February 3, 1863, The New York Herald The bill to raise black soldiers and sailors for the United States service was modified in some important particulars before it passed the House today. The border State members had given warning that recruiting officers for that purpose would be shot by the citizens if they should attempt [...]

February 3, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We take, from the Savannah News of yesterday, the following additional details in regard to the bombardment of Fort McAlister, at Genesis Point: The fort was but slightly injured. A portion of the parapet in front of the 10 inch Columbiad was destroyed; the gunners never flinched, but fought [...]

February 3, 1863, The New York Herald (From the Boston Post, Feb. 2.) General McClellan continues to receive numerous attention from our citizens. Wherever he goes he is greeted with demonstrations of the most friendly and enthusiastic nature. His visit to Boston, which was originally intended to have had all the quietness and obscurity of [...]

February 2, 1863, The New York Herald The Navy Department received a despatch last night announcing that the Union gunboat Isaac P. Smith – one of the recent government purchases – went ashore in Stono river on Saturday, and was captured by the enemy. She was commanded by Lieutenant Connover. The Richmond Examiner of that [...]

February 2, 1863, The New York Herald The operations of the Sumter, when she first began her depredations upon American commerce, put up insurance premiums so high upon all freights taken in American vessels as to cause many American merchants to turn their vessels over to English owners, who sail them under the English flag. [...]

February 2, 1863, The New York Herald There are men whom fate marks as its own – men who seem irresistibly to attract the masses, and who, almost without an effort, gain influence and power. Those men are instruments in the hands of Providence, and are imperatively called upon to fulfill their missions. Events the [...]

February 2, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Not since the memorable Saturday and Sunday which succeeded the fall of Fort Sumter, has our community been as elated as during the two days just gone by. Our ability to cope with and sink the hostile vessels which have so long sealed our harbor, is at length indisputably [...]

February 2, 1863, The Charleston Mercury In Saturday’s issue we briefly announced the capture of the Yankee gunboat Isaac P. Smith in the Stono River. We are now enabled to present to our readers the full particulars of the exploit. Several days ago a secret expedition was organized, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel YATES, [...]

February 2, 1863, The New York Herald The great, and to all appearance decisive, point of the war is the opening of the Mississippi river. With the exception of some small movements on the coast, all the most important operations of the campaign are now concentrated in that direction. The great Northwest demands the opening [...]

February 1, 1863, The New York Herald The expected fight at the Blackwater has come off. General Corcoran had a brilliant action with the rebel chief, Roger A. Pryor, on the night of the 29th, and completely defeated him. The conflict took place at a point ten miles from Suffolk, and the battle opened by [...]

February 1, 1863, The New York Herald With the report of a neat little victory achieved by General Corcoran on Friday last, near the Blackwater river, in Southeastern Virginia, our attention is naturally called to the movements and objects of the campaign in that quarter, on both sides. From Suffolk (which is some twenty miles [...]

February 1, 1863, The New York Herald The intelligence from Savannah, via rebel sources, is very important. General Pryor, who commands the rebels on the Blackwater, informed General Peck that he received information of a recent engagement near Savannah, in which the rebels had suffered defeat. The probable locality of the said defeat is on [...]

October 21, 1862, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois) From the Chicago Post. Our readers will remember some mention made in these columns of Mr. Montgomery, a gentleman connected with the Vicksburg Whig, who endeavored to escape from that place on board a federal boat carrying a flag of truce, but was given up by the officer [...]

October 12, 1862, Nashville Daily Union (Tennessee) There will be an immense amount of suffering in this city, the coming winter, if some provision is not speedily made for procuring fuel. The poor, especially, will be in a sad condition, if some measure is not adopted to procure a supply of wood. It is thought [...]

October 12, 1862, Nashville Dispatch (Tennessee) To the Editor of the Nashville Dispatch. In this cold and inclement “spell” of weather, with the prospect of a severe winter just ahead of us, the question is asked by every one, “How are we to get fuel?” With no earthly chance of procuring coal at present, if [...]

October 12, 1862, The New York Herald Our Jackson Correspondence. JACKSON, Tenn., Oct. 6, 1862. A few moments after the mail left today a despatch was received by Gen. Grant, from Gen. Rosecrans, announcing the most complete and overwhelming defeat of the rebels at the Hatchie, he, Rosecrans, having come up and attacked them in [...]

October 10, 1862, The New York Herald Our Cairo Correspondence. CAIRO, Oct. 6, 1862. The battle or series of battles at Corinth on the 4th, 5th and 6th of October, when the full details come in, will prove the finest achievements of federal arms during the present war. We are told from all sources that [...]

October 10, 1862, The Charleston Mercury (CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MERCURY.) RICHMOND, Monday, October 6. At last we hear something from the West, BUELL has advanced 21 miles from Louisville, 500 Confederate prisoners have been taken, and a great battle was daily expected. This we learn from the Philadelphia Inquirer of the 3d. The same paper [...]

October 10, 1862, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston) I have been appointed chief agent of the Army in Arkansas, to procure clothing, blankets, shoes, socks, and hats for our suffering soldiers. I appeal to the patriotic citizens of Southern Texas, particularly the ladies, for these articles. Your own husbands, fathers, brothers and sons are in this army. [...]

October 10, 1862, The New York Herald Our Louisville Correspondence. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 6, 1862. The news from the front today, while it is of an extremely interesting nature, yet has a smack of disappointment in it. At all points the rebels fly as our forces advance, without giving us a chance to fight them; [...]

October 8, 1862, The New York Herald The main body of the rebel army of Virginia, at least one hundred thousand strong, under General Lee, was, at the date of our last advices, encamped between Charlestown and Winchester, apparently awaiting and expecting an attack from General McClellan. The next rebel column in importance was that [...]

October 8, 1862, The Charleston Mercury (Correspondence of the Mobile Advertiser.) TUPELO, September 29. There are many inquiries as to the object and result of General Price’s late march to and retreat from Iuka, and a great desire to know whether it resulted in any advantage, or proved a failure or reverse. The palpable evidence [...]

October 8, 1862, Nashville Daily Union (Tennessee) A merchant at Independence Hill fourteen miles from Murfreesboro’, was robbed recently of $1,400 worth of goods and $4,000 in money by the guerrillas. His store was completely stripped. And these are the soldiers who protect our rights!

October 8, 1862, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser “Personne,” the correspondent of the Charleston Courier, recording some incidents of the late battles on Manassas Plains, mentions the following of an Alabama boy: It is related of a soldier belonging to the Eighth Alabama Regiment, that he found a Yankee in the woods, that being separated from his [...]