November 5, 1863, The New York Herald The Richmond papers furnish us with two days still later news from Charleston. The firing on Sumter was continued on Saturday and Sunday, and on the latter evening was still going on, both from Forts Gregg and Wagner and the Monitors. The bombardment is described by the [...]
November 4, 1863, The New York Herald The news from Washington indicates approaching active operations in General Meade’s army. All the able bodied troops under the command of General Martindale, the Military Governor of the capital, are to be relieved from duty and sent to the field. Their place will be supplied by the Invalid [...]
November 3, 1863, The New York Herald Sumter has been undergoing a terrible bombardment from the Union batteries. The latest news we have from Charleston is taken from the Richmond Whig of the 31st ult. — three days later than we have had before. It states that the bombardment of Fort Sumter on the [...]
November 2, 1863, The New York Herald Affairs in the Army of the Potomac do not present many new features. Beyond some guerilla movements in the rear of General Meade’s army, and some manÅ“uvering for favorable positions for an anticipated coming fight on the part of both armies, there is nothing of any importance [...]
November 1, 1863, The New York Herald There are no new movements in the Army of the Potomac. The weather is intensely cold, and the troops are preparing to habituate themselves to the comforts of winter quarters. No operations in the vicinity of Chattanooga are reported. From Charleston we hear nothing today [...]
April 8, 1863, Galveston Weekly News Galveston, March 30, 1863. The Relief Committee have distributed nearly $2500 worth of brown domestics, prints &c., among the families of soldiers and widows. For these goods no charge was made, but if any of the recipients felt disposed to make a voluntary payment they were at liberty [...]
August 2, 1862, San Antonio Herald It is astonishing how cheap dry goods and provisions are getting in this city. Flour is only 20 dollars per sack; corn meal only 2 1/2 dollars per bushel whilst sugar, molasses, salt and all other edibles are in proportion. Calico is only from 75 Cents to one [...]
July 14, 1863, The New York Herald DESCRIPTION OF THE BATTLE FIELD IN PROSPECT. HARRISBURG, Pa., July 11, 1863. All eyes are now strained towards Hagerstown and Williamsport. With breathless eagerness and anxiety does every one here strain his ears for the first echoes which shall bring the sounds of victory final and crowning from [...]
July 5, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) The Chicora Importing and Exporting Company of Charleston have recently brought on their steamers from Nassau, about twenty cases of Scriptures for the Bible Societies of the Confederate States, of South Carolina and of Virginia.–the freight on which amounted to about $10,000. This sum the Company has generously [...]
July 4th, Daily Citizen (Vicksburg, Mississippi) Two days bring about great changes. The banner of the Union floats over Vicksburg. Gen. Grant has “caught the rabbit;” He has dined in Vicksburg, and he did bring his dinner with him. The “Citizen” lives to see it. For the last time it appears on “Wall-paper.” No [...]
July 3, 1863, The New York Herald NEAR VICKSBURG, June 24, 1863. We have reports of an important nature from within Vicksburg. Deserters who came over to our lines yesterday say that a mutiny has broken out among the soldiers in the city, and that they demand its capitulation to the Union forces. The rebel [...]
July 3, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (From the Port Royal South, June 6.) On Monday evening last, five Companies of the Black regiment of Carolina negros, and a portion of Battery C, 3d R.I. Artillery, Captain Brayton, under the command of Col. Montgomery, started on an expedition, which had for its main object the recruiting [...]
July 3, 1863, The New York Herald The village of Gettysburg, Pa., was the scene of a desperate conflict on Wednesday and yesterday, the result of which is not yet fully ascertained; but there seems no reason to doubt that it is favorable to the Union arms. The forces engaged on Wednesday were the First [...]
July 3, 1863, The New York Herald From the details of the battle of Gettysburg, which we submit to our readers this morning, they will perceive that the Union forces engaged did their duty handsomely; that the general results are satisfactory and highly encouraging; that, in a word, the day closed with General Meade as [...]
July 3, 1863, The New York Herald CARLISLE, Pa., July 2 — 5 P.M. An engagement, as unlooked for and unexpected to the rebels as to us, took place here last evening, and continued during the greater part of the night. It seems that Fitzhugh Lee, after having cut the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and [...]
July 3, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The work which is now progressing in our harbor, for the defence of Charleston, is sadly impeded from the want of carpenters. Several of these artizans can find steady employment in a pleasant locality in the harbor, besides they will have the gratification of knowing that their labor has [...]
July 3, 1863, The New York Herald CAVALRY OF THE SUSQUEHANNA, June 30, 1863. THE CAVALRY WINNING FAME. Gen. Kilpatrick, having recently been promoted from a colonelcy, has more recently been placed in command of Stahel’s division of cavalry, comprising Ingalls’, under Brigadier General Farnsworth, and Brigadier General Custer, both of whom have served on [...]
July 3, 1863, Menphis Daily Appeal (Atlanta, Ga) What an immense amount of heroism among this class passes unnoticed, or is taken as a matter of course, not only in this most righteous war we are waging, but in those of all past time. For the soldier, he has his comrades about him, shoulder [...]
July 3, 1863, The New York Herald DESPATCH OF MR. J.H. VOSBURG. GETTYSBURG, July 1, 1863. The First corps of General Reynolds had been engaged with the enemy probably about two hours when the Eleventh arrived on the ground, hurrying up to meet the noise of battle towards us. So far the First corps had [...]
July 3, 1863, The New York Herald Mr. John J. Fitzpatrick’s Letter. NEAR VICKSBURG, June 22, 1863. Without touching upon forbidden topics there is little to write concerning our operations for the reduction of the great rebel stronghold on the Mississippi. The siege is progressing with that deliberate energy which characterizes such a work, and, [...]
July 3, 1863, Richmond Enquirer General Le’s army has occupied, without resistance, the flourishing town of York, the centre and capital of a great county which is the garden of Pennsylvania; situated on the railroad on which Baltimore depends for its supplies, and within fifty miles of that city, almost due North. The intelligence of [...]
July 3, 1863, The New York Herald DESPATCH OF MR. G.W. HOSMER. BIVOUAC ON THE FIELD, WEST OF GETTYSBURG, July 1 — 10 P.M. General Buford’s cavalry had previously driven the rebels to the west of the town, beyond the seminary, and between nine and ten o’clock A.M. the rebels gave his pickets a pretty [...]
July 3, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Through private letters and persons arriving from Martinsburg and Winchester, we have interesting, though not late news, from General LEE’S army. On last Wednesday the whole of our forces had crossed into Maryland, not at Leesburg, as previously reported, but at Williamsport and other fords in that neighborhood. At [...]
July 3, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The success of a small military force, aided by citizens, in driving back an enemy numbering several thousand, from Knoxville, affords, says the Savannah Republican, an encouraging example of what the people can do for the protection of their homes when both their hearts and hands are enlisted in [...]
July 3, 1863, The New York Herald DESPATCH OF MR. F.G. CHAPMAN. BALTIMORE, July 2, 1863. About half-past nine o’clock yesterday morning, as the First army corps passed through Gettysburg, on its way northward, its advance encountered the enemy’s skirmishers, posted in by streets and out of the way places. These were quickly dislodged by [...]