May 20, 1863, The New York Herald Jackson is a city of Mississippi, of which State it is the capital. It is situated in Hinds county, and has heretofore been a very thriving place. It is located on the right or western bank of the Pearl river, at the terminus of the Vicksburg and Jackson [...]
May 20, 1863, The New York Herald The Pearl river, which runs through nearly one half of the State of Mississippi, rises in Winston county, in the northeast central part of the State, and flows in a southwesterly direction to the city of Jackson. Here it makes a slight deviation from its course, and flows [...]
May 20, 1863, The New York Herald The latest news from General Grant’s army reports that the Capitol at Jackson has been burned, but whether by the troops of General Grant, or by the rebels in retreating, or by an accident, is not stated. The official reports of General Grant’s action at Jackson and the [...]
May 20, 1863, The New York Herald The Correspondence of Mr. G.W. Hosmer. CAMP NEAR FALMOUTH, May 13, 1863. THE ORDER TO CROSS THE RAPPAHANNOCK ISSUED AND COUNTERMANDED. Distinctly and certainly – as forcibly as possible, in fact – the Army of the Potomac is not south of the Rappahannock river. How the statement that [...]
May 20, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The movements in Central Mississippi are by far the most important and critical of any now transpiring in the great theatre of the war. The accounts from that quarter, both by mail and telegraph; have for several days been of a very confused and unsatisfactory character. We know, however, [...]
May 20, 1863, The New York Herald THE FIGHT AT CARRSVILLE. The Correspondence of Mr. Edward F. Denyse. IN BIVOUAC, NEAR CARRSVILLE, Va., May 15, 1863. On Wednesday afternoon, at about two o’clock, a reconnoissance force was started from Suffolk for the interior of the rebel country by way of the South Quay road. This [...]
May 20, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) The large fire at Richmond on Friday last, and of which telegraphic announcement was made in these columns, is thus alluded to by the Richmond Dispatch: “The large fire of Friday morning, which destroyed the Crenshaw Woolen Manufacturing Mill and part of the Tredegar Iron Works, was [...]
May 20, 1863, The New York Herald Our New Orleans Correspondence. NEW ORLEANS, April 30, 1863. The great importance of General Banks’ recent victories can scarcely be appreciated by the people of the North. Let me assure you that their results will be of incalculable benefit to our country. The rebel prisoners in communicating with [...]
May 20, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas) Rev. Mr. Moeling has, since the battle of Galveston, devoted himself to getting up a painting of the principal scene in the battle–the capture of the Harriet Lane. The artist has taken the moment when the Bayou City ran into the Lane, and our boarders rushed on [...]
May 20, 1863, Galveston Weekly News The San Antonio Herald says the Government has undertaken to establish a Tannery, and cotton and wool Factory in that city on a tract of 75 acres purchased of the city and some two miles above the city. These public works are under the Superintendence of Maj. T. [...]
May 20, 1863, The Charleston Mercury IMPORTANT FROM THE WEST – LATEST NEWS FROM THE ARMIES OF GRANT AND JOHNSTON. JACKSON, MISS., May 18. The enemy sent a flag of truce this evening to convey to our lines their principal surgeon, who has been left in charge of their wounded. He states that, in the [...]
From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd MAY 19TH.–This day beholds a cordon of steel, with rivets of brave hearts, surrounding Vicksburg. The enemy left their fortifications on the first, twelfth, fourteenth, sixteenth and eighteenth of this month, and dealt their best blows to prevent the occurrence of what we have just accomplished–the surrounding of [...]
May 19, 1863, The Charleston Mercury LATEST FROM THE WEST. BRANDON, Miss., May 16, (via Montgomery May 17.) Five gentlemen rode to Jackson today and traversed the city. The enemy evacuated the place about two o’clock. Their force is supposed to be about 40,000. They have retreated towards Vicksburg. Firing has been heard in that [...]
May 19, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois) Cairo, May 18th. By arrival of the steamer Luminary we have news from Grant’s advance to the 11th and Milliken’s Bend the 14th. It is reported that Generals Logan and Osterhaus are marching towards Jackson, driving Bowen before them, while Grant is marching up the Black [...]
May 19, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (From the Examiner of Saturday.) We regret to have to announce this morning one of the most serious conflagrations that has afflicted Richmond for several years, involving not only loss of private property to the amount of half a million or more, but a short delay in the supply [...]
May 19, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) Brandon, Miss., May 16.–Five gentlemen who rode to Jackson to-day, and traversed the place while there, report that the city was evacuated by the enemy about two o’clock. They are supposed to number about 40,000, and they retreated in the direction of Vicksburg. Firing was heard by the [...]
May 19, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) Although Hooker crossed the river without baggage, the spoils of the battle field have proved unusually valuable. Already fifty thousand muskets and rifles have been picked up and secured, and are being sent to Richmond by rail. The quantity of great coats, knapsacks and rations, thrown away by [...]
May 18, 1863, The New York Herald By the arrival of the steamer George Washington, from New Orleans on the 9th instant, we have a full account of the capture of Alexandria, on the Red river, by Admiral Porter, the arrival of Admiral Farragut at New Orleans, and an intensely interesting and most valuable description [...]
May 18, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) We are gratified to learn that this distinguished gentleman has been appreciated in Georgia and assigned to the control of an important interest. He has been chosen President of the Etowah Iron Mining Company, in Bartow county, who have one among the finest works of the kind in [...]
May 18, 1863, The New York Herald Our latest news from the Southwest indicates a successful issue to General Grant’s inland movement in Mississippi for the reduction of Jackson and Vicksburg. The advanced detachments of his army, wherever they had come into contact with an opposing column of the enemy, had, after a severe contest, [...]
May 18, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas) We acknowledge from Edmundson & Culmell 185 yards mosquito netting, a donation for the hospital of Sibley’s Brigade. It was a timely gift, as the hospital of these troops is now in a region perhaps worse infested with mosquitos than any other in America.
May 18, 1863, The New York Herald Our Expeditionary Correspondence. SOUTH SIDE OF BIG BLACK RIVER, HANKERSON’S FERRY, MISS., May 3, 1863. Events have followed each other so rapidly within the last three days that I have been utterly unable to keep you informed of them as they have occurred. In a land blessed with [...]
May 18, 1863, The New York Herald The Great Cavalry Operations in the Southwest. Our Baton Rouge Correspondence. BATON ROUGE, La., May 5, 1863. I embrace the first opportunity to forward to you the particulars of one of the most important expeditions of the war. The excitement of the hour will hardly permit me to [...]
May 18, 1863, The New York Herald The cavalry expedition of Colonel Grierson through Mississippi has proved a great success. We have received a full and graphic description of the affair from Baton Rouge, by the George Washington, which arrived yesterday, and which we publish in another column. From the tone of a leading editorial [...]
May 17, 1863, Southern Confederacy (Atlanta, Georgia) In conformity with a request published some time since, a meeting of the Cotton Spinners of the State was held in Atlanta, Ga., on the 15th of May. There were present, John White, Georgia Factory; Isaac Powell, High Shoals Factory; Hugh MacLean, Aguadon Mill; Thomas Leslie, [...]