April 10, 1863, The New York Herald From all the information in our possession we are warranted in stating that the attack on Charleston has fairly commenced, and it may be, ere this time, that the great rebel stronghold has been reduced. Fort Sumter is again the object of attack – this time the Union [...]
April 10, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The dress parade of the Charleston Battalion on Union Wharf, at half-past five o’clock, p.m., are daily witnessed by a large number of spectators. The parade ground is not as favorably located as that of the Battery, but the number of persons immediately interested makes up the aggregate. The [...]
April 10, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We deem our City and State fortunate in the Generals now in command for our defence, whatever may have been the causes which cast their services amongst us. Our readers are fully aware of the labors and services of General BEAUREGARD preparatory to the reduction of Fort Sumter. They [...]
April 10, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Since our last issue the enemy has made no movement of importance in this vicinity. On the Stono his operations seem to progress very slowly, as if he were awaiting the issue of the final contest between the iron fleet and the batteries of our harbor. The Monitors, six [...]
April 10, 1863, Southern Banner (Athens, Georgia) The Bath Paper Mill, situated on the S. Carolina Railroad, six miles from Augusta, was destroyed by fire, about 2 o’clock, P.M. on the 2d inst. The Augusta Chronicle says, the loss of this paper mill at this time, is a great public calamity. A large amount of [...]
April 10, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois) The Chicago Tribune says, “the latest private advices from our army at Vicksburg are all of the same tenor, and all amount to this: Have patience.” The patience of the people is well nigh exhausted. “Hope long deferred maketh the heart sick.” The people have been waiting on [...]
April 10, 1863, The New York Herald Our Bayou Boeuf Correspondence. HEADQUARTERS, GEN. WEITZEL’S COMMAND, BAYOU BOEUF, La., March 30, 1863. Although the main body of this division of the Nineteenth army corps has fallen back to this point, still a strong force occupies Brashear City, seven miles in front, from which point the enemy’s [...]
April 9, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) Passports are now issued in Augusta at 25 cents each–the proceeds to be handed over to the Augusta Purveying Association for the benefit of the city poor. This is a good idea. No one will refuse to pay the amount where so much good can be accomplished by it. [...]
April 9, 1863, Clarke County Journal (Alabama) Is there no remedy for the […..] prices of the essentials of life? Yes, there is a remedy, and it is in the hands of the men who are not in the army, and if they do not remedy it, and that right speedily–well, every sensible man knows [...]
April 9, 1863, The Ranchero (Corpus Christi, Texas) First Letter from Trimmer. Agua Poquito, Tex.,} April 4, 1863. } Editor Maltby:– . . . The capture and release of one E. J. Davis and hanging of one Montgomery and his release, constituted the all-absorbing topic of conversation at Roma when I left there, a couple [...]
April 9, 1863, The New York Herald Our Pamlico Correspondence. ON BOARD STEAMER JNO. FARON, PAMLICO RIVER, TWELVE MILES BELOW WASHINGTON, N.C., WITH REBELS ON ALL SIDES OF US, April 1, 1863. I attempt to write you, though I am inclined to think that the chances of this letter ever reaching you are slim indeed. [...]
April 9, 1863, Clarke County Journal (Alabama) On yesterday (says the Atlanta Intelligencer of the 19th) a scene occurred in our streets which moved the sympathies of our soul. A number of ladies, perhaps a dozen, composed of the wives and daughters of soldier’s families, who represented themselves and their families to have been deprived [...]
April 9, 1863, Memphis Daily Appeal (Jackson, Mississippi) The Bath paper mills in South Carolina, a short distance from Augusta, Georgia, were destroyed on the 2d inst. These were the largest mills in the Confederacy, and the loss is a serious one to the proprietors, as well as to the papers of the South.
April 9, 1863, Semi-Weekly News (San Antonio, Texas) Five cents per pound will be paid for cotton or linen rags, delivered to the undersigned in Austin, or to Dr. Theo. Koester, in New Braunfels. These rags are wanted to make paper with, and as this is a new enterprise in Texas, it is hoped every [...]
April 9, 1863, The New York Herald The government is not officially informed of any events occurring at Charleston; but that an attack most decisive in its results is imminent, it would be idle to deny. The feeling among both officers and men comprising the expedition is hopeful, and argues success. It is said that [...]
April 9, 1863, Southern Confederacy (Atlanta, Georgia) The following is applicable in other sections besides New Jersey. I am a farmer, and so was my father before me. I have not followed in his footsteps in the way of managing the farm, because I have taken agricultural papers and have learned much that was not [...]
April 9, 1863, Charleston Mercury The Richmond papers have all been compelled to advance their prices. The Enquirer and Examiner have gone up to $15 for twelve months, and $8 for six months. The Whig has advanced to $12, and the Dispatch to $10. The Sentinel, a new paper, is mailed at $10 a year. [...]
April 8, 1863, The Charleston Mercury CHATTANOOGA, April 6. – MORGAN was attacked by the enemy at Liberty, on Friday, and driven back to Snow Hill, where he held his position, and the enemy retired. Our troops, under Colonel SMITH, were repulsed at Woodbury on Saturday, and fell back to within twelve miles of McMinnville, [...]
April 8, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser Gen. Liddel’s command, stationed near Wartrace, Tenn., are having a good deal of sport in catching a large number of rabbits daily. An old friend of ours says that on last Friday the boys captured about four hundred of the “molly cottontails.” They manage the thing well. Two or [...]
April 8, 1863, Arkansas True Democrat (Little Rock) Some six or eight weeks ago, handbills and circulars were sent all over the State, notifying country dealers and merchants that the subscriber thereto was prepared to furnish some 50,000 pairs of cotton cards, calicoes, and other things, on terms that would enable them to supply families [...]
April 8, 1863, The New York Herald IMPORTANT NEWS. Three Thousand Armed Women Attack the Government and Private Stores. BALTIMORE, April 7, 1863. Col. Stewart, of the Second Indiana regiment, one of the fourteen United States officers just released by the rebels, and who has just arrived here, makes the following statement: – On Thursday [...]
April 8, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser When we see a man advertising for a wife or a woman advertising for a husband, we conclude that it was either intended for a joke or that it is bona fide. If it is intended for wit, where is the wit? If there is anything peculiarly funny in [...]
April 8, 1863, The Charleston Mercury A correspondent of the Jackson Appeal, writing from Port Hudson, La., under date of March 15, gives the annexed account of the Yankee attack on that place: The long expected contest between the Yankee fleet took place before daylight this morning, the first shot being fired at ten minutes [...]
April 8, 1863, Charleston Mercury The Augusta Constitutionalist, of Saturday last, appears in a half sheet. The editor says: The destruction of the Bath Paper Mills, from which was derived our supplies of printing paper, may entail on us the necessity of suspending the issue of the Constitutionalist. At this time it seems impossible to [...]
April 8, 1863, The Charleston Mercury About two weeks since, a force of about four hundred men of the Seventh New Hampshire Volunteers, stationed at St. Augustine, Fla., were out in the woods near that place, either on a foraging expedition or making an attempt to capture the company of Capt. DICKERSON, of the Second [...]