May 30, 1863, The New York Herald OUR SPECIAL ARMY CORRESPONDENCE. BRIDGE ACROSS BIG BLACK, May 17, 1863. The battle of Big Black bridge was fought on Sunday, the 17th, the day after the battle of Champion’s Hill. In this spirited engagement only the Thirteenth army corps was engaged. It is superfluous to add that [...]
May 30, 1863, The New York Herald Our Hilton Head Correspondence. HILTON HEAD, S.C., May 24, 1863. Again I am compelled to employ that stereotyped phrase, “All quiet in the Department of the South.” But little has occurred of interest since my last correspondence, and an earnest and careful search for indications of active operations [...]
May 30, 1863, The New York Herald Despatches from General Grant were received at the War Department yesterday, which are more satisfactory because of an official and reliable character relative to the condition of affairs at Vicksburg. General Grant’s despatches are dated Monday, the 25th instant, three days later than the previous despatches received by [...]
May 30, 1863, The New York Herald OUR SPECIAL ARMY CORRESPONDENCE. THREE MILES IN THE REAR OF VICKSBURG, May 20, 1863. The army crossed the river early on Monday morning over the bridge constructed during the night by General Lee. General Osterhaus’ division first crossed, followed by General A. J. Smith, which in turn was [...]
May 30, 1863, The New York Herald OUR SPECIAL ARMY CORRESPONDENCE. EDWARDS’ STATION, May 16, 1863. Early on the morning of the day following the occupation of the city of Jackson it was decided to evacuate the position. There were several reasons which induced General Grant to arrive at this decision, prominent among which was [...]
May 30, 1863, The New York Herald Three cases of treason have been tried in the Army of the Potomac of prisoners captured in the rebel service while still citizens of the United States. One of them is the case of James R. Oliver, who being a citizen of Maryland, was taken prisoner while in [...]
May 30, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We see, from the newspapers in various quarters, indications of dissatisfaction with the people of Charleston, in consequence of the foreign commerce carried on by her merchants. The running of the blockade – exporting cotton and importing goods – is regarded as unpatriotic, and injurious to the interests of [...]
May 30, 1863, The Charleston Mercury LATEST NEWS FROM VICKSBURG. JACKSON, MISS, May 25 – (To the Mobile Advertiser.) – Com. BROWN sunk four boats in Yazoo River, which blockaded it, saving all the others. The Mississippian publishes a statement that it was MARMADUKE, not PRICE, who captured Helena. It is reported that he hung [...]
May 30, 1863, Charleston Mercury The people of Mobile have exerted themselves most energetically and humanely to provide for the transportation from Pascagoula and shelter in their city of the large number of refugees which the barbarous edict of the Yankee Government has driven [...]
May 29, 1863, The New York Herald THE SIEGE. WASHINGTON, May 28, 1863. The latest information from Vicksburg received by the government is contained in an unofficial despatch from Memphis, dated May 27, which states that two boats from Vicksburg had just reached Memphis. The telegram says he official despatches have been received by these [...]
May 29, 1863, The New York Herald The latest official news from Vicksburg still remains as we first announced it – only up to Friday night at nine o’clock– just a week ago. Several reports from rebel sources and others have reached us since, and have been published in order as they arrived. Vicksburg is [...]
May 29, 1863, The Charleston Mercury IMPORTANT FROM VICKSBURG. RICHMOND, May 28. – An official telegram from General JOHHSTON, dated yesterday, states that General STEVENSON reports that hard fighting has been going on at Vicksburg since Tuesday last with continued success, and that our men are confident of their ability to hold the place, and [...]
May 29, 1863, The Charleston Mercury THE MEDICAL PURVEYOR of Charleston has left at our office, for inspection, a lump of Opium collected from the Garden Poppy, by G.B. FARMER, Esq., from his grounds at Walterboro’. Mr. FARMER has a variety of the Garden Poppy – double and single, and of various colors. His Poppies, [...]
May 29, 1863, The Charleston Mercury ‘They were both killed by the first fire, and died without a struggle. Their bodies were delivered to their friends from Kentucky by order of Gen. BURNSIDE.’ Thus read the telegrams from Sandusky, Ohio, announcing the execution of T.P MCGRAW and WM. CORBIN, who were sentenced to death, we [...]
May 29, 1863, The Charleston Mercury It will be recollected how great, in the beginning of the war, was the anxiety which filled the breast of every patriot in relation to the scarcity of powder in the Confederate States. Every grain was husbanded; each sportsman and farmer brought in his little store, and poured it [...]
May 28, 1863, Tyler Reporter The idea has been suggested to us that, under present circumstances, it would be wise and safe to organize companies of Minute Men in every portion of the State, and especially in Eastern Texas. Banks’ late raid into Louisiana [...]
May 28, 1863, The Charleston Mercury THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG. LATEST OFFICIAL DESPATCHES. The following despatches, from General PEMBERTON, the commander at Vicksburg, were sent to Jackson, Mississippi, and from thence telegraphed to President DAVIS; VICKSBURG, May 20. – The enemy assaulted our entrenchments yesterday on our centre and left. They were repulsed with heavy [...]
May 28, 1863, Natchez Daily Courier Permit me to call your attention to one deserving your ever ready sympathies. A noble, patriotic, devoted woman, a resident of this city, has lately returned home on a visit to her children, after an absence of two [...]
May 28, 1863, The Ranchero (Corpus Christi, Texas) We learn from the True Issue that the Chief Justice of Fayette county has invested nine thousand dollars of the State bounty for the relief of soldier’s families, into cotton and shipped it to the Rio [...]
May 28, 1863, The Ranchero (Corpus Christi, Texas) A number of officers stationed at this post, taking advantage of the short stay of Gen. Magruder, and staff, here, tendered them a complimentary ball on the 20th inst., at Anacreon Hall, which was accepted. We [...]
May 28, 1863, The New York Herald The latest news which the government has received from Vicksburg is by way of Memphis, up to four o’clock on the morning of the 24th ult. Vicksburg was then holding out, and Grant was hopeful of success. It is said that a storm interrupted telegraphic communication between Memphis [...]
May 28, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas) Col. Wilcox while here gave us a correct drawing of the new Confederate flag, and a description of the seal. The flag is white, with a red union, having a St. Andrew’s cross of blue, on each [...]
May 28, 1863, The New York Herald Our Army Correspondence. CROSSING OF BIG BLACK RIVER, May 16, 1863. GENERAL GRANT’S RAPID MARCHING. The situation remains unchanged at this point. When we arrived here on the heels of the retreating enemy, the army was entirely exhausted. We had marched continuously from Milliken’s Bend for seven days, [...]
May 28, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas) We were gratified yesterday by receiving a long visit from the talented representative in Congress of the San Antonio District, who gave us a great deal of valuable information, and buoyed us up with his testimony of [...]
May 27, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser In the “Home Department” of the New Orleans True Delta, of a recent date, we find the following account of the efforts now being made to prevent the schoolmistresses of New Orleans from teaching the young ideas rebelward. [...]