June 3, 1863, The Charleston Mercury One good lesson, says the Richmond Enquirer, may be learned from late events; and especially from the manner in which that Yankee raid through North Alabama into Georgia was met and ended. The lesson is, that old men, boys, and even girls, may and can, by a little timely [...]
June 3, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) The following extract from a letter received from Jackson, Miss., is but in keeping with the conduct of the enemy against whom we are battling. * [...]
June 3, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) (From the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel.) We have had the pleasure of an interview with a gentleman recently from Camden, Ark., who has kindly furnished us with some facts in regard to the situation of affairs in that [...]
June 3, 1863, The New York Herald Our latest accounts from Vicksburg are down to the 29th of May (Friday last), at which time the prospects of the siege were […..] encouraging.” We think the issue must be determined now within a very few days; that the garrison is holding out in expectation of a [...]
June 3, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser Within the past two or three weeks several thousand citizens of New Orleans, who have during the long occupancy of that city remained faithful to the Confederacy, have been compelled to leave their homes and go beyond the [...]
June 3, 1863, Galveston Weekly News Our sister State of Louisiana is overrun by the enemy! Thousands of her daughters are in their hands, and subjected to insult and abuse from a brutal Yankee, foreign and negro soldiery! Think of their condition, and remember [...]
June 2, 1863, The New York Herald THE UNION AND REBEL CAVALRY COMPARED. The superior efficiency of the Southern cavalry over the Northern has been repeatedly asserted, and until very recently it was almost impossible to gainsay the fact. The well mounted light horsemen of Morgan have swept like a hurricane over the fertile regions [...]
June 2, 1863, The New York Herald The mysterious and threatening movements of the rebel army of Virginia have created the suspicion that it is the intention of General Lee to repeat immediately his aggressive campaign of last summer. Under this idea we are assured there is another great scare in Washington. According to our [...]
June 2, 1863, Dawsons Daily Times and Union (Fort Wayne, Indiana) If the Abolitionists and Republicans; if Lincoln and Seward desire the Union to be restored, why did they so conduct themselves as to break it up? Why did they proclaim the “Irrepressible Conflict? Why did they treat the Constitution as a covenant with death [...]
June 2, 1863, The New York Herald When General Hooker was before the Congressional committee sundry questions were put to him which accomplished what they were intended to do, and brought out, not the truth, but General Hooker. He was purposely given an opportunity to say to the country, from a high standpoint, whatever he [...]
June 2, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) The body of a white man, aged about twenty-five years, wearing a striped shirt and pants of homespun, corresponding with the clothing worn by the Confederate marines of this post, was discovered floating in the Savannah river yesterday [...]
June 2, 1863, The New York Herald Our Baltimore Correspondence. BALTIMORE, May 31, 1863. I have come into possession today of the following facts in regard to the present actual condition of the Southern railroads and the rolling stock on them, which have an important bearing on the present military operations both at the West [...]
June 2, 1863, Dawsons Daily Times and Union (Fort Wayne, Indiana) Dates from Vicksburg are to the 28th ult. There had been no fighting of consequence since the 24th. The most formidable forts remain to be taken. The rebels seem to think their positon impregnable.– Johnson, with 20,000 men, was reported to be moving to [...]
June 2, 1863, The New York Herald The latest reports from the scene of operations around Vicksburg are to the 27th, by way of Cincinnati, to the effect that three assaults had been made by our forces on the rebel stronghold, in all of which we were repulsed. The last assault was made by General [...]
June 2, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) On Thursday morning last, about the hour of seven o’clock, Mrs. Mena Landgraff, wife of Charles A. Landgraff, who is now a member of Company D, First Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, left her residence, situated at the corner of [...]
June 2, 1863, Dawsons Daily Times and Union (Fort Wayne, Indiana) The President, it is reported, means to have Ge. McClellan mustered out of the United States’ service and to give Gen. Grant the Major Generalship in the regular army thus made vacant.
June 2, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) From the Knoxville Register. After a visit to the Rappahannock army, the writer of this made a parting call on General Jackson, in his tent. As we stood exchanging the last words, some reference was made to [...]
June 1, 1863, The New York Herald THE BOMBARDMENT OF VICKSBURG. Correspondence of Mr. A.H. Bodman. NEAR VICKSBURG, May 22, 1863. AROUND THE REBEL WORKS. This is the fourth day the army of General Grant has lain around the intrenchments of Vicksburg. Within that time there have been daily battles and continual cannonade. At least [...]
June 1, 1863, The Charleston Mercury IMPORTANT FROM THE RAPPAHANNOCK. RICHMOND, May 30. The Fredericksburg correspondent of the Examiner says that the indications and intelligence from the enemy’s camps on the Rappahannock, favor the conclusion that the Yankee forces are evacuating the position they have so long held in Stafford county, but their destination is [...]
June 1, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Our telegrams inform us that GRANT, after making seven bloody but fruitless assaults upon our entrenched positions at Vicksburg, has gone to […..] in the rear of the Hilled City. This says the Mobile Advertiser, means regular siege operations and an attempt to starve a garrison that he cannot [...]
June 1, 1863, Charleston Mercury With deep regret we announce the destruction, by fire, on the night of the 25th inst., of the paper mill of Messrs. John W. Grady & Co., near this place. The above mill was used exclusively for the manufacture [...]
June 1, 1863, The New York Herald A despatch received at the Navy Department yesterday from Admiral Porter, near Vicksburg, reports that in the recent attack at Haines’ Bluff three powerful steamers and a ram were destroyed at Yazoo City. The ram was a monster, three hundred and ten feet long, seventy feet beam, to [...]
May 31, 1863, The New York Herald The Progress of the Siege of the City. THE BATTLE AND CAPTURE OF JACKSON. JACKSON, Miss., May 14, 1863. IN POSSESSION OF JACKSON. The Union army have undisturbed possession of Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, and the headquarters of the Department of Mississippi and Eastern Louisiana. The federal [...]
May 31, 1863, The New York Herald There appears to be no later reliable news from Vicksburg than that of Monday last, the 25th inst., which we published yesterday. Despatches from various points – Cincinnati, St. Louis and elsewhere – give many vague reports, out of which may be gathered the fact that no news [...]
May 30, 1863, Standard (Clarksville, Texas) Camp Butler, Creek Nation, } May 12th, 1863. } Dear Standard: I believe my last was from Fort [...]