July 1, 1863, The New York Herald COLUMBIA, Pa., via LANCASTER, June 30, 1863. I have reliable information that the enemy is falling back along the entire line. The city of York was evacuated last night or early this morning. General Early is reported to have carried off a vast amount of money and stores. [...]
July 1, 1863, Austin State Gazette The San Antonio News of the 22nd, publishes the following items: There have been one hundred and eighty applications filed in our County Court, for relief, under the act of the last Legislature, granting assistance to soldiers’ families. The wife is allowed five dollars per month and [...]
July 1, 1863, The New York Herald BALTIMORE, Md., June 29, 1863. ANXIETY — JUBILANCE AND WILD RUMORS. There exists a good deal of anxiety in this city as to the result of the pending army movements, and on the part of that numerous class of citizens with secession proclivities a suppressed but noticeable jubilance [...]
July 1, 1863, Austin State Gazette The San Antonio News of the 22nd, publishes the following items: There have been one hundred and eighty applications filed in our County Court, for relief, under the act of the last Legislature, granting assistance to soldiers’ families. The wife is allowed five dollars per month and children two [...]
July 1, 1863, Dallas Herald A gentleman of a Virginia regiment, writing to his mother, gives the following account of the adventure he had in one of the recent battles. We copy from the Examiner: I must tell you of a prisoner that I captured. I spied the villain in the road and [...]
July 1, 1863, The Charleston Mercury FROM VICKSBURG AND THE WEST. JACKSON, June 29. — Advices from Vicksburg report no change in the condition of affairs there. On the night of the 21st, the enemy sprung a mine to blow up the angle of one of our works. It was a complete failure however, and [...]
July 1, 1863, Dallas Herald Among the registered enemies of the United States government who have been recently sent across the lines from New Orleans, there is now in this city a lady whose adventures place her in the ranks of the Molly Pitchers of the present revolution. At the breaking out of [...]
June 30, 1863, Richmond Enquirer The appearance of portions Gen. Dix’s command at the White House and other points on the Peninsula has been, in our opinion, a fortunate circumstance. It has recalled the thoughts of our people from the avocations of trade and money-making to the real business of every man during the continuance [...]
June 30, 1863, The New York Herald The enemy have not advanced on Harrisburg up to the latest accounts. Skirmishing at various points on the south side of the river was going on yesterday, at Oyster Point and Maysville especially. All our forces were within the defences at sunset yesterday. The rebels had torn up [...]
June 30, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (From the Richmond Dispatch of Saturday.) The reports of the progress of the Yankee raid from the White House yesterday came into the city fast and furious, and it is remarkable to note that they were in very few cases exaggerated, except with regard to the numbers of the [...]
June 30, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) Among the heroic defenders of Vicksburg none merit more honorable mention than those of the gentler sex who dwell in that fire girdled city. We are told that most of them have excavated caves in the hill sides where they repose with their children safe from the [...]
June 30, 1863, The New York Herald OUR LANCASTER CORRESPONDENCE. LANCASTER, Pa., June 29, 1863. ALL BUSINESS IS SUSPENDED here today; but the organization of the citizens into companies progresses very slowly. They do not seem desirous of doing anything for the defence of the city worthy of mention, now that the moment of action [...]
June 30, 1863, The New York Herald HARRISBURG, Pa., June 27, 1863. HARRISBURG SPECULATIONS. The speculations regarding the designs of the rebels are as various as ever. That they are pushing a heavy column towards the Susquehanna is certain. But now arises the question, what is the rebel general’s greatest motive for so doing? The [...]
June 30, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) An exchanged Massachusetts officer, who was taken prisoner on the Rappahannock, says of our soldiers: Doubtless a great many reasons are given for our most disgraceful and disastrous defeat at Chancellorsville. There is only one real reason, and that the simplest possible. Our army didn’t fight [...]
June 30, 1863, The Charleston Mercury In preparing for the attack upon Charleston, which we have reason to suppose will be renewed when the fleet of iron-clad gunboats is trebled in number, it becomes us, as an intelligent and patriotic people, to use every exertion and means of security. Should the contemplated attack succeed and [...]
June 30, 1863, The New York Herald Our White House Correspondence. WHITE HOUSE, Va., June 27, 1863. OUR ARRIVAL AT WHITE HOUSE – OUR ESCORT. On the morning of the 25th our forces came up the Pamunkey river and landed at this point. The weather was hazy, and dull in the extreme appeared everything by [...]
June 30, 1863, The New York Herald OUR COLUMBIA CORRESPONDENCE. COLUMBIA, June 29, 1863. EXCITEMENT IN COLUMBIA – PANIC. When the news of the rebel advance upon York reached here it threw the place into an indescribable flutter; but as the fact became more and more certain the excitement of the citizens of Columbia and [...]
June 30, 1863, The Charleston Mercury There is a subscription going on among the wealthy citizens of Richmond, to buy a house for Gen. Lee. Not less than one hundred thousand dollars is to be collected, and with this fund the building is to be completely furnished in the handsomest manner. Such a tribute to [...]
June 30, 1863, The New York Herald AFFAIRS IN FRONT OF HARRISBURG. FORT WASHINGTON, WEST BANK OF THE SUSQUEHANNA, June 29, – Evening. As the sun goes down in the west it leaves within this fort and within and around Harrisburg an anxious, wondering, guessing, partially fearful and somewhat excited population. The enemy holds a [...]
June 30, 1863, Richmond Enquirer Whatever chances of an early peace may lay hid in the future, certain it is the war was never yet so active and desperate and widespreading as at this very moment. The month of June is not passing idly by, but both parties improve each shining hour. From Arkansas to [...]
June 30, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) Forrest’s forces on Friday last went in pursuit of a woman to whom suspicion had been attached. She had reached the Yankee pickets in front of Franklin when they came in sight, but on they dashed, driving in the Yankees and capturing their “booty.” She proved to [...]
June 29, 1863, The Charleston Mercury General JOHNSTON arrived in Mississippi early in May, to assume command of that Division and direct operations. Near two months have passed, and no movement has yet been made by him to cripple GRANT or raise the siege of Vicksburg. Whether this apparent inactively arises from confidence in the [...]
June 29, 1863, The Charleston Mercury LATEST FROM THE WEST. JACKSON, June 26. – Advices from Vicksburg of the 23d, have been received. There was no assault upon the works last Saturday, but every gun from GRANT’S works and fleet were brought to bear on the devoted garrison. The fire was kept up from 2 [...]
June 29, 1863, The New York Herald The progress of the rebels in their advance upon Harrisburg and their raid into the interior of Pennsylvania has been somewhat slow. The news of this morning and a glance at our map, published elsewhere, will, however, satisfy any person that they contemplate striking a blow in that [...]
June 29, 1863, The New York Herald IMPORTANT MILITARY CHANGE. THE NEW COMMANDER. MAJOR GENERAL GEORGE G. MEAD, THE NEW COMMANDER OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. Major General George G. Meade, the new commander of the Army of the Potomac, was born in Spain, about the year 1815, of American parents. His father was [...]