1st. Went to the 1st Ky. and borrowed a day’s rations. A very hot sultry day. Everyone trying to find cool shade, almost impossible. The rash broken out on me makes me a great deal of trouble. Keeps me awake nights and gives me very little rest. Got some blackberries.
Wednesday, 1st–A detail of the Seventeenth Iowa came out this morning to relieve us, and a team came this afternoon to haul our baggage, but we have not yet received orders to leave. Captain McLoney went down to the headquarters of the picket officers to get an order to move. The report is that our [...]
Lagrange, Tenn., July 1, 1863. Everything moves quietly here. No more alarms or anything else to “bust” the confounded monotony of garrison life. A guerrilla was brought in yesterday who has murdered at least one of our soldiers, and an unarmed one at that. He rests comfortably now with a nice lot of jewelry on [...]
July, Wednesday 1.—Yanks have worked up with their outpost ditches, until they are within forty to one hundred yards almost all around our lines. Tried to blow some of our works, but did not pay them for their trouble. Water getting very low. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)
July 1st. Commences with clear and pleasant weather; at nine A. M., inspected crew at quarters; at ten thirty steamer Estrella came down the river and communicated with us; our naval battery below has been firing steadily all day, but the rebels did not reply.
JULY 1st.—The intelligence of the capture of Harrisburg and York, Pa., is so far confirmed as to be admitted by the officers of the Federal flag of truce boat that came up to City Point yesterday. Of the movements of Hooker’s army, we have the following information: “HEADQUARTERS, CAVALRY DIVISION, “June 27th, 1863…………. ………….“GENERAL:—I took [...]
From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd July 1ST.–Here we enter upon the patriotic month of July, and where and how we are to spend it is yet beyond our conjecture, for we never know in this kind of service what a day may bring forth. Preparations appear to have been made here for remaining [...]
July 1, 1863, The New York Herald MARYLAND HEIGHTS, June 28, 1863. We were visited here yesterday by Major General Hooker, accompanied by Brigadier General Warren. The object of the commanding general’s ride from Poolesville, Monocacy, Frederick, or somewhere thereabouts, was to inquire into the propriety of evacuating the heights. He sent for Colonel Reynolds, [...]
July 1, 1863, The New York Herald It became bruited about yesterday morning that General McClellan had been appointed by the President to the chief command of the army, vice General Halleck. The effect of this rumor was really astonishing. Gold went down, while there seemed a general revival of public confidence. The rumor spread [...]
July 1, 1863, The New York Herald Intelligence from Pennsylvania and Maryland continues of the most exciting character. From despatches received from Harrisburg yesterday afternoon it was thought that General Ewell’s whole corps, supported by portions of the forces of Longstreet and Hill, in all forty thousand men, would move on Harrisburg last evening, or [...]
June 31, 1863, Corinth Chanticleer (Corinth, Ms) Camp Davies is destined to become of one of the strongholds of our Corinth defense.We are informed that the enterprising and industrious sharp shooters are constructing an inner fort of huge dimensions.The rebels stand in as much awe of CampDavies, as the Indians on the plains did of [...]
July 1, 1863, The New York Herald The movements of the rebels yesterday in Pennsylvania, so far as reported, show that they have found the Susquehanna river an obstruction which it would be unwise to attempt to pass, and that they are gradually falling back to provide against the contingencies of a movement upon their [...]
July 1, 1863, The New York Herald Important from the Peninsula. Mr. STEPHEN HAYES’LETTER. ON THE PENINSULA, June 29, 1863. THE START AND MARCH. The expedition started from West Point on Thursday, the 25th inst., the force consisting of the Eleventh Pennsylvania cavalry, and two hundred men, part of the Second Massachusetts and Twelfth Illinois [...]
July 1, 1863, Galveston Weekly News The Brownsville Flag of the 12th inst. says there are now no war vessels at the mouth of the Rio Grande–that the report of the Yellow Fever in that city is without foundation, but that the dangue fever is circulating through the city. Judge Redgate is now in [...]
July 1, 1863, The New York Herald COLUMBIA, Pa., via LANCASTER, June 30, 1863. I have reliable information that the enemy is falling back along the entire line. The city of York was evacuated last night or early this morning. General Early is reported to have carried off a vast amount of money and stores. [...]
July 1, 1863, Austin State Gazette The San Antonio News of the 22nd, publishes the following items: There have been one hundred and eighty applications filed in our County Court, for relief, under the act of the last Legislature, granting assistance to soldiers’ families. The wife is allowed five dollars per month and [...]
July 1, 1863, The New York Herald BALTIMORE, Md., June 29, 1863. ANXIETY — JUBILANCE AND WILD RUMORS. There exists a good deal of anxiety in this city as to the result of the pending army movements, and on the part of that numerous class of citizens with secession proclivities a suppressed but noticeable jubilance [...]
July 1, 1863, Austin State Gazette The San Antonio News of the 22nd, publishes the following items: There have been one hundred and eighty applications filed in our County Court, for relief, under the act of the last Legislature, granting assistance to soldiers’ families. The wife is allowed five dollars per month and children two [...]
July 1, 1863, Dallas Herald A gentleman of a Virginia regiment, writing to his mother, gives the following account of the adventure he had in one of the recent battles. We copy from the Examiner: I must tell you of a prisoner that I captured. I spied the villain in the road and [...]
July 1, 1863, The Charleston Mercury FROM VICKSBURG AND THE WEST. JACKSON, June 29. — Advices from Vicksburg report no change in the condition of affairs there. On the night of the 21st, the enemy sprung a mine to blow up the angle of one of our works. It was a complete failure however, and [...]
July 1, 1863, Dallas Herald Among the registered enemies of the United States government who have been recently sent across the lines from New Orleans, there is now in this city a lady whose adventures place her in the ranks of the Molly Pitchers of the present revolution. At the breaking out of [...]
July 1—Division moves six miles by Middle Town and six and a half to Gettysburg and drive the enemy two miles. Col. Parker, Capt. C. N. Allen, Lieut. Brown and many others are wounded. Among the killed are: G. L. Swain, S. M. Hewitt, John C. Goodwin, John H. Mason and J. B. Whitley. Col. [...]
Wednesday.—Many exciting rumours to-day about the Yankees being at Hanover Court-House, within a few miles of us. They can be traced everywhere by the devastation which marks their track. There are also rumours that our army is in Pennsylvania. So may it be! We are harassed to death with their ruinous raids, and why should [...]
July 1st, 1863.—Some months ago, thinking it might be useful, I obtained from the consul of my birthplace, by sending to another town, a passport for foreign parts. H. said if we went out to the lines we might be permitted to get through on that. So we packed the trunk, got a carriage, and [...]