April 22, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser  The New York Tribune, of the 8th, gives a flourishing account of a great “bread riot in Richmond,” for the particulars of which it is indebted to Col. Stewart, of the 22d Indiana Regiment, an U. S. Officer, just released by the Confederates. Col. S. says he witnessed the [...]

April 22, 1863, Arkansas True Democrat (Little Rock) It has been known, for weeks, that the federals in this State, as well as others, were destroying all farming implements, seizing all provisions and preventing the planting of crops, with the avowed determination to starve the people into submission. We suppose it might be possible that [...]

April 22, 1863, The New York Herald The Recent Fighting on the Nansemond River. Our Suffolk Correspondence. SUFFOLK, Va., April 20, 1863. At sunset yesterday afternoon, a portion of the force under command of General Getty, accomplished quite a feat of daring. Major General Peck for two days past has been watching a good opportunity [...]

April 22, 1863, Galveston Weekly News  The Almanac Extra contains a letter from Gen. H. E. McCulloch, dated Camp Wright, Arkansas, March 6th, stating that as Congress commuted soldiers’ rations in Hospital at one dollar a day, the means from this source will be more than sufficient to support the hospitals of that State, and [...]

April 22, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois)  It is announced on high authority that the conscription will be enforced in May–that is, the enrollment will be made during that month. The list of provost marshals and their regulations are nearly completed. The delay has been caused by section eight, which requires the appointment by the [...]

April 22, 1863, Dallas Herald From the Telegraph.             By Captain W. T. G. Weaver. Brave sons of that chivalrous land of the west,             The first and the boldest in war, Since the hour you struck for a nation oppressed             By the light of her rising star– Remember that field where our countrymen [...]

April 22, 1863, Galveston Weekly News  I take this opportunity to say to those planters with whom I have conferred on the subject of establishing a cotton and woolen factory, some of whom subscribed conditionally to the stock of the proposed Texas Manufacturing Company before I obtained a charter incorporating the same, which was granted [...]

April 22, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Gen. BRAGG has moved his headquarters from Tullahoma to Shelbyville. A correspondent of the Savannah News, writing from the latter place, gives the following account of VAN DORN’S fight at Franklin. On Sunday last a courier came from Gen. Van Dorn, with despatches containing a report of his engagement [...]

April 8, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MERCURY.) RICHMOND, Saturday, April 4. The cold March wind blowing this morning is fast drying the roads and paving the way to army operations, which the light April showers will hardly put a stop to. HOOKER’S army must be demoralized, if the half we hear from [...]

April 6, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)  We desire to purchase any quantity of clean linen and cotton rags, to be made up into paper, and we are willing to pay the highest market price in cash. They will also be received in payment of all dues to this office.  Will our subscribers everywhere interest themselves [...]

March 25, 1863, Southern Watchman (Athens, Georgia) Are our friends in the up country aware of the fact that the paper mills throughout the Confederacy will have to stop unless they can procure a larger supply of rags?  This is even so.  The Pioneer Mill near this place has adopted a new rule.  They sell [...]

March 25, 1863, Charleston Mercury Another Female Food Riot took place in Salisbury, N. C., on the 18th.  The women concerned in it compelled the merchants to share with them their stock of flour, and also robbed several families of the stock laid in for home use.  Salt, snuff and molasses was also taken.

March 25, 1863, Galveston Weekly News The undersigned having been creditably informed that our Texas soldiers in Arkansas have suffered, and are yet suffering from sickness and disease, incident to an unhealthy country, and that hundreds (we may say thousands) have died, mostly for the want of necessary and proper attention, respectfully recommend to the [...]

March 25, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Lieut. FRITH, who blew up the Indianola, gives the editor of the Natchez Courier the particulars. He says that on Wednesday night a Federal gunboat, which he is pretty well assured was the Tuscumbia (afterwards turning out to be a Yankee scare-crow), and which, by the way, is represented [...]

March 25, 1863, Arkansas True Democrat (Little Rock) Batesville, March 15th, 1863. Mr. Editor:  The military traveler sees many thing in this patriotic State worthy of preservation in the history of these eventful times. . . . Yesterday a prize drill came off in Shelby’s brigade.  It was exciting and beautiful.  The reward for the [...]

March 25, 1863, Dallas Herald Our informant who gave us the facts in regard to the capture of the Queen of the West, on Red River, and who was forced to go with the Queen down the Atchafalaya, relates the following incident: At one of the places burnt by the Queen, and owned by a [...]

March 25, 1863, Dallas Herald For several weeks past we have been compelled to print our paper on brown paper, and we shall probably be compelled to do so for several weeks to come. We have purchased a supply of white paper, which will cost us over $50 per ream by the time it reaches [...]

March 25, 1863, The Charleston Mercury COLUMBIA, TENN., March 18. In my last letter I gave you very fully the disposition of Van Dorn’s force upon Rutherford’s Creek, where he had taken position to meet the enemy. On the 10th we had retired from Spring Hill before a large force of the enemy, and taken [...]

March 25, 1863, Galveston Weekly News An army correspondent of the Chattanooga Rebel writes as follows: Our army is again in a good fighting trim, and the ranks rapidly filling up by the influx of absentees. I suppose it is better clothed, equipped and fed than ever before. The country is bountifully supplied with game, [...]

March 25, 1863, Galveston Weekly News  Like most of our contemporaries, we are compelled to advance our terms of subscription, not for the purpose of increasing profits, but to save ourselves from loss. Having now to pay for white paper just about fifteen times the price when our terms of subscription were established, our readers [...]

March 20, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MERCURY.) RICHMOND, Monday, March 16. A curious wrangle has been going on in the Virginia Legislature about salt. Certain patriots own certain salt works, and out of the same have coined abundant money; wherefore certain other more patriotic patriots propose to turn the owners out of [...]

March 12, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MERCURY.) RICHMOND, Friday, March 7. It was a relief to us to hear that the Indianola had not been blown up. One of our papers recommends that the parties connected with the disgraceful affair (if such it was) be branded with the letters T. M., and [...]

March 7, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MERCURY.) RICHMOND, Tuesday, March 3. Everybody admits that the horizon is darker than at any previous stage of the war, yet everybody is cheerful and confident. Dictator LINCOLN, with his powers of purse and sword, has no terrors for a people who have endured and achieved [...]

February 20, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The correspondent of the Jackson Appeal, writing from Vicksburg on the 12th inst., says: From present appearances one is led to infer that the enemy near this city is about perfecting his arrangements for an offensive move, and that the shock of battle cannot be much longer delayed. For [...]