We moved back to the old side, five of us, unbeknown to Rebs, it being improved by the removal of so many to the new part, and to get near t...

Landed at Milliken's Bend. General Grant's army is here encamped under the immediate command of General Grant, and under him command...

NEW YORK,                     Fifth Avenue Hotel, April 1, 1888. Dear Brother: . . . This morning at breakfast I received a note from Gen. ...

1319 K ST., WASHINGTON, D.C.,           Nov. 9, 1889. Dear Brother: . . . The coming session of Congress is to be an important one, not in...

NEW YORK, Νον. 12, 1889. Dear Brother: . . . I was very glad to receive your full letter of November 9th, to hear that you are safely bac...

SENATE CHAMBER,                WASHINGTON, D.C., July 21, 1890. Dear Brother: . . . You are living the life proper for your position and ...

NEW YORK, July 22, 1890. Dear Brother: I was gratified by the general tone and spirit of your letter of yesterday, just received. You sur...

NEW YORK, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 1891. Dear Brother: I am drifting along in the old rut in good strength, attending to about four dinners a wee...

Two gun-boats and two transports came up to Chickasaw and landed about one hundred and twenty cavalry and three regiments of infantry about ...

NEW YORK, FIFTH AVENUE, June 26, 1887. Dear Brother :  I have just returned from Saratoga and Lake George, and am now arranging for Provid...

MANSFIELD, OHIO, Sept. 3, 1887. Dear Brother: Your letter of the 27th came as I was starting for the Ohio Fair. From thence I went to Lanc...

NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 1887. Dear Brother :  I am sorry you lost the trip to Alaska, but it will give you an excuse for making it at some futu...

Dear Brother: I am perfectly content to have retired when I did, as the present  régime  makes Sheridan's command of the army a farce. T...

Sadie came to see me yesterday, and today it is Lise and Ernestine. We often see each other, and surely we girls are never so happy as when ...

A week of rain. Five hundred more prisoners, twenty being marines, captured as late as May 27th. Since yesterday morning the number of death...

On the above day and date commenced one of the great battles of the "War Between the States," generally known as the "Battle ...

[January 16, 1885.] . . . My re-election to the Senate for the fifth time is unprecedented in the history of Ohio, and for this I am indeb...

I have received your letter of the 16th, and somehow felt unusually gratified that you had been elected senator for the fifth time in the St...

[St. Louis, October 1885.] The newspapers here now state that the Ohio election has gone fairly and conclusively to the Republicans, and p...

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 8, 1885. Dear Brother: . . . I have been importuned from every quarter to write or say something about the "Depew...