June 6, 1863, The Charleston Mercury LATEST FROM VICKSBURG. JACKSON, MISS., June 4. There has been heavy firing in the direction of Vicksburg all day, but we have no authentic intelligence from there since Sunday. A courier has arrived with intelligence that KIRBY SMITH threw his forces across the Mississippi, into Port Hudson, on Sunday. [...]
June 6, 1863, The New York Herald Correspondence of Mr. S.M. Carpenter. HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, May 27, 1863. THE GRAND ARMY has subsided. An oppressive dulness rests upon every one, and the sultry days wear away slowly, with our energies dormant and our zeal at zero. The cheering news from Vicksburg stirred us [...]
June 6, 1863, Menphis Daily Appeal (Atlanta, Ga) The Appeal printing material was principally saved by removal. Our regular issue was made, as usual, on the morning of the day the Federals entered the city, but through the energy of our attaches and the [...]
June 6, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The Richmond Whig remarks that the expulsion from the lines of the enemy of citizens suspected of loyalty to the States in which they live, pursued on so large a scale by BANKS in Louisiana, and in less degree in other States by minor myrmidons of the Despotism at [...]
June 6, 1863, The Charleston Mercury LATEST FROM RICHMOND AND THE NORTH. RICHMOND, June 4. Commodore PORTER’S official despatch to the Yankee Navy Department states that he had sent an expedition up the Yazoo, which destroyed or captured property amounting in value to $2,000,000, including three powerful rams and one monitor, 310 feet long (unfinished), [...]
June 6, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The destruction of property on Bull Island some days ago, and the recent raid on the Combahee, involving an immense loss of property, is followed by the burning of the beautiful town of Bluffton, on May River. This last outrage took place on Thursday morning last, and resulted in [...]
June 6, 1863, The New York Herald A despatch from the rear of Vicksburg, on the 31st ult., states that the bombardment of the city continued with great rapidity from midnight till daylight, doing considerable damage. Twelve rebels who were attempting to run our pickets and get into Vicksburg, and having 200,000 percussion caps in [...]
June 5, 1863, American Citizen (Canton, Mississippi) There are at this time several hundred patients in the different hospitals in this place. The men are from almost every part of the Confederate States, far away from their families and friends, and deprived of the [...]
June 5, 1863, The New York Herald Unofficial reports received in Washington yesterday, which are considered entirely reliable, state that up to the 31st ult. no material change in the affairs at Vicksburg had occurred, and that no fighting had taken place for several days. A despatch from Washington yesterday also sates that a rebel [...]
June 5, 1863, The New York Herald THE WALNUT HILLS. Our Walnut Hills Correspondence. HEADQUARTERS, SEVENTEENTH (McPHERSON’S) CORPS, WALNUT HILLS, REAR OF VICKSBURG, May 18, 1863. THE BRIDGING AND CROSSING OF THE BIG BLACK RIVER. The successful assault upon the enemy’s works on Big Black river yesterday morning resulted in driving his main force away [...]
June 5, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We would earnestly commend the attempt at relief undertaken by the Banks of this city, as sketched in the subjoined resolutions. No object could be presented which would more command the heartfelt sympathies of our whole people; none which more explicitly involves their fidelity and honor. To abandon these [...]
June 5, 1863, The Charleston Mercury IMPORTANT FROM THE COAST – BLUFFTON BURNED BY THE ENEMY. (Official Despatches) POCOTALIGO, June 4. To Gen. Jordan: Lieut Col. JOHNSON reports that the enemy has just fired the town of Bluffton. Our skirmishers have engaged them. I consider our force already there sufficient to prevent an advance. W. [...]
June 5, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Our enemies are elated with the vain hope of starving us out. Is there a man in the Confederate States who entertains a doubt of our ability to feed ourselves and our army? If there be such an individual, we refer him to the statistics of our export of [...]
June 5, 1863, Charleston Mercury [From the Staunton (Va.) Spectator. Brigadier General Roberts came into Weston week before last, after our forces under Gen. Imboden had passed through, and commenced a series of tyrannical acts alone worthy of abolition commanders. They delivered copies of [...]
June 4, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We have gathered some additional particulars of the recent destructive Yankee raid along the banks of the Combahee. The latest official despatch from Gen. WALKER, dated Green Pond, eleven o’clock Tuesday night, and which was received here on Wednesday morning, conveyed intelligence that the enemy had entirely disappeared. It [...]
June 4, 1863, The New York Herald Up to noon yesterday no advices touching any late movements of the army before Vicksburg had been received by the government. All stories of attacks and repulses of Grant army are totally discredited. It is stated in despatches from Cincinnati yesterday, by way of Cairo, that the base [...]
June 4, 1863, Semi-Weekly News (San Antonio, Texas) A short time since, Col. Bankhead ordered a cavalry company to Medina County to arrest conscripts; Castroville was surrounded and about twenty were taken out of about one hundred and fifty in the County; the remainder [...]
June 4, 1863, The New York Herald THE REBEL POSITION IN THE GULF. The rebels are determined to intensify their strength on several, as it were, cardinal points of their so-called confederacy, and one of the principal of these points in Mobile. A large sum of money and a great amount of labor have been [...]
June 4, 1863, The Charleston Mercury LATEST FROM VICKSBURG. JACKSON, May 30. No fighting at Vicksburg. The enemy has quit the storming process, and is going to try the starving. From reliable authority I learn that GRANT is entrenching in parallel lines with our batteries, but out of reach of our guns, and cutting off [...]
June 4, 1863, The New York Herald The great struggle for the Mississippi is now reduced to two points, the capture of which will give to the government the complete control of the great river from its sources to the sea, and the loss of which by the rebellion will be as decisive against it [...]
June 3, 1863, Galveston Weekly News The Shreveport South Western says, that large droves of slaves daily pass through that place on their way to Texas. The editor suggests that they should be taken to the wheat region of Texas, as he is requested [...]
June 3, 1863, The Charleston Mercury A despatch from Pocotaligo stated that at an early hour yesterday morning the enemy made a raid towards the Combahee Ferry. They destroyed the pontoon bridge at the Ferry, and set fire to many dwellings on the river banks. Three hundred of the Yankees landed at Field’s Point, supposed [...]
June 3, 1863, Galveston Weekly News The Telegraph publishes a long letter from Gen. H. E. McCulloch, dated Camden, Ark, April 30, in which he dwells upon the reported sufferings of soldiers’ families, and denounces the heartless speculators and extortioners in severe terms. Judging [...]
June 3, 1863, The Charleston Mercury FROM NEW ORLEANS. ATLANTA, GA., June 2. New Orleans refugees arrived here state that it was believed at New Orleans that FARRAGUT, finding his ship, the Hartford, in a sinking condition and too weak to return past the batteries at Port Hudson, stopped the vessel and destroyed her near [...]
June 3, 1863, The New York Herald The latest news from Vicksburg is to the 29th ult., last Friday. No change in the condition of affairs there had occurred, but the prospects of General Grant were regarded as […..].” News from Memphis to the 1st inst. recounts the destruction of the United States gunboat Cincinnati [...]