May 25, 1863, The Charleston Mercury HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM VICKSBURG. JACKSON, MISS., May 22. – Heavy firing has been heard this morning in the direction of Vicksburg. It is reported, and believed in official circles, that the enemy assaulted the works at Vicksburg on Wednesday, but was badly repulsed. Snyder’s Bluff has been evacuated by [...]
May 25, 1863, The New York Herald By the news which we published during the last two or three days, and particularly yesterday, our readers were prepared for the glorious intelligence which we are enabled to announce this morning, that Stars and Stripes float over Vicksburg, and the victory is complete. This brilliant success of [...]
May 25, 1863, The New York Herald Two important events in the news received yesterday, and duly chronicled in an extra HERALD in the afternoon, created considerable excitement throughout the city. The first was the capture of Vicksburg by the army of General Grant; the other was the raising of the siege of Puebla by [...]
May 25, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) From the Brandon, Miss., Republican In order to ascertain the amount of damage done by the Yankees during their forty-eight hours occupation of the city of Jackson, we went over and took a careful survey of the place yesterday morning, and give below the result of our observations. [...]
May 25, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas) We have received from Col. G. R. Jefferson of Seguin, the sum of two hundred and seventy two dollars, the proceeds of a concert given by the children of Sequin, for the benefit of the sick and wounded of Sibley’s Brigade. Seguin, May 2, 1863. Editor [...]
May 24, 1863, Mobile Register And Advertiser Our exchanges frequently record romantic incidents connected with the war, but we have seen none better than the following, which we clip from the Nashville Dispatch: Dep’t of Cumberland, May 17, 1863. General: The general commanding directs me to call your attention to a flagrant outrage [...]
May 23, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We were of those who opposed the breaking up of the South Carolina College, and the encouragement given to boys abandoning education and going into the field. But the boys were encouraged and permitted to leave College and go into the army, the College exercises were discontinued, and the [...]
May 23, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) We are happy to record the arrival at this place of Mrs. Mary Samuel, her two daughters and son, who have recently been released from confinement in the bastille of the North, where they were subjected to treatment of the most brutal and outrageous character. Mrs. Samuel [...]
May 22, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The Richmond Sentinel learns that arrangements are on foot to procure at once a full size bronze statue of Gen. JACKSON, with the design to place it, when completed, on the plateau in front of the south portico of the Capitol. There are ample materials from which a perfect [...]
May 22, 1863, The New York Herald Sailing Exercises on Board the Sloop Marion. Our Naval Academy Correspondence. NEWPORT, R.I., May 20, 1863. The day dawned upon us calm and beautiful; but the clouds bespoke for us a breeze early in the day, while the atmosphere here promised us a fine day for the exercise [...]
May 22, 1863, The New York Herald In looking over the general field of the war there appears to be very little going on in the way of active operations except in the State of Mississippi. From that quarter we are momentarily expecting the news of General Grant’s occupation of Vicksburg. The latest accounts of [...]
May 22, 1863, The New York Herald The news from the Southwest is most important. It is known that General Grant’s forces abandoned Jackson on Friday and Saturday last, having other work to attend to. General Joe Johnston telegraphs to Adjutant General Cooper, from the rebel camp between Livingston and Brownsville, that General Pemberton had [...]
Warning The following article contains wording that is offensive to many in the world of today. This, unfortunately, includes the title. However, the article is provided unedited for its historical content and context. It is important to note that this article reflecting Civil War era attitiudes about blacks is from a Northern newspaper. Nigger Regiments. [...]
May 22, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas) We are informed there is a party of deserters in the Big Thicket, who are living in the woods and marauding. It is reported that they are also freebooting on the highway. It behooves the military to find out if it is so, and have these runaways [...]
May 21, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We make some interesting extracts from a sketch of the late battles on the Rappahannock, communicated to the Columbia Carolinian by a correspondent in the army: Next morning early the firing was resumed. Our infantry began to press forward in earnest, and our artillery, which had succeeded in getting [...]
May 21, 1863, The Charleston Mercury From the data furnished from the best informed sources, the Richmond Enquirer is enabled to give a fair estimate of our actual losses in the late battles of the Rappahannock. The estimate presents a total of 7,500 killed, wounded, and missing, subdivided as follows: Killed………………………1,000 Wounded………………….4,900 Prisoners…………………..1,600 Total………………………..7,500 In [...]
May 21, 1863, The Charleston Mercury From a gentleman just arrived from Jackson, the Mobile Tribune learns some points of interest not exactly in the nature of the latest news, but facts which enable the reader to form just conclusions in reference to matters in that district. That a grand effort to reduce Vicksburg would [...]
May 21, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) Miss Fanny C. James, daughter of Mr. John James, of Baltimore, has been arrested in that city and committed to the Baltimore jail to be tried by the civil authorities under the treason act of Maryland, under the charge of giving aid and comfort to the rebels, in [...]
May 21, 1863, The New York Herald From all the rumors which reach us today it would seem that the position of general Grant is not quite as secure as his recent occupation of the capital of Mississippi, after a succession of victories at Raymond, Mississippi Springs, and Jackson itself, might lead us to suppose [...]
May 21, 1863, The Ranchero (Corpus Christi, Texas) The State Military Board have purchased several thousand pairs of Cotton Cards, which have been apportioned to the counties on the basis of the scholastic census. The price is ten dollars per pair, in currency, at Austin, payable on delivery. It is required that the counties [...]
May 21, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) The following is a copy of the letter to Miss James, of Baltimore, intercepted by the Federals, and upon which she is imprisoned in the Baltimore jail: Richmond, Va., March 15, } Tuesday Noon. } My Dear Fannie:–Your letters have just been received, and the pleasure it [...]
May 21, 1863, Semi-Weekly News (San Antonio, Texas) Notice. The County commissioners of Bexar Co. during the absence of the Chief Justice, will attend at the Clerk’s Office on Friday, May 29th, and Wednesday, June 3d, 1863, and at such other times as may be necessary, to take the affidavits of soldiers wifes and [...]
May 21, 1863, Charleston Mercury We recollect the silk excitement of twenty odd years ago, which, under the stimulus of Yankeeizing speculation, was turned into the murus multicaulis mania, the unlucky consequence of which brought discredit upon the really laudable enterprise in which it originated. We had believed that the silk culture in the [...]
May 21, 1863, Nashville Dispatch There has been a pretty heavy emigration from Middle Tennessee during the past three or four months, mainly to the Western States. These people go to seek homes where they hope to be free from the annoyances inseparably connected with a state of war, like that of which Tennessee [...]
May 20, 1863, Charleston Mercury A correspondent of the Mobile Advertiser, writing from Shelbyville, says: An officer in General Bragg’s army had obtained a short leave of absence to permit him to go home and attend to personal interests demanding his presence. Before his time of absence had expired he requested a further leave [...]