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June 10, 1863, The New York Herald A despatch from Murfreesboro’ dated yesterday, says that a lady who had just arrived from Shelbyville reports the surrender of Vicksburg with its entire garrison of 12,000 men. Later arrivals at the same place repeat the rumor, and it was stated that some rebel papers (names nor locations [...]

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June 10, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser                       The fiends, under Cornyn, developed, as usual, the absence of all manly instincts in their depredations on women.  For instance:                       They robbed a poor old lady of [...]

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June 10, 1863, Southern Banner (Athens, Georgia) Rev. H. B. Pratt Chaplain of the Sixty-third North Carolina, writes to the N. C. Presbyterian:                       Allow me to make another suggestion.–Down in these swamp lands of Eastern North Carolina, we find an innumerable multitude of what [...]

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June 10, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser                       We have before us a letter written by a lady of this State to her husband, who is now in prison for the grave offense of taking up arms against his own State.  This noble woman writes in [...]

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June 10, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser                       We have been requested by a correspondent to correct an error which occurred in our account of the young lady who piloted Gen. Forrest to a ford on Black Creek in his pursuit of the Yankee marauders.  It [...]

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June 10, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)                       We have just seen a gentleman from the neighborhood of Edward’s Depot, who informs us that the vandals are making a clean sweep of everything in that vicinity.  They have burnt every gin and mill, and in many [...]

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June 10, 1863, The New York Herald Our Walnut Hills Correspondence. HEADQUARTERS, SEVENTEENTH (McPHERSON’S) ARMY CORPS, WALNUT HILLS, REAR OF VICKSBURG, May 22, 1863. For several days the disposition of the troops designed for the reduction of Vicksburg has been going on with unceasing energy. The peculiar formation of the country in this vicinity makes [...]

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June 10, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)                       The following rules are enforced by the officers of the Unites States Government, in regard to letters offered for transmission under flag of truce by way of City Point:                   [...]

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June 10, 1863, The New York Herald Our Vicksburg Correspondence. NEAR VICKSBURG, May 29, 1863. The movements on the part of the Union army have been very quiet for the last three days. Cannonading at intervals during the day, and constant and continual firing by our skirmishers whenever any attempt is made to work the [...]

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June 10, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser From the Staunton Spectator.                       Brig. Gen. Roberts came into Weston week before last, after our forces under Gen. Imboden has passed through and commenced a series of tyrannical acts alone worthy of abolition commanders.         [...]

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June 10, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)                       An order from the Federal War Department directs that within the States of Tennessee and Mississippi, wherever the Federals have the rule, all citizens shall be registered in three classes:  First, avowed enemies; second, neutral foreigners; third, loyal [...]

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June 10, 1863, The New York Herald From all the information in our possession, from Union and from rebel sources, we consider the fall of Vicksburg inevitable, that there is no earthly chance of escape for it, and that in all probability before the expiration of the present week we shall have the news of [...]

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June 10, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois)                       Deputy Sheriff Stewart and officer Guill were sent for yesterday to suppress a disturbance at Kingston Mines, which bid fare to amount to considerable of a riot.  There being a strike at the mines for higher wages, [...]

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June 9, 1863, Menphis Daily Appeal (Atlanta, Ga)                       A letter in a Northern paper says:  “One of the houses destroyed by the Queen of the West on her trip down the Mississippi belonged to an old gentleman, who, with his two sons and daughters, [...]

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June 9, 1863, The New York Herald Visit to the Fifth Corps Hospital and the Camp of Sykes’ Regulars. MR. W. BUCKINGHAM’S LETTER. NEAR STAFFORD COURT HOUSE, Va., June 4, 1863. LOCATION OF THE HOSPITAL. I accidentally became acquainted with Major Augustus M. Clark the other day, who is the surgeon in charge of the [...]

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June 9, 1863, The New York Herald Our news from the Army of the Rappahannock confirms the statement that the rebels still occupy Fredericksburg. Reports received in Washington yesterday say that the First Division of the Sixth army corps were still in position on the south bank of the river which they occupied on Friday. [...]

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June 9, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (From Blackwood’sMagazine, for January.) In visiting the headquarters of the Confederate Generals, but particularly those of General Lee, any one accustomed to see European armies in the field cannot fail to be struck with the great absence of all the pomp and circumstance of war in and around their [...]

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June 9, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia)                       Ed. Enquirer:  The particulars of this horrible murder we hasten to lay before your readers.  The awful deed was committed at midnight, on Ashley’s Farm, near Mount Hebron Church.  Hear the confession of the dastardly wretch:  It [...]

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June 9, 1863, The Charleston Mercury THE NEWS FROM RICHMOND. RICHMOND, June 8. The Yankees who crossed the Rappahannock advanced on Saturday to take possession of Hamilton’s Crossing, supposing that our forces had moved from that vicinity. When they had approached within a mile and a half of the railroad, two or three of our [...]

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June 9, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia)                       We learn that some enterprising gentlemen from Georgia went to Tennessee, a short time ago, and purchased a paper mill that was exposed to the enemy, and succeeded in removing its machinery just before a raid of [...]

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June 8, 1863, The Charleston Mercury LATEST FROM THE RAPPAHANNOCK. RICHMOND, June 7. Letters from Hamilton’s Crossing state that a brigade of Yankees, with six pieces of artillery, have crossed the Rappahannock near Fredericksburg, and taken up a position in the vicinity of the site of the Bernard House. The movement is supposed to be [...]

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June 8, 1863, The New York Herald General Grant does not appear to have ever made a speech, or to have told any one what he would like to do against the rebels. No phrases of his live in the popular memory, and he does not even electrify the nation or the troops under his [...]

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June 8, 1863, The New York Herald The government received despatches from Vicksburg last night dated up to Wednesday, the 3d inst. The siege was then still going on; but not a word of the particulars of the operations there appears to have been received, or, at least, not promulgated. Despatches from Cairo yesterday say [...]

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June 8, 1863, The Charleston Mercury In our issue of Saturday we gave a list of houses destroyed by the enemy during their recent raid against Bluffton. As matter of general interest to our readers we give a list of the houses that were spared by the fire. In many instances the fine old shade [...]

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June 8, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We gather from our Western exchanges the following additional information of the progress of hostilities at Vicksburg: A despatch from Rodney to the Natchez Courier states, on the authority of a paroled prisoner, that the enemy’s dead were five to one of ours on the battle field of Baker’s [...]

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