May 6, 1863, Galveston Weekly News             It is becoming a matter of grave consideration says the Augusta Chronicle, how our railroads shall be kept up.  The building of locomotives does not appear to be as difficult as the making of rails–nor does the procurement of other rolling stock.  To an inexperienced mind either the [...]

May 6, 1863, The Charleston Mercury THE VICTORY ON THE RAPPAHANNOCK. RICHMOND, May 5. No official despatches were received last night, or this morning from General LEE’S headquarters, but a private telegram represents our victory to have been complete. General (Stonewall) JACKSON’S left arm was skilfully amputated below the shoulder, by Dr. McGUYER, of Winchester. [...]

May 6, 1863, Memphis Daily Appeal (Jackson, Mississippi)             The Montgomery Mail says:             After diligent inquiry we are able to present the following list of paper mills now in operation within the limits of the Southern Confederacy:             Alabama 1–At Spring Hill in Mobile county.             Georgia 3–At Columbus, Marietta and Athens.             South [...]

May 6, 1863, Galveston Weekly News Camp near Franklin, Murey [sic] Co., Tenn.    } March 3, 1863       }             Dear News:–Some time have now elapsed since I have written to you; the inclination was good, but such has been the hurry and bustle attending our march from Oakland, Miss., to this place, that I have [...]

May 6, 1863, The New York Herald THE GENERAL ENGAGEMENT. THE LATEST REPORTS FROM THE BATTLE FIELD. NEAR THE BATTLE FIELD, MONDAY NIGHT, May 4, 1863. Heavy firing in the direction of Chancellorsville began at an early hour today, and has continued ever since. There has been a great battle in that immediate vicinity. Large [...]

May 5, 1863, Memphis Daily Appeal (Jackson, Mississippi)         We have upon our table a pair of soldier’s thick cotton socks woven by machinery by Mr. Hacket, of this city, which are superior to any we have ever seen, either of domestic or foreign manufacture.  We understand that the machine is capable of weaving [...]

May 5, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)             A correspondent of the Richmond Sentinel says a young lady in Winchester, Va., went to Milroy to get a permit to buy forage for her father’s cow, when the general asked:             “Are you loyal?”             “Yes,” she replied.             He began to write the permit.             “To [...]

May 5, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia)             We have conversed with a gentleman just from McMinnville.  He represents the outrages of the enemy in that quarter as surpassing any yet perpetrated in Middle Tennessee.  His account is substantially as follows:             The enemy appeared on the Northwest side of the town at noon on [...]

May 4, 1863, Semi-Weekly News (San Antonio, Texas)             A draft has been presented to us by Messrs. Wilson & Richardson, of a newly invented submarine boat, designed for the destruction of the enemy’s blockaders at our ports!  Of course no description can now be given of this invention in print, but it will be [...]

May 2, 1863, Natchez Daily Courier             There can be nothing more puzzling than the analysis of one’s feeling on the battle-field.  You cannot describe them satisfactorily to yourself or others.  To march steadily up to the mouth of a hundred cannon while they pour out fire and smoke, and shot and shell in a [...]

May 2, 1863, (Marshall) Texas Republican County Court, Call Session, April 28.             At a call session of the County Court, for administrative Police, began and held at the court house in the city of Marshall, in and for Harrison county, commencing on the 28th day of April, A. D., 1863; present and presiding Hon. [...]

May 2, 1863, Standard (Clarksville, Texas) Fort Arbuckle } April 6, 1863. } Ed. Standard: I believe my last was written to you a day or two before our Col. was to have a conference with the chiefs of the Seminoles, Commanches, Caddos, Anadakos &c. Well the meeting came on according to appointment. The Col, [...]

May 1, 1863, Southern Banner (Athens, Georgia)     Circumstances beyond our control compel us to issue a half sheet this week.–By leaving out all but legal advertisements, and using small type, we are enabled to give nearly as much reading matter as usual.

June 1, 1863, The New York Herald Progress of the Negro Enlistments. Correspondence of Mr. Samuel R. Glen. NEWBERN, N.C., May 26, 1863. Since my last, per the Emilie, nothing of an important character has occurred. As was anticipated, the rebels retired from before the works of the late Colonel Jones, of the Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania, [...]

May 1, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas)             Some ungallant scamp, in the Atlanta Intelligencer, gives his views as follows in regard to women, or rather the style of women he does and don’t prefer:             Thin, spare made women, who look as though they lived on steel chips and saw filings, whose salient points [...]

May 1, 1863, Southern Confederacy (Atlanta, Georgia) She is modest, she is bashful,             Free and easy, but not bold– Like an apple, ripe and mellow,             Not too young, and not too old. Half inviting, half repulsing,             Now advancing, and now shy, There is mischief in her dimple,             There is danger in [...]

May 1, 1863, Charleston Mercury             A young lady of Louisiana, whose father’s plantation had been brought within the enemy’s lines, in their operations against Vicksburg, was frequently constrained by the necessities of her situation to hold conversation with the Federal officers.  On one of these occasions a Yankee official enquired how she managed to [...]

May 1, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi)             The Fort Brown Flag of March 20th gives a detailed account of the capture and release of the renegade Judge Davis.  A party of Texas Rangers crossed the Rio Grande, surrounded the house in which Davis and Montgomery were lodged in company with a number of renegades, [...]

April 30, 1863, The New York Herald The Advance Movement of the Army of the Potomac. WASHINGTON, April 29, 1863. It was generally believed on Monday, and in some quarters positively asserted, that the Army of the Potomac had commenced moving, and a Washington paper of the next day openly proclaimed it as a fact. [...]

April 30, 1863, The Charleston Mercury LATEST FROM BRAGG’S ARMY. CHATTANOOGA, April 27. – Our army is in line of battle at Wartrace. General JOHNSTON has taken the field. The enemy’s advanced pickets are within two miles of Wartrace. The skirmishing on Saturday failed to move the enemy’s advance. RODDY’S cavalry has advanced from Tuscumbia. [...]

April 30, 1863, The New York Herald The only news from General Hooker’s army, notwithstanding the reports of an advance movement, is the details of the splendid review of General Sickles’ corps by Mr. Seward, the Prussian and Swedish ministers and a number of other distinguished personages on Monday. The raid of the rebels into [...]

April 30, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)             The Augusta Manufacturing Company, through their President, Wm. E. Jackson, Esq., have generously allowed ten bales of sheetings and shirtings of their manufacture to be taken to Lake City, Fla., to be sold to the families of sick and disabled soldiers, and families of soldiers in the service, [...]

April 30, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)             In spite of all the efforts of Confederate journals North and South to conceal the fact, or deprive it of importance, no doubt remains that very serious bread riots have taken place in Richmond and other southern towns.  In these riots the women have been the leaders; and [...]

April 30, 1863, The Charleston Mercury FROM VICKSBURG – THE YANKEE GUNBOATS RUNNING THE GAUNTLET – ILLUMINATION OF THE RIVER – EXCITING SCENES – BURNING OF A YANKEE TRANSPORT, ETC. From the Vicksburg Whig of April 17th, we extract the following graphic account of the recent passage of a portion of the Yankee fleet by [...]