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...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 23, 1886. Dear Brother: I owe you a personal explanation as to why I did not come to Washington during my last visit East...

ST. LOUIS, April 3, 1886. Dear Brother: . . . I shall go to California to be in San Francisco August 3d-5th for the Encampment of the G. A...

SENATE CHAMBER,           WASHINGTON, D.C., April 6, 1886. Dear Brother: Yours of the 3d is received. The speech of Mr. Corwin, to which ...

ST. LOUIS, April 13, 1886. Dear Brother: Your letter was duly received, and the quotation from Corwin's speech will be all I want. I ...

. . . . It is well, too, that the drift of events brings you eastward. You must be aware that the wonder has been that, having the whole cou...

[New York, New York, February 1, 1887.] . . . . I came near closing without answering the part of your letter most important. I certainly ...

Clouds and sunshine; warm. Splendid rainbow last evening. We have nothing new in the papers from any quarter. Sheridan's position is n...

Bright and cool. A violent southeast gale prevailed last evening, with rain. Of course we have no news in the papers from any quarter. Sheri...

As beautiful a spring morning as ever dawned since the sun spread its glorious light over the Garden of Eden. Cannon is heard at intervals...

Sunny and pleasant, but hazy in the south. Cannon heard, quite briskly, south of the city. The papers report that Gen. Hardee repulsed She...

Clear and warm. Apricots in blossom. At last we have reliable information that Johnston has checked one of Sherman's columns, at Bentonv...

Clear and very windy. The fear of utter famine is now assuming form. Those who have the means are laying up stores for the day of siege,—I m...

Clear and cool. It is reported that Grant is reinforcing Sherman, and that the latter has fallen back upon Goldsborough. This is not yet c...

Slightly overcast, but calm and pleasant. I am better, after the worst attack for twenty years. The only medicine I took was blue mass—ten g...