The President to-day wrote a letter to Schofield in relation to his alleged army of returned rebels in Missouri. . . . The President added:...

Green Meadows. — Captain Drake with Companies H and I returned this morning. The mounted men crossed the ford just above Bluestone on New R...

All taken outside to-day to be squadded over — an all day job, and nothing to eat. The men being in hundreds and some dying off every day, ...

Letter from Agnes. Wrote E. C. Adams, C. J. Mills, Brady, Mrs. Bramhall. Anna read Prescott's review of Lockhart's “Life of Scott.”...

We have exciting news from the West. The iron-shod gun-boat, Queen of the West, which run past Pemberton's batteries some time since, c...

We were ordered to Columbus, Ky., where we landed at dark It was rainy and cold, and the men slept in an old cotton shed. SOURCE: Ab...

All quiet in camp to-day. Lieut. D. G. Hill and Sergt. J. M. Read's commissions came this afternoon. Lieut. Hill has been mustered; hav...

Met the train coming down — some delay. Sorted out the mail. Several letters for me, Fannie, Lucy, Fred, Charley. Marched to our old camp o...

Inspection at 9. A. M. Lt Hook comes to the Regt with the sad intiligence of the Assassination of President Lincoln & Sec Seward which ...

Navy Department , 13 April, 1863. Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 11th inst., enclosi...

This morning the President said that Dana has continually been telegraphing of Rosecrans’s anxiety for food; but Thomas now telegraphs that...

Camp Green Meadows , July 14, 1862. Dearest : — I am so pleased with your affectionate letter, that I sit down merely to “jaw back,” as...

Rainy, cold and disagreeable weather. Henry Stimson, a fellow who was captured with me, was carried out dead this morning He was diseased w...

Sent long letter to Agnes. Down stairs in evening. Anna reading “ Pendennis .” SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Palfrey,  Memoir of William ...

The resignation of Gen. Gustavus W. Smith has been accepted by the President. It was well done — the acceptance, I mean. Who will Gen. Wind...

Finished my quarters — they were very good ones too. It was boarded up about four feet and the tent put over the top, and the soldiers buil...

This morning found us in line about two miles outside of Harper's Ferry, but no signs of an enemy in our immediate front; has been quit...

Saw Shattuck. $9.00 extra. Refused. Up early with orders to report with the train to Fort Scott. Most of the boys glad. Marched to Cincinna...

Quiet all night, a little shower about Midnight. As I was not notified that we would march today lay in bed until late. Our Nigger Charlie ...

Wrote Seward a letter on the subject of captured mails, growing out of the prize Peterhoff. On the 18th of August last I prepared a set of...