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...

JULY 1, 1863—3.35 p.m. General HANCOCK, or General HOWARD: I am moving the Twelfth Corps so as to come in about 1 mile to the right of G...

Morning at Stevensburg, Va.—Taking a southwest direction we passed northeast of Stony Mountain and came in conjunction with other marching c...

Last Tuesday, when on board the Pawnee with the President and Cabinet, Stanton took me aside and desired to know if the Navy could not spare...

CAMP HASTINGS, March 12, 1865. MY DARLING: — I am very glad to have heard from or of you several times during the last week. While your rh...

CAMP HASTINGS, March 24, 1865. DEAR UNCLE: — Crook was all right with Grant, but Stanton was angry. Grant however rules matters where he r...

Camp HASTINGS, April 3, 1865. DEAR MOTHER: — I am to have a new command in Hancock's Corps. Either veterans or a brigade of new Ohio t...

CAMP HASTINGS, April 3, 1865. DEAR COLONEL: — That sounds better, don't it? Your commission was sent three weeks ago, as I was told by...

Hot and dry. There are rumors of battles near Winchester and in Georgia. Mr. Benjamin writes the Secretary of War for a passport for who...

CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, March 2, 1865. DEAR UNCLE:— It is a rainy, dismal day. General Hancock is in command of this Department. Sheridan ha...

CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, March 2, 1865. DEAR HASTINGS: — Glad to get yours of the 27th and to find you are sound on the question of promotion...

CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, March 5, 1865. DEAREST: — General Sheridan has got together all the four-footed beasts of this region and mounted hi...

CAMP HASTINGS, March 11, 1865. DEAR MOTHER:— Nothing of interest in this particular locality. As part of Sheridan's command, we feel a...

CAMP RUSSELL, December 17, 1864. MY DARLING: — No certainty about things yet. We fired fifty guns yesterday and one hundred more today ove...

ALONE AGAIN. Our Brooklyn friends left us the 13th. They were ordered to report at Newport News, and we to remain here to do guard duty. W...

WAR DEPARTMENT,                      May 9 , 1864—3.20 p.m. Major-General BUTLER: A bearer of dispatches from General Meade has jus...

CITY POINT, VA ., July 7 , 1864 — 8 a.m.           (Received 6 p.m.) A change in the commander of the Army of the Potomac now seem...

CITY POINT, August 2 , 1864 — 9 . 30 p.m. Major-General HALLECK, Chief of Staff: I have the honor to request that the President m...

College Point, L. I., July 30, 1864. Hon. S. Foot: Dear Senator: — I am extremely anxious that my friends in my native State should no...

WASHINGTON, April 19 , 1865  —  5 . 30 p.m.   Major-General HANCOCK,   Winchester, Va.: If Mosby does not avail himself of the pres...