Thursday, 19th–All is quiet and there is nothing of importance. The report in camp is that the Sixth Division will remain at Vicksburg all winter; we are thankful if that is the case, as we are comfortably fixed for winter.
19th. About two stopped at a house and warmed. Got into a bed for two hours. Pitied some poor people. Gave a woman $22 scrip. Wolf and I went to a Mr. Tate’s (rebel off the road) for breakfast. One very affected rebel girl with curls, perfectly disgusting. Train corralled near. One and one-half miles [...]
Wednesday, 19th.—Building shanty to-day. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)
November 19.–We wish we were at Gettysburg to-day to hear President Lincoln’s and Edward Everett’s addresses at the dedication of the National Cemetery. We will read them in to-morrow’s papers, but it will not be like hearing them. Authors Note, 1911. – Forty – eight years have elapsed since Lincoln’s speech was delivered at the [...]
NOVEMBER 19th.—Miss Harriet H. Fort, of Baltimore, has arrived via Accomac and Northampton Counties, with a complete drawing of all the defenses of Baltimore. The Medical Purveyor’s Guards have petitioned the Secretary for higher pay. They get now $1500 per annum, and say the city watchmen get $2300. Gens. Banks and Taylor in the West [...]
November 19, 1863, The New York Herald The treatment of the Union prisoners at Richmond has been the theme of many comments in our columns of late, and the miserable condition to which they were reduced for want of food and other necessaries of life has been repeatedly described by our correspondents and others. [...]