May 7, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (From the Richmond Examiner of Monday.) On Saturday morning the belief became general in the city that Hooker had succeeded in throwing the main body of his army across the upper waters of the Rappahannock and had established himself on a line running from Chancellorsville, on the Orange plank [...]
May 7, 1863, The New York Herald The intelligence from General Hooker’s army brings us to the sanguinary conflict in Virginia up to Tuesday morning, at which time affairs looked more favorable for our forces than at any previous time since the movement commenced. On Monday the rebels in large force pressed hotly on General [...]
May 7, 1863, The New York Herald Our Special Reports from the Battle Field. OUR DESPATCHES. THE CORRESPONDENCE OF T.M. COOK. HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, NEAR UNITED STATES FORD, MONDAY EVENING, May 4, 1863. I write you in the midst of a lull in operations in this vicinity – perhaps the lull that precedes [...]
May 7, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Our readers read yesterday a synopsis of the debate in the Senate on the bill which passed the House of Representatives, repealing the Naturalization Laws, in view of the influx of Yankees after the war. This bill is similar to that introduced by Mr. THOMAS COBB, of Georgia, into [...]
May 7, 1863, Mobile Register And Advertiser The factory at Bankston has suspended operations, and the place is being fortified. Col. Wesson has despatched a messenger asking for troops to defend and protect the factory.–[Greensboro (Miss.) Motive, 25th.
May 7, 1863, The New York Herald Our Special Reports from the Battle Field. OPERATIONS ON SATURDAY. CHANGE OF POSITION. During the night of Friday the position of our forces was very materially changed. The Second corps was thrown down the Blanks Ford road, holding the extreme left of our line, and, with a portion [...]
May 7, 1863, The Charleston Mercury FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN VIRGINIA–THE LATEST NEWS. RICHMOND, May 5. – The following despatch was received this evening: GUINEA STATION, NEAR FREDERICKSBURG, Tuesday, May 5. To his Excellency President Davis: At the close of the battle of Chancellorsville, on Sunday, the enemy was reported advancing from Fredericksburg [...]
May 7, 1863, The New York Herald Our Special Reports from the Battle Field. OPERATIONS ON FRIDAY. DISPOSITION OF THE FORCES. These forces all reached their destination on Thursday, and were promptly thrown into position to repel any attack that might be made upon them. On the same evening the Second corps followed across at [...]
May 7, 1863, The New York Herald Our Special Reports from the Battle Field. CORRESPONDENCE OF MR. L.A. HENDRICK. FIFTH ARMY CORPS HEADQUARTERS, IN THE WOODS, REAR OF CHANCELLORSVILLE, Va., May 4, 1863. THE “ESPIRIT DU CORPS” OF THE TROOPS. About nine o’clock last evening I visited the Ninth Massachusetts regiment, supporting a battery in [...]
May 7, 1863, The New York Herald Long live the Union! The news of Monday’s warlike operations on the Rappahannock, received in this city yesterday, has lifted a heavy weight of anxiety from the public mind. Our heroic Army of the Potomac is still intact, and in a strong position for offensive or defensive purposes [...]
May 6, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (From the Atlanta Confederacy, May 5.) Yesterday morning before 10 o’clock, Col. Lee received a despatch from Major Rowland stating that the Yankee cavalry were at Gadsden, Ala., (on the Coosa river, at the corner of the four counties of Cherokee, DeKalb, St. Clair, and Benton, say 50 or [...]
May 6, 1863, Southern Banner (Athens, Georgia) We are compelled once more to issue only a half-sheet. The necessary supply of paper could not be obtained. We trust we shall not have to ask the indulgence of our patrons in this respect again. By omitting advertising matter, we are enabled to present nearly as [...]
May 6, 1863, Arkansas True Democrat (Little Rock) A friend in north-western Arkansas writes to us the particulars of some of the atrocious acts committed by the federals there. Two of them seized two young girls and outraged them. Afterwards, two negroes, after severe struggling committed rapes on two respectable ladies, while their white [...]
May 6, 1863, Galveston Weekly News A Rappahanock correspondent of a late Southern paper writes from camp: There are but few tents, but the army is beginning to regard tents as a nuisance. Much soldiering has made them very sharp, and given them a full knowledge of the law of self-preservation, and they [...]
May 6, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The guns of this famous iron clad now line on South Commercial wharf. They consist of two long 11 inch Columbiads, and will soon be mounted for our defence – valuable acquisitions, no less than handsome trophies of the Battle of Charleston Harbor. By order of General RIPLEY, Colonel [...]
May 6, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (From the Columbus, Miss., Republic.) The past week has been an eventful one. The boldest, and we may say one of the most successful, raids of cavalry that has been known since the war, has been made (we say it with shame) through the very centre of Mississippi, and, [...]
May 6, 1863, Arkansas True Democrat (Little Rock) Curtis, the cotton card man, has been arrested again; this time in western Arkansas. A man named Cox, who was concerned in the swindle, and another, named Mitchell, were arrested with him. Cox escaped, but Curtis and Mitchell are on their way here, and may be [...]
May 6, 1863, Arkansas True Democrat (Little Rock) At Richmond, lately, a number of women, headed by a market woman, went through the streets accompanied by a number of rowdies, and went into several stores, presenting pistols and knives and helping themselves to goods. They pretended to want food, but stole calico, cloth and [...]
May 6, 1863, Southern Watchman (Athens, Georgia) The paper on which the Watchman is printed this week cost us $15.00 per ream; Paper of the same size and far superior in quality, cost us, before the war, $3.50 per ream! We could then buy corn at from 50 cents to $1.00 per bushel–wheat at [...]
May 6, 1863, The New York Herald THE GENERAL ENGAGEMENT. THE CORRESPONDENCE OF MR. L.A. HENDRICKS. CHANCELLORSVILLE, May 3, 1863. A REVIEW OF TWO DAYS OPERATIONS. Day before yesterday, about eleven o’clock, the fifth corps advanced from Chancellorsville down the old turnpike towards Fredericksburg. Six miles from the city the enemy had intrenched himself, and [...]
May 6, 1863, Arkansas True Democrat (Little Rock) Can’t help it, gentlemen. Mr. Yerkes has gone for a supply of paper. As the feds are below Vicksburg and crossing may be delayed for weeks, we are bound to reduce our sheet so as to have enough to issue a paper, however small, until he [...]
May 6, 1863, The Charleston Mercury As we see various descriptions of the new Flag adopted by Congress, it might be instructive to our readers to give the description in correct heraldic terms, which would be as follows: ‘Argent: on a canton gules, a saltire azure, fimbriated of the field; charged with thirteen etoiles of [...]
June 6, 1863, The Charleston Mercury VICTORY AT PORT HUDSON. The refugees from New Orleans, who arrived at Mobile a day or two ago, bring accounts of glorious Confederate victory at Port Hudson on the 27th ult.: The Yankee troops had made two desperate assaults, which were repulsed with immense slaughter. When ordered to make [...]
May 6, 1863, The New York Herald Our Cape Girardeau Correspondence. CAPE GIRARDEAU Mo., April 28, 1863. The gallant fight sustained by the garrison of this place two days ago has already been announced through the country by telegraph. Though the battle was not of long duration nor the losses heavy as compared with most [...]
May 6, 1863, The New York Herald Our latest intelligence from the battle field on the Rappahannock is up to Sunday afternoon at six o’clock, at which time things looked favorable for General Hooker. Three sanguinary battles had been fought up to that time; the heights of Fredericksburg, with all the lines of the enemy, [...]