Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected.Hyphenation and accentuation have been standardised, allother inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spellinghas been maintained.
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BY
VOLUME SECOND.
NEW-YORK:
Carleton, Publisher, 413 Broadway.
MDCCCLXIV.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864,
By GEO. W. CARLETON,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the SouthernDistrict of New York.
Of all the peoples known in history, the American people mostreadily forgets YESTERDAY;
I publish this Diary in order to recall YESTERDAY to the memory ofmy countrymen.
GUROWSKI.
Washington, October, 1863.
NOVEMBER, 1862.
Secretary Chase — French Mediation — The Decembriseur — Diplomatic Bendings. 11
DECEMBER, 1862.
President's Message — Political Position — Fredericksburgh — Fog — Accident — Crisis in the Cabinet — Secretary Chase — Burnside — Halleck — The Butchers — The Lickspittle Republican Press — War Committee Patriots — Youth — People — Ring out. 22
JANUARY, 1863.
Proclamation — Parade — Halleck — Diplomats — Herodians — Inspired Men — War Powers — Rosecrans — Butler — Seward — Doctores (p. 008) Constitutionis — Hogarth — Rhetors — European Enemies — Second Sight — Senator Wright, the Patriot — Populus Romanus — Future Historian — English People — Gen. Mitchel — Hooker in Command — Staffs — Arming Africo-Americans — Thurlow Weed, &c. 61
FEBRUARY, 1863.
The Problems before the People — The Circassian — Department of State and International Laws — Foresight — Patriot Stanton and the Rats — Honest Conventions — Sanitary Commission — Harper's Ferry — John Brown — The Yellow Book — The Republican Party — Epitaph — Prize Courts — Suum cuique — Academy of Sciences — Democratic Rank and File, etc. 119
MARCH, 1863.
Press — Ethics — President's Powers — Seward's Manifestoes — Cavalry — Letters of Marque — Halleck — Sigel — Fighting — McDowell — Schalk — Hooker — Etat Major-General — Gold — Cloaca Maxima — Alliance — Burnside — Halleckiana — Had we but Generals, how often Lee could have been destroyed, etc. 159
APRIL, 1863.
Lord Lyons — Blue Book — Diplomats — Butler — Franklin — Bancroft — Homunculi — Fetishism — Committee on the Conduct of the War — Non-intercourse — Peterhoff — Sultan's Firman — Seward — Halleck —