May 27, 1863, Galveston Weekly News Passengers by the Central train yesterday report that the leading thoroughfares of travel in the country are filled with refugees from Louisiana, on their way to some place where they can find corn plenty and Yankees scarce. A [...]
May 27, 1863, The New York Herald Grant’s three weeks’ brilliant campaign against Vicksburg proves him to be a general of no common order. He is the only Union general now in the field the celerity of whose operations can bear a comparison with the achievements of Napoleon in his campaign in Italy and Germany. [...]
May 27, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) Augusta, May 23, 1863. Mr. Editor:–Having read in the morning papers of this day, May 23d, a set of resolutions drawn up and signed by J. N. Taliaferro, Capt. and Edward Clayton, Secretary, of the “gallant Walker Light [...]
May 27, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Our readers will remember that, some four years ago, it was proposed, in the City Council, to sell two large lots on South Bay, purchased during the administration of Mr. MILES, with a view to the extension of the Battery Garden westward towards Ashley River. Although at first the [...]
May 27, 1863, The Charleston Mercury NEWS FROM THE WEST. TULLAHOMA, May 25. – All is quiet in front. The Nashville Union of May 22d contains Cairo dates of the 20th. Col. CLANTON had made a raid towards Little Rock, destroying 200,000 bushels of corn, several large buildings filled with commissary stores, and many grist [...]
May 27, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, contains about 10,000 inhabitants, and is situated on Pearl River, about forty-six miles east of Vicksburg, and about two hundred miles north of New Orleans. The Southern Mississippi Railroad, from Vicksburg to Meridian, Miss., and the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad to [...]
May 27, 1863, The New York Herald SUCCESS OF ADMIRAL PORTER’S EXPEDITION UP THE YAZOO. SKETCH OF YAZOO CITY AND VICINITY. Yazoo City is a post village of Yazoo county, Mississippi, of which county it is the capital. At one time it was a very flourishing place for a Southern inland village, its trade arising [...]
May 27, 1863, The New York Herald OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. OPELOUSAS, La., May 2, 1863. I shall now attempt to give you some slight account of our operations from Brashear City to this place. We left Brashear City April 11. The advance was under General Weitzel, who, after starting up the bay three miles to [...]
May 27, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We have heard of some recent instances of straggling on the part of Confederate troops, while on their way to the post of danger, which call for the reprobation of the people, and punishment, prompt and stern, from the military authorities. In the present position of affairs, the country [...]
May 27, 1863, The New York Herald There is no official account as yet of the capture of Vicksburg. The latest reliable news is up to Friday evening, the whole details of which we have already published. At the time Vicksburg was not taken. All the facts in connection with the battles fought during the [...]
May 27, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (Correspondence of the Mobile Advertiser.) JACKSON, May 19. – I sit down to write you relative to the stirring events of the last ten days, but without any knowledge of how or when I will be enabled to forward my letter, but trust to good luck. FROM MOBILE TO [...]
May 27, 1863, The New York Herald The Correspondence of Mr. E.L. Maynard. HEADQUARTERS, SECOND BRIGADE, SECOND CAVALRY DIVISION, ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE, HELENA, Ark., May 15, 1863. I informed your readers in my last letter that the authorities had determined to break up the guerilla bands that have caused us so much trouble of [...]
May 26, 1863, The New York Herald As yet we have no official intelligence confirmatory of the news published yesterday of the actual capture of Vicksburg; but we have an important official despatch from Admiral Porter to the Secretary of the Navy, dated the 20th instant, which fully confirms all the accounts we had previously [...]
May 26, 1863, The New York Herald The capture of Vicksburg, incalculably more than any other achievement of the war, weakens the armies of the rebellion, and simplifies the work of their subjugation. In recovering the whole line of the Mississippi we not only cut off the rebellious States on the west side of the [...]
May 26, 1863, The Charleston Mercury A Western correspondent of the Columbia Guardian sums up the results, thus far, of GRANT’S movement against the rear of Vicksburg: Let us view stern facts and deduct our own conclusions as to the final termination of affairs about Vicksburg and Jackson. First, then, it is a fact that [...]
May 26, 1863, The New York Herald DETAILS OF THE BATTLES. The Advance on Raymond. RAYMOND, 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JACKSON, MISS. May 13, 1863. When I last wrote Gen. McClernand was on the extreme right, with Osterhaus’ division advanced to Rocky Spring. General McPherson at that time lay, with his army corps to the [...]
May 26, 1863, The Charleston Mercury LATE AND CHEERING NEWS FROM VICKSBURG. JACKSON, May 23. – Troops are continually arriving here, and Gen. JOHNSTON will soon have a fine army. The city is being fortified. The Mississippian, of Saturday, says: The enemy attacked Vicksburg six times on yesterday, and each time was defeated with immense [...]
May 26, 1863, The New York Herald Important Official Despatch of Admiral Porter. Fleet Captain of the Mississippi Squadron. FLAGSHIP BLACKHAWK, HAINES’ BLUFF, YAZOO RIVER, May 20, 1863. Hon. GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy: – On the morning of the 15th I came over to the Yazoo to be ready to co- operate with [...]
May 26, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) Not long since we heard a young lady say that hereafter she intended to buy none but homespun dresses. It was a wise conclusion, and we hope every woman in the Confederacy will follow her example, and [...]
May 26, 1863, The New York Herald The battles of General Grant in the vicinity of Vicksburg, and the brilliant victories of Admiral Porter on the Yazoo, have to be numbered among the most successful operations of the war. Admiral Porter, in his official despatch, dated from the Yazoo river, on the 20th inst., details [...]
May 26, 1863, The New York Herald Our Yorktown Correspondence. YORKTOWN, May 22 – 2 P.M. About sunset on Tuesday evening, the 19th inst., the casual observer at Yorktown must have notices the unusual number of persons on what are, par excellence, termed streets. The evening was beautiful and the air fresh, compared with that [...]
May 26, 1863, The New York Herald The Battle of Baker’s Creek. CHAMPION HILLS, TWENTY-SIX MILES EAST OF VICKSBURG, May 16, 1863. Early this morning General McClernand’s corps was put in motion. General Hovey’s division was on the main road from Jackson to Vicksburg, but the balance of the corps was a few miles to [...]
May 26, 1863, The Charleston Mercury A scouting part from one of our commands near Bluffton, visited Bull Island last week. They report that every house on the island has been burnt; even the fencing has been torn down, made into heaps and consumed. The property was owned by Col. E.M. SEABROOK and a small [...]
May 26, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) Communicated. Mr. Editor: Heretofore, during the war, the wives and daughters of our poor soldiers from this city have been enabled to obtain, through their needles, a support, in working for the government on clothing, tents, &c. Of [...]
May 26, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) The ladies of Burke county have completed their beautiful and patriotic arrangements at Millen, and are now dispensing their hospitality daily to large numbers of traveling soldiers. We dropped in a few evenings since and found a well supplied [...]