April 14, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois) Providence, La., March 22, ’63.  Dear Parents:–Having a few spare moments and the poor dim light of a candle to see my way by, I will pencil a line or so to you…  General Grant is using every means to bring about a complete victory at Vicksburg, and [...]

April 13, 1863, Memphis Daily Appeal (Jackson, Mississippi) From the Richmond Examiner.  The reader will find in the report of evidence in the police court, the true account of a so-called riot in the streets of Richmond. A handful of prostitutes, professional thieves, Irish and Yankee hags, gallows birds from all lands but our own, [...]

April 13, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)  The editor of the Lake City Columbian paid a visit to Jacksonville, and gives the following account of the destruction of that town by the Abolitionists:  Probably about one-third of the town was destroyed by the fires set by the enemy. A heavy rain and the efforts of the [...]

April 13, 1863, The Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) A terrible tornado passed over Bayou Teche, La., on the 29th ult. It swept over a tract only two hundred yards in breadth. The residence of Mr. Honore Dejean was lifted up and carried some distance, killing nearly all in it, including Mr. Dejean, Mrs. Dejean, Emile [...]

April 13, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)  On Thursday and Friday last, feeble outbreaks of females armed with pistols and bowie knives, headed by a few vagabonds, were made in Augusta, Milledgeville and Columbus, in this State, for the purpose of helping themselves to merchandize at what they considered fair prices–all of which were promptly suppressed [...]

April 13, 1863, The Charleston Mercury THE MORRIS ISLAND BATTERIES that participated in the recent engagement with the iron-clad fleet were Battery Wagner and the Cumming’s Point Battery. They were ordered not to open fire until the last of the attacking fleet had come within range, and hence it chanced that their first fire was [...]

April 13, 1863, The New York Herald UNITED STATES TRANSPORT GEORGE PEABODY, AT SEA, April 10, 1863. We arrived at Port Royal on the morning of the 9th, and found, to our great satisfaction, that the movement towards the capture of Charleston began on the afternoon of the 7th instant by the iron-clads, which went [...]

April 13, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The Confederate steamer Stonewall Jackson, Captain BLACK, formerly the British steamer Leopard, left Nassau on Wednesday last, with a cargo consisting of several pieces of field artillery, 200 bbls. saltpetre, 40,000 army shoes, and a large assortment of goods bound to this port. On Saturday night, about 11 o’clock, [...]

April 13, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Proudly this thirteenth day of April, the second anniversary of the surrender of Fort Sumter, dawns upon the city of Charleston. The boasted iron-fleet, which was in three hours to have reduced our defences and pulverised the walls of Fort Sumter, battered and discomfited by our skilled artillerists, after [...]

April 13, 1863, The New York Herald The arrival of the steamer George Peabody from New Orleans, Hilton Head and Charleston puts in possession of the details of the attack on the latter place, from which the Peabody sailed on the 9th, two days after the fight commenced. Our Monitors stood fire splendidly. The Keokuk, [...]

April 12, 1863, Mobile Register And Advertiser Grand Gulf, Miss.,. March 17th, 1863. Editors Register and Advertiser:  In a late number of your paper I find, in a communication from your correspondent “N’Importe,” an article in which special mention is made of the meritorious and self-sacrificing labors of the “Florence Nightingale of the South,” Miss [...]

April 12, 1863, Southern Confederacy (Atlanta, Georgia)  The Lynchburg Republican says, on the authority of a letter from North Carolina, that when a person applies for chewing tobacco, at some of the stores in that State, the answer is “No, but I’ve got the best chewing rosum (rosin) you ever seed.” The soldiers down there [...]

April 11, 1863, (Marshall) Texas Republican  We hope that we shall not be under the disagreeable necessity of keeping up our small sheet for many weeks. We design either sending or going abroad for paper, and if it can be procured, we shall get it.  

April 11, 1863, The New York Herald We receive by way of Richmond a brief account of the results of the first day’s operations of our iron-clads against the forts in Charleston harbor. At first view they would appear to be rather unfavorable to us. According to the rebel statement, the attack commenced on the [...]

April 11, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois) St. Louis, April 9. The Democrat’s special from Young’s Point 3d, says several transports with troops and Ellets Marine Brigade and one iron-clad started up stream this morning.There is no prospect of active operations before Vicksburg for some time.A new canal has been cut three miles above here [...]

April 11, 1863, The New York Herald The report from Charleston is that the Keokuk was disabled on Tuesday, and on the following day was sunk on the beach off Morris Island. Subjoined is a sketch of her: – […..] The Keokuk was designed by Mr. C. W. Whitney, of this city, and was built [...]

April 11, 1863, The Charleston Mercury On the 23d instant all the Confederate Treasury notes, dated prior to December 2d, 1862, will cease to be fundable in eight per cent. bonds, but will be fundable until the 1st of August in seven per cent. bonds. To facilitate the funding of these notes, the Secretary of [...]

April 11, 1863, The Charleston Mercury On Wednesday evening our watchful pickets reported a gunboat of the enemy in Coosa Rover, near Chisolm’s Island. It was first believed that the vessel was aground, but subsequent events proved that she was anchored there. During the night another gunboat also took position in the same neighborhood. Upon [...]

April 11, 1863, The Charleston Mercury At two o’clock p.m., just as the officers had seated themselves for dinner, the first advance of the iron-clad fleet was announced to the commandant of the post. Their anchorage had been within the bar of Ship Channel, off the southern end of Morris Island, some four miles from [...]

April 11, 1863, The Charleston Mercury LATEST FROM VICKSBURG. VICKSBURG, April 8. – Everything quiet here. Two more transports left this afternoon, bound up the river. A number of transports are still in sight. LATEST FROM PORT HUDSON. PORT HUDSON, April 9. – All quiet here. The enemy fleets, above and below, have disappeared. The [...]

April 11, 1863, The New York Herald Our Headquarters Correspondence. HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. April 9, 1863. The event of the season came off yesterday. The grand review, which the army has for days been looking forward to, and in which rival regiments were to vie with each other for distinction, has passed, and [...]

April 11, 1863, The New York Herald The long expected attack upon Charleston commenced on Tuesday last. In the early part of the day only four of our iron-clads were engaged – probably three fitted with submarine devils and one other. According to the rebels the firing from both parties was very heavy and during [...]

April 11, 1863, San Antonio Herald  We cannot help believe that Gen. Bee has but performed his duty, in delivering up the traitor Davis, to the demand of the Mexican authorities. Davis, it is true, is a scoundrel whom any Texan would be justified in shooting down like a dog, should he be found voluntarily [...]

April 10, 1863, The Charleston Mercury HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF SO. CA., GA. AND FLA., CHARLESTON, S. C., April 10, 1863 (General Orders No. 55) The Commanding General is gratified to have to announce to the troops the following joint resolutions unanimously adopted by the Legislature of the State of South Carolina: ‘Resolved, That the General [...]