home, from headquarters, se...

Colonel Bradley Johnson has been with us for some days. He is nephew to Bishop J., and as bright and agreeable in private as he is bold and...

A day to be forever remembered, — as luck would have it, we rose very early, and had breakfast sooner than usual, it would seem for the exp...

Mr. P. has put us upon soldiers' rations in regard to meat; once a day, a quarter of a pound apiece for the whites, and a half pound fo...

Thank God for a ship! It has run the blockade with arms and ammunition. There are no negro sexual relations half so shocking as Mormonis...

The commanding officers of our post here are “conscripting” every able-bodied citizen for military duty. The order applies to blacks as wel...