June 12, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Day by day the track of the destroyer becomes broader. Two-thirds of Virginia, two-thirds of Tennessee, the coasts of North and South Carolina, part of Georgia, nearly all of Florida, Northern Mississippi, Western and Southern Louisiana, a great part of Arkansas and Missouri, have already been laid waste, and [...]
June 12, 1863, The New York Herald Our latest advices from Vicksburg are to the 8th inst. They come from General Grant himself to official persons in Washington. Up to that date the siege was progressing satisfactorily. On the 4th inst. General Grant and General Banks were in communication, Port Hudson at that time, which [...]
June 12, 1863, Corinth Chanticleer (Corinth, Ms) A female, apparently very ill, was relieved by a family in Chicago, a few days since, and in accounting for her appearance in that city, stated that her name was Anna Lilleybridge of Detroit, and that her [...]
June 12, 1863, Corinth Chanticleer (Corinth, Ms) Last Sunday we visited the camp of the First Alabama Negro regiment, and were highly gratified with the appearance of the camp, and the soldierly looking men. We look for big things from those hitherto unfortunate men, [...]
June 12, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) Several families from St. Augustine, Fla., arrived in this city on Wednesday night, by flag of truce via Hilton Head and Pocotaligo, among them Mrs. Smith, the mother of Gen. Kirby Smith, Mrs. B. A. Putnam, wife of [...]
June 12, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The Richmond Examiner, in alluding to the condition of our currency at the present time, says that it is believed with apparent reason to be now at the worst; that is to say, the greatest amount of it that has ever been, and will ever be, outstanding, is in [...]
June 12, 1863, Corinth Chanticleer (Corinth, Ms) An old maid, who has her eyes a little sideways on matrimony, says: “The curse of this war is, that it will make so many widows, that will be so fierce to get married and who know [...]
June 12, 1863, Corinth Chanticleer (Corinth, Ms) Camp 1st Ala. Loyal Inft. Near Corinth, Miss. June 8th, 1863. Mr. Editor:–You ask for information about the colored regiment, how we get along, and what we think of it. Well, I must say that with all [...]
June 12, 1863, The New York Herald Its Defences Described by a Confederate Prisoner. We have received the following account of the defences of Port Hudson, of the strength of its garrison and its means generally to resist the efforts now being made to reduce it from a young Kentuckian who happened to be in [...]
June 12, 1863, Corinth Chanticleer (Corinth, Ms) There is nothing that tells with such striking examples the difference between the northern and southern armies,–their habits–and mode of living, than the difference in their military posts, and the vast change which they undergo after falling [...]
June 12, 1863, The New York Herald Sights and Scenes Along the Route – Inside View of the South, &c. MR. W. YOUNG’S LETTER. ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, June 9, 1863. SCENES IN AND ABOUT URBANNA. In Urbanna, on the south side of the Rappahannock, where Kilpatrick’s cavalry took steam transports for the opposite shore [...]
June 12, 1863, The New York Herald Ever since there have been military schools at which generals are professedly made there have been discussions as to whether generals could be made anywhere else. Against the fact that there were great generals before there were military academies the believers in the latter do not deign to [...]
June 12, 1863, The Charleston Mercury THE BATTLE OF BRANDY STATION. RICHMOND, June 11. The battle of Tuesday occurred at Brandy Station, on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, five miles beyond Culpeper C. H. The accounts, so far, are very conflicting; but there seems to be no doubt that the attack of the enemy was [...]
June 12, 1863, American Citizen (Canton, Mississippi) We will pay eight cents per pound for all clean white linen or cotton rags, delivered at this office. Money will neither make nor buy paper; rags alone will do. If our friends will bring in the [...]
June 12, 1863, Corinth Chanticleer (Corinth, Ms) There is many a mother who has sent her son into the army as a “little drummer boy” who little thought of the ruin she was bringing upon her child. The army is no place for children. [...]
June 12, 1863, The New York Herald We have been struck by the number of medals and crosses which are to be observed on the breasts of the returned officers and soldiers of the Army of the Potomac. These have no doubt been all gallantly earned; but, as they have no national character, and are [...]
June 12, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Contrary to expectation, the Yankees on yesterday still remained on the south bank of the Rappahannock, at Deep Run. They occupied the angle formed by the creek and the river, and were throwing up a line of entrenchments of a mile in length, extending from Bernard’s house up to [...]
June 11, 1863, Clarke County Journal (Alabama) A correspondent of the Savannah News, writing from near Jackson, says: I saw yesterday and the day before, two hundred and seventy-two Yankee prisoners, who were [...]
June 11, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The Crescent City must present a dreary and doleful appearance. The Picayune says that a general desire is evinced on the part of the members for the commercial community to withdraw from the city for a time. The great streets, Plydras, Tchoupitoulas, and New Levee, where the great Western [...]
June 11, 1863, The New York Herald We give to our readers this morning such details as have come to hand of the late severely contested and sanguinary cavalry fight on the Rappahannock. As the force on the Union side engaged was probably not less than ten thousand men, and as the struggle – hand [...]
June 11, 1863, The Charleston Mercury In our last we mentioned that Hooker, on Friday morning, was transporting his pontoons down to the Rappahannock, at Deep Run, two miles below Fredericksburg, and making a demonstration, as if about to cross at that point. About four o’clock, p.m., under a tremendous fire of artillery, directed towards [...]
June 11, 1863, The New York Herald We give today very full details of the brilliant and successful cavalry fight on the Rappahannock, near Beverly Ford, on Tuesday morning – the results of which we before published – and which put a sudden check upon the enemy intention to invade Maryland and Pennsylvania with a [...]
June 11, 1863, Menphis Daily Appeal (Atlanta, Ga) The arrest of Miss Hozier at Norfolk, with a plan of the fortifications there, and a full statement of the Federal forces and their position, has been published. The young lady lives a few miles this side of Suffolk, and had been to Norfolk on a visit. [...]
June 11, 1863, The New York Herald The Cavalry Fight on the Rappahannock. WASHINGTON, June 10, 1863. The cavalry engagement in the vicinity of Beverly Ford, on the Rappahannock (a brief sketch of which we published yesterday), was a desperate hand to hand encounter, both during the advance and retreat of our forces. The enemy’s [...]
June 10, 1863, Menphis Daily Appeal (Atlanta, Ga) A gentleman belonging to the service, now absent from his command on account of wounds received in a late battle, twenty-five years of age, fair personal attractions and moderate income, wishes to make the acquaintance of a young lady with a view to matrimony. The young lady [...]