June 23, 1863, The New York Herald The Chambersburg Telegrams. CHAMBERSBURG, Pa., June 22, 1863. I undertook to reach Greencastle today, but could not do so as the rebels are still there. This afternoon a detachment of the First New York cavalry had a skirmish with the rebels two miles this side of Greencastle. We [...]
June 23, 1863, The New York Herald Our Port Royal Correspondence. PORT ROYAL, S.C., June 17, 1863. The great rebel bugbear, which had for so many months previous to the advent of the Monitor fleet into our waters thrown the military and naval communities into a state of alarm and anxiety, is at last in [...]
June 23, 1863, The New York Herald Our Hilton Head Correspondence. HILTON HEAD, S.C., June 17, 1863. The transport steamer Saxon, Captain Lavender, goes North today for repairs, rendered necessary by damages received some months since while crossing the bar at Stono, against the remonstrances of the captain. She will carry a mail. During the [...]
June 23, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) The Milwaukee correspondent of the Chicago Tribune (Republican) says: Another disgraceful scene occurred in our city this afternoon, similar to that of a few days since. An enrolling officer, while engaged in his duties in one of the wards, was attacked by a large number of [...]
June 23, 1863, The Charleston Mercury THE NEWS FROM THE WEST. JACKSON, MISS. June 20. – A soldier who escaped from Louisville, Ky., on the 5th instant, reports that Majors J. H. THOMPSON and F. M. COWAN had been taken from the jail at that place and hung, under BURNSIDE’S order forbidding recruiting in that [...]
June 23, 1863, The New York Herald HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, June 22, 1863. Heavy cannonading commenced early yesterday morning in the direction of Aldie, and continued, with intermissions, during the day. Towards night the sound became more distant and indistinct. It is known that General Pleasanton attacked the enemy near Aldie, [...]
June 23, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) During the recent Yankee raid into Florence they burnt the three Cotton Factories of Martin, Weakley & Co., which worked up 4,000 bales per year; the Woolen Factories of Darby, Benham & Co., and of James Martin & Son–5 factories. In Florence they burnt the Masonic [...]
June 23, 1863, The New York Herald The loss of Winchester by General Milroy is a matter that demands the immediate attention of the government. It is worse than the surrender of Harper’s Ferry and Maryland Heights by Miles and Ford last September, and General Milroy ought to be placed immediately under arrest and tried [...]
June 23, 1863, The New York Herald The Harrisburg Telegrams. HARRISBURG, June 23, 1863. There is no doubt that the enemy is fortifying Hagerstown. They hold the country between Hagerstown and Williamsport with at least a corps d, probably General Ewell. Millerstown, eight miles from Gettysburg, has been occupied to-day by a force of rebel [...]
June 23, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Events have not yet declared the object of General LEE in advancing into Pennsylvania. At first we supposed that it was to carry into Pennsylvania the kind of war the Yankees have carried into the Confederate States – to lay waste this State as they have laid waste the [...]
June 23, 1863, The New York Herald The news from the Army of the Potomac bespeaks movements of great importance in operation or soon to be enacted in Virginia. The cavalry fight of Sunday may be but the prelude to a grand battle. Orders have been issued by General Hooker that […..] shall be said [...]
June 22, 1863, Semi-Weekly News (San Antonio, Texas) 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 dollars; additional allowances are, however, made under peculiar [...]
June 22, 1863, Semi-Weekly News (San Antonio, Texas) The Macon Telegraph of the 2d, contains the following: A factory at Seven Island, in Butts county, had loaded a wagon with seven bales of manufactured goods, and dispatched it by their customary driver, a trusty negro, to Forsyth, for transportation upon the Macon and Western [...]
June 22, 1863, The New York Herald For the first time is laid before the public this morning in the HERALD an accurate narrative of the battle of Winchester, concerning which there had been so many conflicting accounts, most of them of an unfavorable nature, but some giving the Union General extraordinary credit for his [...]
June 22, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The Richmond papers bring us little news in addition to that already given with reference to the decisive victory of the Confederate forces at Winchester on Sunday last. The only intelligence they contain is obtained from parties who have left the Valley since the surrender of Winchester by the [...]
June 22, 1863, The New York Herald Our news today from the different scenes of action where the contending armies are employed is exceedingly full and interesting. Our correspondent at Monocacy Station states that the rebels occupied Frederick City last evening. It is certain, at least, that a force of them passed through it. They [...]
June 22, 1863, The Charleston Mercury A correspondent of the Columbus Times, writing from one of our camps on the Yazoo River, June 8th, gives an interesting statement of the condition and prospects of the Mississippi Campaign. He says: ‘Important movements are going on here now, which it would be imprudent to state. It is [...]
June 22, 1863, The Charleston Mercury STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE, COLUMBIA, S.C., June 17, 1863. GENERAL ORDERS No. 21. II. THE FOLLOWING PERSONS ARE EXEMPTED by Act of the General Assembly of this State from [….] militia service,’ and, therefore, from draft under General Orders No. 20, viz: The Lieutenant [...]
June 22, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MERCURY.) RICHMOND, Tuesday, JUne 16. LEE’S favorite movement, en echelon – that by which he uncovered the fords of the Chickahominy and swept McCLELLAN back to Harrison’s Bar, by which he advanced upon Manassas last year, and lately upon HOOKER at Chancellorsville and the Wilderness – [...]
June 22, 1863, Menphis Daily Appeal (Atlanta, Ga) A correspondent of the New York Times, writing from Grant’s camp, states that a Federal captain who was taken prisoner during the siege, and who was kept in Vicksburg several days, reports the scenes in the city as fearful. He says: The women and children [...]
June 22, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The negros in the Yankee service are enumerated as follows: General THOMAS’ recruits, 11,000; under General BANKS, 3000; in Kansas, 1000; in South Carolina, 3000; in North Carolina, 3000; under General ROSECRANS, 5000; under General SCHOFIELD, 2000; Massachusetts regiments, 1200; in the District of Columbia, 800; total, 30,000. There [...]
June 22, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas) The following letter shows what sort of stuff some of our boys are made of. Good for the little patriot. His example is worthy of imitation by children of larger growth: Iron Stone House, Two Miles Above Sutherland } Springs, Wilson County, Texas, } June 9th, [...]
Well dressed woman is shown praying in a furnished cave space. A crucifix is on the wall, the cave opening looks out on to the town. Published Baltimore 1863
June 20, 1863, The Charleston Mercury JACKSON, MISS., June 18. – For the first time in four days, heavy firing was heard at Vicksburg this morning. The latest accounts represent GRANT’S army to be busy fortifying and cutting down trees beyond the Big Black to impede the movements of JOHNSTON. Great distress prevails amongst our [...]
June 20, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Since the repulse of the fleet of iron-clad gunboats on the 7th of April, our people seem to have settled down into a condition of complacent inertness concerning the public defences in this locality. Now, confidence is undoubtedly a good thing, and its moral power is an admirable auxiliary, [...]