May 17, 1863, The Charleston Mercury HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM THE WEST. REPORTED CAPTURE OF JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, BY THE ENEMY. THE ENEMY DRIVEN BACK. The telegraph, thus far, has brought us no tidings of the capture of Jackson, Miss., by the enemy. Vague rumors of that disaster, however, have been rife since our last issue. The [...]
May 17, 1863, The New York Herald According to information from rebel sources General Grant is actively employed in Mississippi. The Richmond Enquirer of the 14th publishes despatches from Jackson, Miss., stating that one thousand of Grant’s cavalry entered and burned […..] railroad on the 11th inst., at twelve o’clock; that he was fortifying at [...]
May 17, 1863, Galveston Weekly News The Chattanooga Rebel expressed the wish that every gallant rifle man of the South who bares his breast to the storm of battle, could be impressed with the importance of making every shot tell, in an engagement. If five out of every ten of the bullets fired at [...]
May 17, 1863, The New York Herald Now that all is quiet again on the Rappahannock, and on the Richmond peninsula, and on the Blackwater, and in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, and in Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri, the advance of General Grant’s army through the interior of Mississippi, for the rear of Vicksburg, [...]
May 17, 1863, Galveston Weekly News A friend states that in conversation with one of the Yankee prisoners the other day, he expressed himself very bitterly against the South, stating that the Union was bound to be reconstructed, or that the South would be subjugated. Learning from our friend that he was connected with [...]
May 16, 1863, (Marshall) Texas Republican The Raleigh State Journal alluding to the high prices of newspaper, and the difficulty of procuring it at almost any price says: What remedy is there for this state of things? We see but two: either an enormous increase in the price of subscription, or a suspension [...]
May 16, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois) A Pennsylvania girl, who has been serving as a soldier in the Army of the West for ten months, says that she has discovered a great many females among the soldiers, one of whom is now a Lieutenant. She has assisted in burying three female soldiers at [...]
May 16, 1863, Natchez Daily Courier The Macon Telegraph of the 2d, contains the following: A factory at Seven Islands, in Butts county, had loaded a wagon with seven bales of manufactured goods, and dispatched it by their customary driver, a trusty old negro, to Forsyth, for transportation upon the Macon and Western Railroad.The wagon [...]
May 16, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The attention of the country is at this moment fixed upon the important campaign of GRANT against Vicksburg and Jackson, Miss. From our Western exchanges we glean some intelligence from that quarter that will be read with interest. The Jackson correspondent of the Mobile Advertiser, writing on May 7th, [...]
May 16, 1863, The Charleston Mercury PARTICULARS OF HIS DEATH – HOW HE RECEIVED HIS WOUNDS – HIS LAST HOURS – THE FUNERAL CORTEGE IN RICHMOND – HIS BURIAL PLACE. We copy from Richmond papers of Tuesday morning some interesting details of the last hours and obsequies of the illustrious Stonewall JACKSON: General Jackson, having [...]
May 16, 1863, The Charleston Mercury It is possible, says the Augusta Chronicle, that one may sometimes entertain an angel unawares, though he is far more apt to get hold of the Cloven Foot in the disguise of a gentlemen; but we believe there is not the slightest doubt as to the identity of the [...]
May 16, 1863, The New York Herald General Hooker was yesterday in Washington on official business. Immediately after his unexpected retreat he was visited at his headquarters by the President and General Halleck in order to ascertain at once the exact state of affairs. More recently, Senators Wade and Chandler, the radical chiefs of the [...]
May 16, 1863, The New York Herald Our most important news today is from the Southwest. Gen. Grant despatches to Washington that there is no truth in the reports of his either having beaten the rebels under Gen. Bowen on the 6th inst., or of his having been defeated by them on the 4th inst. [...]
May 16, 1863, Mobile Register And Advertiser Jackson, May 6, 1863. People are leaving Jackson in numbers. The trains for the interior are crowded with non-combatants, and the sidewalks blocked up with cases, barrels, old fashioned trunks and chests, which look antiquated enough to have come out of Noah’s ark. One doesn’t see the [...]
May 16, 1863, The New York Herald The Correspondence of L.A. Hendricks. FIFTH ARMY CORPS, IN CAMP, NEAR FALMOUTH, Va., May 10, 1863. THE STAY-OUT-OF-THE-FIGHT CHAPLAINS. This is Sunday; but it looks very little like it in this far away, strange, busy camp life. An occasional chaplain, it is true, busies himself an hour in [...]
Destructive Conflagration—Burning of the Crenshaw Woollen Mill and a Portion of the Tredegar Works. Richmond Dispatch, May 16, 1863 About 2 o’clock yesterday morning a fire broke out in the Crenshaw Woollen Mill, of this city, resulting in one of the most destructive and disastrous conflagrations which the city has ever been called upon to [...]
May 15, 1863, The New York Herald No recent movements are reported from Gen. Hooker’s army on the Rappahannock. All sort of rumors were flying around yesterday concerning General McClellan and his future prospects, each one about as vague as the other. It was said that he had resigned his commission; that the President refused [...]
May 15, 1863, The New York Herald REPORT OF BRIGADIER GENERAL STEINWEHR. HEADQUARTERS, SECOND DIVISION, ELEVENTH CORPS, STEVENS’ FARM, Va., May 8, 1863. To Lieutenant Colonel Meurenburg, Assistant Adjutant General, Eleventh Corps:– COLONEL – I have the honor to forward the following report of the part taken by my division in the action on the [...]
May 15, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The effort of the enemy in Mississippi seems to be the capture of Jackson, and to take possession of the railroad communication with Vicksburg. Jackson has been strengthened by works recently. PEMBERTON seems on the lookout. Governor PETTUS and the people are alive. We are glad to perceive, in [...]
May 15, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The Atlanta Confederacy contains an interesting account of Gen. FORREST’S chase and capture of the Yankees above Rome: On the 24th day of April he received orders at Spring Hill to move his brigade to Decatur. Arriving there, on the north side of the river, opposite Decatur, he learned [...]
May 15, 1863, The Charleston Mercury FROM RICHMOND. RICHMOND, May 14. We have news from Fredericksburg today. Passengers report that large volumes of smoke were seen this morning in the direction of the Yankee camps. The aggregate number of our wounded brought here since the late battles was 7100, of whom 3000 have since returned [...]
May 15, 1863, The New York Herald The Army of the Potomac is re-established in its old quarters on this side of the Rappahannock, and the opposing rebel army has returned, in force, to the Heights of Fredericksburg, on the other side. Such are the latest advices from the field. The situation of the two [...]
May 15, 1863, American Citizen (Canton, Mississippi) We regret to learn that the office of the Vicksburg Whig with its entire contents, was destroyed by fire on Saturday afternoon last. In the present scarcity of printing material this is indeed a heavy loss. We hope our friend Shannon will be able to refurnish himself [...]
May 15, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) From the New Orleans Era, April 24 There was an exciting time in the Varieties theatre last night. The house was crowded, and many ladies were present, as it was a benefit occasion. The play of Richelieu had progressed to the conclusion of the first act. The curtain [...]
May 14, 1863, The Charleston Mercury BATTLE IN MISSISSIPPI. JACKSON, Miss., May 13. The enemy yesterday advanced a column of ten thousand men upon Raymond, Miss., where GREGG had 4100 infantry and a few cavalry, but not artillery, to oppose them. Skirmishing began at nine o’clock, a.m. The enemy was continually reinforced until one o’clock, [...]