June 18, 1863, The New York Herald By the latest accounts it has been ascertained that no rebels were to be found as far as Shippensburg yesterday. They were in possession of the little town of Scotland, where they had burned the bridge. About three o’clock yesterday they retreated from Chambersburg. An official despatch from [...]
June 18, 1863, The Charleston Mercury GOOD NEWS FROM VIRGINIA! RICHMOND, June 17. – A despatch dated Rockingham, June 16th, to the agent of the Associated Press, says that EWELL attacked the enemy at Winchester on Saturday, and fought them all day Sunday. On Monday, at 4, a.m., he renewed the attack, and, after a [...]
June 18, 1863, The Charleston Mercury On Friday, the 15th November, 1861, just after the fall of Hilton Head, we put forth the following editorial, submitting it to an eminent citizen of Charleston deemed most wise and most discreet. It was a calm, practical, common sense consideration of the evident dangers in view and of [...]
June 18, 1863, The New York Herald Our Harrisburg Correspondence. HARRISBURG, June 16, 1863. GOVERNOR CURTIN AND HIS PRESENT ACTION. I called upon the Governor this morning at seven o’clock, and found him at the Executive chamber looking wearied and disappointed. He is resigned to the fate that awaits the capital of the glorious old [...]
June 18, 1863, The New York Herald The Main Body of the Enemy in the Shenandoah Valley. PHILADELPHIA, June 17, 1863. A special despatch from Washington, dated last night contains the following intelligence:– The latest advices from the army show that General Lee has pushed a very large force up the Shenandoah valley. General Ewell’s [...]
June 18, 1863, The New York Herald Correspondence of Mr. F. G. Chapman. FREDERICK, Md., June 16, 1863. After a hard ride of sixty miles I arrived here today, and found the most excited set of people that could possibly be conceived of inhabiting the town. I had been led to expect that the town [...]
June 18, 1863, Clarke County Journal (Alabama) Camp Sawyer, Caroline County, Va } May 30th, 1863. } Mr. Editor: Whilst the press teem with individual acts of heroism exhibited in the late battles of Chancellorsville, permit [...]
June 18, 1863, The New York Herald According to our latest advices from Washington, the main body of the rebel army is moving down the Shenandoah valley towards Maryland, while the army of General Hooker is gathered around the old battle field of Bull run. It is conjectured that Lee’s programme is substantially that of [...]
June 17, 1863, The New York Herald The latest official news concerning the rebel raid into Pennsylvania was received by the government last night from Governor Curtin. It states that the rebels had made no progress toward Harrisburg and Scotland, within seven miles of Shippensburg, where we had strong works, and were prepared to give [...]
June 17, 1863, Southern Watchman (Athens, Georgia) Rose leaves are extensively used in the manufacture of blue pills, and are in great demand for preparing this valuable medicine. The gardens of city and country now abound in roses, and we are sure that the [...]
June 17, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser To the Associated Press North. St. Louis, June 1.–The second installment of persons ordered to be sent to the Southern States, took their departure tonight. The delegation numbered seventeen, among whom were Phillip Coyne, James H. Kennett, W. [...]
June 17, 1863, The New York Herald By our correspondence from Murfreesboro, published yesterday, it would appear that Rosecrans is making some advances against Bragg, but that he is ordered from Washington not to provoke the rebel general too far, but just to divert him sufficiently to keep him from sending reinforcements to Johnston, in [...]
June 17, 1863, The New York Herald The sudden and rapid invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania by General Lee’s army, from Culpepper and the upper Rappahannock, after outgeneralling Hooker by turning his right flank, is to be traced directly to the removal of General McClellan from the command of the army last fall, when he [...]
June 17, 1863, The Charleston Mercury STORMING OF THE ENEMY’S WORKS AT WINCHESTER, VA. RICHMOND, June 16. A despatch from General LEE to the President, dated June 15, says: ‘God has again crowned the valor of our troops with victory. EARLY’S division stormed the enemy’s entrenchments at Winchester, capturing their artillery, etc.’ The weather is [...]
June 17, 1863, Galveston Weekly News In the coarse of one’s life, much that is obscene and offensive is heard and read, but the lowest depth of obscenity by which the English language has probably ever been defiled, h as been brought to light [...]
June 17, 1863, The New York Herald The present aggressive campaign of the rebel army of Virginia is one of the most daring and desperate enterprises in the history of modern warfare. Leaving Richmond, the rebel capital, and his base of operations, to the chances of capture, and with our powerful Army of the Potomac [...]
June 17, 1863, Galveston Weekly News Our exchanges frequently record romantic incidents connected with the war, but we have seen none better than the following, which we clip from the Nashville Dispatch: Headquarters Dep’t of Cumberland, } April 17th, 1863. [...]
June 16, 1863, The New York Herald The invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania by the rebel forces of General Lee is the all absorbing topic in the war news today. It appears that at noon on Sunday the rebel forces made their appearance in strength at Berrysville and Martinsburg. At the latter place they were [...]
June 16, 1863, The New York Herald The city was startled yesterday with the exciting news of another invasion of Maryland by some advanced detachments of the rebel army of Virginia; by the positive information, in this connection, of a rapid flank movement northward by General Lee with the main body of his army, and [...]
June 16, 1863, Standard (Clarksville, Texas) Camp Davis, Coodey’s Creek, } Cherokee Nation, May 29th, 1863} Dear Standard: My last was addressed to you from Butler’s Creek. I do not recollect how long ago.–Since then we have kept so busy, that I have not [...]
June 16, 1863, Standard (Clarksville, Texas) Runaway from Jordan’s Saline. I will give the above reward for the apprehension and delivery or to have apprehended & placed in any Jail so that I can get him. A runaway negro of the following discription viz: [...]
June 16, 1863, The New York Herald HARRISBURG, Pa., June 15, 1863. The following proclamation has just been issued by the Governor of Pennsylvania:– IN THE NAME AND BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, AND ANDREW G. CURTIN, GOVERNOR OF THE SAID COMMONWEALTH. A PROCLAMATION. The State of Pennsylvania is again threatened with [...]
June 16, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) A friend who left Florence on Tuesday evening, brings the latest news from Roddy’s command. It had returned from the pursuit of the Yankees, under the brutal Cornyn, having followed them to Hamburg, where, under the protection [...]
June 16, 1863, The New York Herald PROCLAMATION BY PRESIDENT LINCOLN. He Calls for One Hundred Thousand Militia. WASHINGTON, June 15, 1863. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, the armed insurrectionary combinations now existing in several of the States are threatening to make inroads into the States of Maryland, [...]
June 16, 1863, Austin State Gazette A Member of Bates’ Regiment, writing from camp at Niblett’s Bluff, where they were awaiting the arrival of their ammunition and baggage train, says: “On the 25th, Green’s cavalry had a skirmish with the enemy’s pickets near Franklin. [...]