February 8, 1863, The New York Herald There is no news from the Rappahannock today. The condition of the roads is such as to prohibit all possibility of any advance movements. Rumors are afloat – although not substantiated – that the President was disposed to recall General McClellan to the command of the Army of [...]
February 7, 1863, The New York Herald WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 1863. Much feeling is exhibited here in regard to the publication of a pamphlet purporting to be the evidence in full in the Fitz John Porter trial. This is a base and most contemptible swindle, the evidence for the defence, which is threefold more lengthy [...]
February 7, 1863, The New York Herald Our White Oak Church Correspondence. NEAR WHITE OAK CHURCH, Va., Feb. 4, 1863. The weather yesterday was terribly severe. Although it was clear, there were high winds and a freezing temperature to penetrate the flimsy shelter tents or dash down the chimneys of the soldiers’ huts, and scatter [...]
February 7, 1863, The Charleston Mercury BANKS is weaving a net of despotism over that portion of our sister State, the meshes of which are more subtle than the policy of BUTLER. The latter was open in his tyranny, and the brutal and rigorous manner in which he enforced his edicts, only served to strengthen [...]
February 7, 1863, The Charleston Mercury It is a well ascertained fact that South Carolina has within her bosom the purest Iron ores that can be found upon the globe. Commencing in Spartanburg, and running through the upper portions of Union and York Districts, there exist vast beds of the finest magnetic, hematite and limonite [...]
February 7, 1863, The New York Herald There is nothing further of importance from Charleston today later than our former despatches. The Army of the Potomac is still quiescent. The roads, after the late storm, are in sad condition, rendering all movements impossible. By an arrival at Suffolk from Richmond we learn that the new [...]
February 6, 1863, The New York Herald Despatches received from Fortress Monroe at Washington yesterday, state that the blockade at Charleston was not interrupted for any considerable time by the dispersion of the Union fleet on Saturday, the 31st of January. While there can be no doubt that the port was opened by the sudden [...]
February 6, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The report of the Secretary of War recently sent into Congress, communicates some interesting and most encouraging information in relation to our military affairs, and present the encouraging conclusion that our army is fully equal, if not superior, in all the elements of strength, to what it has been [...]
February 6, 1863, The New York Herald Our Fortress Monroe Correspondence. FORTRESS MONROE, Feb. 4, 1863. Late Richmond advices have reached us this morning, from which I learn that (according to rebel statements) the blockade of Charleston harbor has been raised by two rams engaging our fleet, sinking the United States gunboat Mercedita and compelling [...]
February 6, 1863, The New York Herald We learn from the Richmond papers which arrived yesterday that immediately after the scattering of our vessels by the rebel rams in the recent unfortunate affair at Charleston a Confederate steamer was despatched to Nassau to give formal notice to the authorities there of the raising of the [...]
February 6, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Disasters which have befallen the Confederate States are attributable to inadequate provision in our army and our navy. It has constantly been our Sysiphan task to recover what we have lost, and to keep what we have left. The campaign of last year opened in March and the ample [...]
February 5, 1863, The New York Herald The news which we published yesterday of the successful raid of the rebel iron-clads against our blockading force at Charleston is, so far as the number and value of the federal vessels destroyed are concerned, of but very little moment. The moral effect of the reverse, however, is [...]
February 5, 1863, The New York Herald We have news to the 30th ultimo from Vicksburg. At that day General Grant, chief in command, had arrived. The work of widening and deepening – the famous cutoff was progressing; but the rebels, snuffing their danger, had planted a battery on the opposite, or Mississippi, side of [...]
February 5, 1863, The New York Herald Our Memphis Correspondence. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 27, 1863. A portion of Gen. Grant’s army has already moved off in transports for Milliken’s Bend, and the remainder is on the way to this city to be transported to the same destination. In a week or two – judging by [...]
February 5, 1863, The New York Herald There is nothing new from the Army of the Potomac. Everything is quiet in that direction. The attack by the rebels on Fort Donelson, which we reported yesterday, resulted in their entire defeat. At the commencement of the action of the enemy took four of our guns at [...]
February 5, 1863, The New York Herald Since it seems to be now resolved that we are to have a negro army to put the finishing touches on the rebellion, it is to be hoped that no time will be lost in commencing a draft for that purpose. The one hundred and fifty thousand suggested [...]
February 5, 1863, The Charleston Mercury For fifteen months, or since the MUIR business, the esequatur of Mr. ROBERT BUNCH from the United States Government has been withdrawn. HE has been the Consular Agent of her Britannic Majesty at this port, and is now permanently withdrawn by his Government. We learn that, both from the [...]
February 4, 1863, The New York Herald We have unexpected news and rather startling in intelligence from Charleston for the entertainment of our readers this morning. We derive the news from a late number of the Richmond Dispatch, and the substance of it is, that on Saturday morning last the improvised rebel fleet of Charleston, [...]
February 4, 1863, The Charleston Mercury It is our sad office, today, to chronicle the death of the founder of this journal one who, for fourteen or fifteen years, was its editor and proprietor, and whose learning, talents and stainless character have adorned many positions of honor and usefulness, and wrought much good in this [...]
February 4, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We understand, from some of the officers of the captured gunboat Isaac P. Smith, that the fire of our sharpshooters during the engagement was so deadly as seriously to retard the working of their heavy guns, and that at one time they found no little difficulty inducing their crew [...]
February 4, 1863, The New York Herald Our news today is of more than usual importance. Telegrams from Charleston to the Richmond papers give accounts of a disaster to the blockading gunboats in Charleston harbor on Saturday, which is said to have resulted in the loss of two vessels sunk and four set on fire. [...]
February 4, 1863, The New York Herald Warning The following article contains wording that is offensive to many in the world of today. However, the article is provided unedited for its historical content and context. The bill for the formation of a negro army, which passed the United States House of Representatives on Monday last, [...]
February 3, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We agree with every word ‘Historicus’ has said against the intervention of France and England to end the war between Confederate and the United States, on the principles which governed their intervention in the case of Greece and Belgium. The readers of THE MERCURY will remember that, from the [...]
February 3, 1863, The New York Herald The latest news from Suffolk represents that the enemy was last night in force between sixteen and seventeen miles from there this side of the Blackwater. Our troops had taken every precaution to attack him again should he advance farther towards Suffolk. There is now no evidence that [...]
February 3, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Yesterday forenoon passed in the city and harbor without any stirring news or incident of note. About one o’clock a telegram from Fort Sumter announced that a strange steamer, evidently an iron-clad, had just hove in sight. The number of the ordinary blockading vessels strung along the horizon was [...]