No news of any action by the Democratic Charleston Convention. Douglas, the little giant, said to be losing ground. SOURCE: Allan Nevins a...

No Democratic nominee from Charleston, yet. Two to one on Douglas, I say. SOURCE: Allan Nevins and Milton Halset Thomas, Editors,  Diary o...

Little or nothing to record. Fine Day. Rumor this afternoon of schism in the Charleston Convention, certain Southern delegations of pyrophag...

Everybody talks of the great Heenan and Sayers prize fight in England—the “international” fight—and of the American champion’s unfair treatm...

Some eight Southern delegations have seceded from the Charleston Convention. It refused to make a slave code for the territories an article ...

. . . The Democratic Convention has dissolved and dispersed without nominating anybody. It is to assemble again at Baltimore in June. SOUR...

Three Roads to Gettysburg: Meade, Lee, Lincoln, and theBattle That Changed the War, the Speech That Changed the Nation By Tim McGrath Re...

WILL McClellan display unity in conception, and vigor in execution? That is the question. He seems very energetic and active in organizing t...

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...

Winter . Just think of it, and yet but for the almanac I should call it Indian summer. SOURCE:  Lawrence Van Alstyne,  Diary of an Enliste...

On board the Arago again. That is, most of us are. Some were sent to the hospital instead, Leonard Loucks among them. Orders came in the nig...

Rainy day. Many have taken cold from our stay in camp and coughing and sneezing is going on all over the boat. I manage to keep up at this, ...

Judging from appearances we are to move again. The anchor is coming up and there is hustling and bustling about all over the boat. Anything ...

Wind and waves both much higher. Nearly everyone except myself is seasick. Before it reaches me I am going to try and describe what is going...

My turn came, but did not last long. I was able to see the others at their worst, and came out of it before the others were able to take muc...