June 20, 1863, (Marshall) Texas Republican Mrs. Mary Hyde arrived at the Alton prison from Nashville, having been sentenced by Gen. Rosecrans to imprisonment during the war, in the Illinois penitentiary. The offence with which she is charged is “secession proclivities.”
June 20, 1863, The New York Herald Great activity still prevails in Pennsylvania both among the rebels and our own forces. The rebels were, up to yesterday evening, at or near Greencastle, having retired from Chambersburg hastily and in alarm. The Eighth and Seventy-first New York Militia went to Chambersburg, to march from thence to [...]
June 20, 1863, The New York Herald DETAILS OF THE REBEL MOVEMENTS. Our Shippensburg Correspondence. SHIPPENSBURG, Pa., June 17 – A.M. Eleven miles from this place is Chambersburg, and for a considerable distance in advance of the latter place and towards this locality are rebel pickets, videttes and foraging and scouting parties. Hence we are [...]
June 20, 1863, The New York Herald DETAILS OF THE REBEL MOVEMENTS. Our Greencastle Correspondence. GREENCASTLE, Pa., ELEVEN MILES FROM HAGERSTOWN, June 17, 1863. At one o’clock today the rebel column commenced to pass through this place rather leisurely. One of the commanding officers gave notice that the town would be burned in less than [...]
June 20, 1863, [Little Rock] Weekly Arkansas Gazette The least patriotic, and the most dangerous, sign of the times, is exhibited in the mania which possesses a portion of our people for trafficking with the enemy, which, more than any thing else, nay, more than all other causes combined, panders to the malign spirits [...]
June 20, 1863, The Charleston Mercury GLORIOUS NEWS FROM THE BORDER! GEN. LEE’S ARMY IN PENNSYLVANIA. SHELBYVILLE, TENN., June 18. – Nashville papers of the 7th have been received here. The news they contain is highly important. President LINCOLN has issued a Proclamation calling for 100,000 militia, to serve for six months. The following despatches [...]
June 20, 1863, The New York Herald DETAILS OF THE REBEL MOVEMENTS. Our Harrisburg Correspondence. HARRISBURG, Pa., June 19, 1863. APPEARANCE OF THE INTERIOR. We just returned from a hurried visit to the interior, and am glad to inform you that I found the citizens residing in the counties bordering on the line of the [...]
June 20, 1863, The New York Herald The bold and rapid movement of the rebel army of Virginia into the State of Pennsylvania calls for prompt and decisive action on the part of the Governors of the Northern States. This is the time to put all our available forces into the field. The rebels have [...]
June 20, 1863, The New York Herald From the numerous despatches which we publish this morning in reference to the movements of the rebel forces in Maryland, Pennsylvania, the Shenandoah valley and in the country between the eastern flank of the Blue Ridge and the old battle ground of Manassas, it would appear, first, that, [...]
June 20, 1863, (Marshall) Texas Republican Public Meeting.–A public meeting was held at Winnsboro’ in Wood county, on the 30th ult., for the purpose of collecting Bacon and Soap for the army upon the call of Capt. G. G. Gregg, A. C. S. Patriotic resolutions were adopted, setting forth the determination of the citizens [...]
June 19, 1863, The New York Herald Mr. T. M. Cook’s Letter. ON THE MARCH, June 17, 1863. SCOUTS. Scouts from the mountain passes of the Blue Ridge bring in but little interesting news. In fact; you are probably better posted in regard to the rebel movements from the front than you can be from [...]
June 19, 1863, Menphis Daily Appeal (Atlanta, Ga) A letter from a correspondent to the Richmond Examiner, dated Richmond, June 7, gives the following narrative of the inhumanity of the Yankees toward the exiles from Western Virginia: I received a letter this morning from a refugee, giving an account of the banishment of [...]
June 19, 1863, The New York Herald It appears that the detachment from General Lee’s forces which for several days was in occupation of Chambersburg has fallen back to a safer position; that Harrisburg is secure, and that the general drift of the advanced fragments of the rebel army has been turned westward, as if [...]
June 19, 1863, American Citizen (Canton, Mississippi) One object we had in view in our recent trip to Alabama and Georgia, was to procure a sufficient supply of printing paper to enable us to enlarge The Citizen to a respectable size, and place the continuance of its publication beyond all contingencies, except those incident [...]
June 19, 1863, The New York Herald Mr. T. H. Whipple’s Letter. CAIRO, June 15, 1863. THE BATTLE AT MILLIKEN’S BEND, some particulars of which the telegraph has ere this taken to you, turns out to have been a more sanguinary affair than was at first supposed. It occurred on Saturday and Sunday, the 6th [...]
June 19, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We publish this morning a letter from an intelligent planter to a friend, descriptive of what passed under his own eye, during the late raid on the Combahee River. The matter, as presented, is one demanding the serious and careful attention of all citizens of the State, no less [...]
June 19, 1863, The Charleston Mercury THE MOVEMENTS IN THE WEST. JACKSON, June 13, p.m. – It is stated positively that JACKSON’S cavalry has retaken the Big Black Bridge. We have no particulars yet. A gentleman just from Vicksburg says that the garrison there is in the best spirits, with plenty to eat and an [...]
June 19, 1863, The New York Herald Despatch of Mr. Thomas M. Cook. ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, June 18, 1863. The situation and intention of the rebels begins more and more to be developed, and we gain a clearer insight into their plans and purposes. There is a very large room for doubt whether any [...]
June 19, 1863, Menphis Daily Appeal (Atlanta, Ga) “I want a copy of that book about Gen. Lee’s poor miserable soldiers faintin,” said an old lady in West & Johnston’s bookstore, the other day. The clerk was dumbfounded. One of the proprietors was sent for, made the old lady repeat her request, turned pale, [...]
June 19, 1863, The New York Herald Mr. Simon Cameron, the predecessor of Edwin M. Stanton in the War Department, took occasion the other day at Harrisburg to denounce the present Secretary for his gross mismanagement in general, and his shameful neglect in particular to protect Pennsylvania from invasion. There can be no doubt that [...]
June 19, 1863, The New York Herald Information has reached Washington that a skirmish occurred on Wednesday near Aldie between the Union cavalry and the rebels. Eighty-five rebels were captured by our forces, among them eight officers. Several killed and wounded. This skirmish may be the preliminary contest of a more general and bloodier struggle, [...]
June 19, 1863, Menphis Daily Appeal (Atlanta, Ga) Mrs. Mattie Patterson, whose arrest on a charge of carrying on treasonable correspondence with the enemy has been mentioned, was found guilty by the military commission at Murfreesboro’, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary, at Jeffersonville, Ind., for life. The general commutes her sentence to three [...]
June 18, 1863, The New York Herald In this moment of painful anxiety, when the nation has lost confidence in the general at the head of the Army of the Potomac, and the army itself, if it ever believed in him, has faith in him no more, and when the army and the people look [...]
June 18, 1863, The New York Herald The Harrisburg Telegrams. HARRISBURG, June 16 – Midnight. Two of our reporters have just returned from in front of the rebel pickets, who are picketed forty-seven miles from Harrisburg, at Scotland Bridge, which they burned this morning. A party of fifteen set fire to the structure. The rebels [...]
June 18, 1863, The New York Herald Major General Hunter arrived in this city yesterday, having been relieved of his command of the Department of the South. General Gillmore, the conqueror of Fort Pulaski, takes General Hunter’s place, and we are sure that no appointment could be more popular with the officers and soldiers of [...]