2nd. Borrowed one day’s rations of the 12th R. I. Expecting a train for ourselves. Boys very accommodating. Regt. to be mustered out of service on the 13th. All very happy. It makes me almost homesick and still I am glad my time is not out. I could not be satisfied at home with this [...]
Thursday, 2d–We loaded up our baggage and started at 8 o’clock to join our regiment and brigade in camp on the Big Black river, about ten miles distant. We found our command cutting away the trees which were cut down to keep General Johnston from coming in our rear after Vicksburg should surrender.[1] [1] It [...]
Thursday, 2d.—Pretty quiet to-day; think the rations are about out, as we have been getting two small biscuits and a pint of pea soup for a day’s rations for several days; no meat, and pea-bread seems to be out. Various rumors. Tom Meek, Company E, wounded; Jones Greene died of sickness; think the siege of [...]
July 2. Commences with pleasant but very warm weather; at nine A. M., inspected crew at quarters; from eleven A. M., until three P. M. firing of heavy guns heard in the rear of Port Hudson; the rebel water batteries firing at lower fleet.
July 2—Part of the day among wounded men. Visited Brigade in town. A fearful fight from 3 till 9 p. m.
JULY 2D.—The President is unwell again; to what extent I have not learned. But the Vice-President is ready, no doubt, to take his place in the event of a fatal result; and some would rejoice at it. Such is the mutability of political affairs! The Attorney-General Watts, being referred to, sends in a written opinion [...]
From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd JULY 2ND.–This is Camp Tiffin. Our regiment was favored to-day with a large mail, and nothing could have been more acceptable. Letters from home were looked into first, and next, of course, came sweethearts. One letter was read aloud, describing the capture of a butternut camp, in [...]
July 2, 1863, The New York Herald HEADQUARTERS, FIFTH ARMY CORPS, June 28, 1863. THE PROMOTION OF GEN. MEADE — HIS SUCCESSOR. The appointment of Gen. Meade to the command of the army places General Sykes in command of the Fifth corps. At eight A. M. General Meade, with his personal staff, left corps headquarters [...]
July 2, 1863, The New York Herald COLUMBIA, Pa., July 1, 1863. THE REBEL MOVEMENTS. There are a large number of persons here this morning anxious to cross the river, in view of the fact that the enemy has fallen back, but the military authorities are not disposed to grant passes for this purpose at [...]
July 2, 1863, The New York Herald THE SEVENTY-FIRST IN PENNSYLVANIA. OUR HARRISBURG CORRESPONDENCE. HARRISBURG, June 30, 1863. You may have heard the word ‘refugee,’ but I am sure you know but little of its real meaning. Picture to yourself, if you can, a long line of men, women, cows, sheep, chairs and babies, covered [...]
July 2, 1863, Semi-Weekly News (San Antonio, Texas) On Monday morning, about a quarter past 8 o’clock, the work house of the Powder Mill blew up, instantly killing a German, named Ernst Guenther, and a Mexican, named Ignacio Salinas, who were at work in it, at the time. Mr. Frederick, the superintendent of the [...]
July 2, 1863, Daily Citizen (Vicksburg, Mississippi) We learned of an instance wherein a “knight of the quill” and a “disciple of the black art,” with malice in their hearts and vengeance in their eyes, ruthlessly put a period to the existence of a venerable feline that has for time, not within the recollection [...]
July 2, 1863, Daily Citizen (Vicksburg, Mississippi) Jerre Askew, one of our most esteemed merchant-citizens, was wounded at the works in the rear of our city a few days since, and breathed his last on Monday. Mr. Askew was a young man of strict integrity, great industry and an honor to his family and [...]
July 2, 1863, Daily Citizen (Vicksburg, Mississippi) We are indebted to Major Gillespie for a steak of Confederate beef alias meat. We have tried it, and can assure our friends that if it is rendered necessary, they need have no scruples at eating the meat. It is sweet, savory and tender, and so long [...]
July 2, 1863, Daily Citizen (Vicksburg, Mississippi) That the great Ulysses–the Yankee Generalisimo, surnamed Grant–has expressed his intention of dining in Vicksburg on Saturday next, and celebrating the 4th of July by a grand dinner and so forth. When asked if he would invite Gen. Jo. Johnston to join us said, “No! for fear [...]
July 2, 1863, Daily Citizen (Vicksburg, Mississippi) We have heretofore refrained from alluding to a matter which has been a source of extreme annoyance and loss our citizens. We refer to the lax discipline of some of our company officers in allowing their men to prowl around, day and night, and purloin fruit, vegetables, [...]
July 2, 1863, Daily Citizen (Vicksburg, Mississippi) Among many good deeds we have spoken of with pride by our citizens, we cannot refrain from mentioning the case of Mr. F. Kiser. This gentleman, having more corn than he though was necessary to last him during the siege of this place, portioned off what would [...]
July 2, 1863, Daily Citizen (Vicksburg, Mississippi) If aught would appeal to the heart of stone of the extortioner with success, the present necessities of our citizens would do so. If is needless to attempt to disguise from the enemy or our own people that our wants are great, but still we can conscientiously [...]
July 2, 1863, Daily Citizen (Vicksburg, Mississippi) Mrs. Cisco was instantly killed on Monday, on Jackson road. Mrs. Cisco’s husband is now in Virginia, a member of Moody’s artillery, and the death of such a loving, affectionate and dutiful wife will be a loss to him irreparable.
July 2, 1863, The Charleston Mercury LATEST NEWS FROM RICHMOND AND THE NORTH. RICHMOND, July 1. — A flag of truce boat arrived at City Point yesterday with returned prisoners of war, ten political prisoners and five ladies. The boat brings a report that the Confederate troops occupy Harrisburg and York, Pennsylvania, but no further [...]
July 2, 1863, The New York Herald General Meade has commenced in Maryland and Pennsylvania, with the most promising results thus far, his active operations against the invading rebel army of General Lee. Our brief reports from the headquarters of the army of Tuesday’s brilliant operations by the Union cavalry, and the despatch announcing the [...]
July 2, 1863, The New York Herald THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. HARRISBURG, Pa., June 30, 1863. In company with another gentleman, I left this city last Friday morning for Gettysburg, with a view to ascertain, by my own observation, the object of the rebel invasion, their numerical force, what they were about and the [...]
July 2, 1863, The New York Herald There was some apprehension in Washington yesterday that the army of General Lee might make a line of retreat from Maryland and reach the federal capital before the army of General Meade can intercept it. Some hopes were entertained that General Meade might be able to strike the [...]
July 2, 1863, The New York Herald OUR COLUMBIA CORRESPONDENCE. COLUMBIA, Pa., June 30, 1863. THE EXCITEMENT. The rebels having fallen back to York, there is not so much anxiety evinced here now for the safety of the city. A large number of men were forced into the government service yesterday without authority, as the [...]
July 2, 1863, The New York Herald FREDERICK, Md., June 28, 1863. THE CHANGE OF COMMAND. Major General George G. Meade this morning received orders from Washington to relieve General Hooker of the command of the Army of the Potomac, and has already entered upon the discharge of his duties as General-in-Chief. The order was [...]