May 9, 1863, The New York Herald The Secretary of War, in his despatch of yesterday to the Governor of Pennsylvania, says that although principal operations of General Hooker failed, there has been no serious disaster to the organization and efficiency of the army;”that more than one-third of General Hookerforce was engaged;” that “General Stoneman’s [...]
May 8, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas) We are informed that Col. Pyron’s regiment, which is now on the march to the field to meet the enemy, are in need of haversacks. This article is very necessary to a soldier in the field, and it being such a cheap article, we think we have [...]
May 8, 1863, Mobile Register And Advertiser The Shreveport Gazette recently published a card signed by about a hundred foreigners, who, fearing they might be drafted in the militia, adopted that course to notify the people that they were French subjects, and owned no allegiance to Louisiana. The News says that Mr. B. Courtade, [...]
May 8, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas) Waxahachie, Texas, April 30.–The Waxahachie powder mill blew up yesterday. Mr. Rown, the proprietor, and Mr. Phillips one of the hands, were both killed, and Mr. Nance was badly bruised. There were about 2000 lbs. of powder in the mill at the time.
May 8, 1863, The New York Herald The news of General Hooker’s retrograde movement across the Rappahannock without a general battle, and with the enemy en masse in his rear, created throughout this city yesterday a profound sensation of disappointment and despondency. Confident hopes of great victories were changed again to painful anxieties for the [...]
May 8, 1863, American Citizen (Canton, Mississippi) The Raleigh State Journal, alluding to the high price 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 [...]
May 8, 1863, The New York Herald WASHINGTON, May 6, 1863. THE FAILURE OF THE CAMPAIGN. Hooker’s campaign is a failure, just when it was supposed to be on the very eve of a brilliant success. It is understood that he was outgeneralled by Lee and his army outnumbered by the rebels. Still a retreat [...]
May 8, 1863, American Citizen (Canton, Mississippi) Among the returned Confederate prisoners, to whom we alluded in our paper of yesterday morning, was a Georgian, who had had his leg shot off in the battle, in which he was taken prisoner by the abolitionists. While in New York city, awaiting his recovery, he states [...]
May 8, 1863, The New York Herald THE CORRESPONDENCE OF MR. T.M. COOK. HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, NEAR UNITED STATES FORD, May 5, 1863. In my last communication I was compelled, owing to the length to which it grew on my hands, to make merely a mention of the operations of the army yesterday. [...]
May 8, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) A young woman, apparently about 17 years of age, attired in military apparel, was arrested in this city, Tuesday, and lodged in jail, until some satisfactory information in regard to her can be obtained. She says that she is a married woman, that she is from Mississippi, and [...]
May 8, 1863, The New York Herald The news of General Hooker’s retrograde movement to the north side of the Rappahannock, after sustaining a loss of ten thousand men or more during a contest of three days, created an intense excitement in the city yesterday. Our latest news report the army safe at Falmouth. The [...]
May 8, 1863, The New York Herald THE CORRESPONDENCE OF MR. S.M. CARPENTER. UNITED STATES FORD, May 6 – 8 A.M. Yesterday morning the trains were all ordered back to camp, and by dark the wagons, extra caissons, pack mules, &c., were at Falmouth. The wounded were hastily removed from the hospitals and sent to [...]
May 8, 1863, The New York Herald OUR RICHMOND, VA., DESPATCH. I am able to give you a few items of intelligence which may be of interest, in advance of a detailed history of my experiences in the confederacy. THE ADVANCE OF GENERAL STONEMAN HEARD OF. We received an alarm here on Sunday about Stoneman’s [...]
May 8, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas) We paid over $2000 a day or two since for a lot of printing ink that before the war would have cost $125.
May 8, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) The war upon women–waged only here and there two years ago–is becoming universal. The stubborn fealty, lofty patriotism, and fiery spirit of the women of the South, which ought rather to excite a noble admiration and would do so in a generous foe, only begets persecution from the [...]
May 8, 1863, Natchez Daily Courier, The following very pertinent remarks, from the Little Rock Democrat of a late date, are equally applicable to the doings of “General Starvation” and his piratical invaders further South. The Starvation Policy. “It has been known, for weeks, that the Federals in this State, as well [...]
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May 7, 1863, Mobile Register And Advertiser At Brownsville, Texas, molasses is selling at fifty cents per gallon. Shoes, of good make, eighteen dollars per dozen. Hats, at the same prices. Domestics, twenty cents per yard. Two hundred barrels of flour sold at auction at ten dollars and fifty cents per barrel.
May 7, 1863, The New York Herald Our couriers from Hooker’s army bring the details of movements on the Rappahannock down to Monday night as relates to the main army, and to Tuesday morning at two o’clock in relation to the detachment under General Sedgwick. The news from General Sedgwick’s detachment is less encouraging at [...]
May 7, 1863, The New York Herald Army of the West. General Hartsuff has received an appointment under General Burnside, and has left Washington for his new seat of military labors. He has to some extent recovered from the wounds he received at Antietam – enough to enable him to resume active duties – therefore [...]
May 7, 1863, The New York Herald Our Special Reports from the Battle Field. OPERATIONS ON SUNDAY. After the disaster to our right wing on Saturday and the manifestation the rebels made of their position and intentions, Gen. Hooker determined upon a radical change of front. Hitherto, as the reader has seen, his line faced [...]
May 7, 1863, The New York Herald Our Special Reports from the Battle Field. CORRESPONDENCE OF MR. L.W. BUCKINGHAM. May 3, 1863. I shall not attempt to chronicle the disgraceful affair of a part of the Eleventh corps (formerly Sigel), till I am able to learn full particulars and send you a diagram of the [...]
May 8, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We make up from our Richmond exchanges of Tuesday a summary of such additional intelligence of the recent movements of the campaign in Virginia as had been received up to Monday night: THE BATTLE. The scene of the battle is in Spotsylvania county, between the Wilderness and Chancellorsville. The [...]
May 7, 1863, Semi-Weekly News (San Antonio, Texas) (Communicated.) Why is it, while our attention is so often called to our hospitals in Galveston, in Arkansas and in Virginia, that nothing is said or done for our own sick and suffering soldiers here at home? Why should they be kept in “durance vile,” in [...]
May 7, 1863, Semi-Weekly News (San Antonio, Texas) The Knoxville Register learns, through a letter from a lady living near Murfreesboro‘, that the vandals are committing terrible excesses in Tennessee. They are turning women and children out of their houses without food or shelter. They had ravished four girls of good respectability in society, [...]