April 21, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) A letter from Raleigh, N. C., contains the following paragraph. It needs no explanation: Some of our soldiers who have wives and children at home, have married again among the Virginia girls. The sweet, lovely damsels of the Valley and Fredericksburg little think, as they take these gay [...]
April 21, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) From the Augusta Constitutionalist of 11th. It is an old saying that “one might as well be dead as to be out of the fashion,” and so a small portion of Richmond county women must have thought yesterday, as they followed the fashion of female mobocracy, which was [...]
April 21, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) The Lynchburg, Va., Republican, says: A fine fat sheep raised by Wm. Hix, Esq., on his farm in Amherst, was sold to one of the butchers in the city, on Saturday, to be killed for mutton, at the handsome price of $130. A year ago and the same [...]
April 21, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) Whiskey sells in Little Rock at two dollars and fifty cents a drink, and the purchaser is not allowed to pour it out, or gauge his own, so says the True Democrat.
April 21, 1863, Natchez Daily Courier Hospital Stores, for the Jackson (Miss.) Hospital, where we are informed from the best authority in the world, that our brave soldiers are perishing daily for articles of nourishment. You that have these articles of luxury at home, cannot find a better opportunity to appropriate them. We will gladly [...]
April 21, 1863, The New York Herald Our Fortress Monroe Correspondence. FORTRESS MONROE, April 19, 1863. For upwards of one week a large rebel force has beleaguered Suffolk, with a view of reducing this stronghold, and if possible get possession of the stores and ammunition on hand there; but thus far the enemy has had [...]
April 20, 1863, Charleston Mercury To the Editor of the Mercury: As the prospect of cultivating the Garden Poppy on an extensive scale is very encouraging, and having received a number of letters asking information relative to the planting, management and preparation of Opium, I send you the following directions, which I have extracted from [...]
April 20, 1863, The Charleston Mercury VICKSBURG, April 17. – Some eight of the enemy’s boats came down at 11 o’clock last night. A heavy fire was opened upon them by our batteries, which was briskly replied to by some of the boats. One boat was fired by our batteries and burned to the water’s [...]
April 20, 1863, The New York Herald There is nothing new to report from General Hooker’s army. Everything appears to be quiet there. From Vicksburg, Port Hudson or Charleston we are equally devoid of intelligence, which would imply that no movements of any consequence are progressing at these points. Governor Johnson, of Tennessee, has been [...]
April 19, 1863, <emMobile Register And Advertiser Shelbyville, Tenn., April 11, 1863. . . . I started out by saying that all is quiet here as yet. I should have stated quiet, according to the meaning of the word in this region. That is to say, that whilst our infantry camps continue to be scenes [...]
April 19, 1863, Mobile Register And Advertiser We learn that a magnificent laurel wreath, bound with palmetto, and having an inscription fastened by ribbons of Confederate colors, was sent last week anonymously to the garrison of Fort Sumter. The writing was as follows: “For Colonel Alfred Rhett and his gallant command, Fort Sumter, April 17, [...]
April 19, 1863, Mobile Register And Advertiser (For the Advertiser and Register.) The surpassing patriotism, and unfaltering faith in right, of the women of America during the revolution of 1776, has given some of their purest and noblest themes to song and story for the last three quarters of a century. Romancers and troubadours, poets [...]
April 19, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi) No one who raised peanuts last year will deny that they return more profit for less labor than any other crop that can be produced. Let there be plenty of them next year. Almost every person is fond of them, and their sale is a sure thing. We [...]
April 18, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) Col. Foster’s Report under the $1,500,000 appropriations for clothing the Georgia troops, shows up to the 25th […..] March last he had issued on requisitions from Confederate Quartermasters, 4,648 hats, 4,556 coats, 5,288 pair pants, 4,858 pair drawers, 5,449 shirts, 6371 socks, 5,744 pairs shoes. He had then on [...]
April 18, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The schedules of our local railroads, and their various connections, which went into effect towards the close of February, have been working with admirable satisfaction since, both to the several companies and the travelling community. Our railroads had been overtaxed by the immensely increased passenger and freight transportation incident [...]
April 18, 1863, The New York Herald The latest news concerning the state of affairs around Suffolk, Va., is to the 16th inst. the attempts of the rebel Gen. Longstreet to cross the Nansemond river with the aid of pontoons were defeated by the fire of our artillery. One of our gunboats – the Mount [...]
April 18, 1863, The Charleston Mercury JACKSON, April 17. – Eight Yankee gunboats passed Vicksburg last night. One was burned and two disabled; but five made a successful passage past our batteries. It is rumored that a canal from Milliken’s bend will reach the Mississippi, near New Carthage. It is believed that the enemy is [...]
April 17, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We have had the pleasure of examining several Yankee flags, obtained from the sunken Keokuk. Judging by the articles left on board, the Yankees must either have lost their wits, or the boat must have gone down unexpectedly soon. Two of these buntings are United States ensigns of the [...]
April 17, 1863, The Charleston Mercury TO THE CITIZENS OF CHARLESTON AND THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAROLINA GENERALLY, AND TO THE FARMERS AND PLANTERS ESPECIALLY, FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE SEABOARD. The Free Market of Charleston, one of the noblest and most useful charities extant, after more than a twelve month of successful operation, is [...]
April 17, 1863, Southern Confederacy (Atlanta, Georgia) “C-L-O-S-E UP,” shouted a cavalry officer friend of ours the other day to his straggling followers. Little white headed girl on the road side, lifting her petticoats above her knees. “Captain is this high enough?”
April 17, 1863, The New York Herald Now that the news of the recent attack upon this rebel stronghold has been digested, the questions which naturally suggest themselves are:– First, what light has the affair thrown upon the utility of the new engines of warfare which mechanical science has recently brought forth? Second, have any [...]
April 17, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Reports reached the city yesterday afternoon, through parties from the French steamer Catinet, to the effect that the results of the recent battle of Charleston were far more disastrous to the iron fleet than any account yet published would indicate. Two of the Monitors, it is said, were completely [...]
April 17, 1863, American Citizen (Canton, Mississippi) Owing to the non-arrival of a supply of paper, for which we sent in good time, we are compelled to appear before our readers to-day in this circumscribed form. We hope it will be but a short time that our paper is thus curtailed of its fair proportions. [...]
April 17, 1863, Charleston Mercury The Staunton Spectator describes the process of making shoe pegs at the factory in that town. A maple tree is felled in the forest one day–hauled to town–delivered at the peg manufactory–in less time than a stammering man can say “Jack Robinson,” it is manufactured into shoe pegs, and in [...]
April 17, 1863, Memphis Daily Appeal (Jackson, Mississippi) We clip the following paragraph from the local column of a New Orleans paper sent to us a few days since by a friend: Miss P–––, a young lady who sympathizes with the rebels, was yesterday forenoon walking through the street waving a secession flag which had [...]