April 8, 1863, Arkansas True Democrat (Little Rock) For the True Democrat. Mr. Editor:  Through the kindness of Dr. Headley, the head surgeon of Gen. McRae’s brigade, I had the pleasure a few days since of visiting the regimental hospitals of that brigade. For temporary encampments I regard these hospitals as models of the best [...]

April 8, 1863, The Charleston Mercury HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA AND FLORIDA, GENERAL ORDERS No. 58. CHARLESTON, S.C. April 5, 1863. I. FIELD AND COMPANY OFFICERS ARE SPECIALLY enjoined to instruct their men under all circumstances to fire with deliberation at the feet of the enemy; they will thus avoid over-shooting, and, besides, [...]

April 8, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi) The Richmond correspondent of the Knoxville Register says:  The evils incident to revolution are in this city developed in their worst aspect. Citizens of Richmond are not affected by them, but the crowds which congregate in the Capital, of both sexes, give abundant evidence of the rapid progress [...]

April 8, 1863, The Charleston Mercury At last, the long period of doubt and delay is at an end; and this goodly city, girdled with the fiery circle of its batteries, stands confronted with the most formidable Armada that the hands of man have ever put afloat. The first scene in the novel drama of [...]

April 8, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi) There is no country in the civilized world where quite the same devotion is paid to woman as in our own sunny domain. There is no land where woman, occupying in society her own appropriate place, deserves and receives a more unqualified homage, or exerts a more general [...]

April 8, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)  A correspondent of the Mobile Advertiser, writing from the camp of the Thirty-eighth Alabama Regiment, relates the following:  Some weeks ago, a young man came to camp and proposed to volunteer. He was accepted, there being nothing in his physical appearance to indicate the singular denouement which followed six [...]

April 8, 1863, The New York Herald There is nothing new from the Army of the Potomac. The snow has disappeared, but the roads are in a frightful condition. By an arrival from Hilton Head we learn that the town of Jacksonville, Florida, was burned by the Union forces under Colonel Rust, in return for [...]

April 8, 1863, Arkansas True Democrat (Little Rock) Warren, Texas, March 23d, 1863. Mr. Editor:  Having seen several pieces in your paper in regard to the war, our facilities for sustenance and defence, I take the liberty of requesting you to insert my opinion, if it is only the opinion of a native Texan girl. [...]

April 8, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser  We regret to learn that the Bath Paper Mill, situated a short distance from Augusta, Georgia, was destroyed by fire on Thursday last. This mill supplied a number of the most prominent papers of the country, and its loss at the present time is a public calamity.  

April 8, 1863, Galveston Weekly News  The Brownsville correspondent of the San Antonio Herald says Judge Davis was accompanied by a Major who was formerly a preacher in Austin, and by a Lieut. who was also a renegade from the same city, and by three subaltern officers, two of whom were from this State. One [...]

April 8, 1863, Galveston Weekly News Brownsville, Texas, March 22, 1863. Editor Galveston News:  It is reported that Col. (late Judge) Davis, after his surrender to Gov. Lopez Wednesday last, behaved himself prudently, not joining in the noisy demonstrations gotten up by the Consul and adherents among the rabble, and that he has left Matamoras [...]

April 7, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois)  Democrats, go early to the polls this morning. The abolitionists, alias the dark lantern Union Leaguers, though apparently inactive are secretly hard at work, and hence extra vigilance is needed on the part of the Democracy. Again we repeat, go early to the polls, and look sharp for [...]

April 7, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The Richmond Enquirer very properly denounces the Government of the United States as a Despotism. Well – what constitutes it a Despotism? One thing, and one thing alone – the suspension of this writ of Habeas Corpus. By the suspension of this writ, President LINCOLN can arrest and cast [...]

April 7, 1863, The Charleston Mercury HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA AND FLA., I. IN CASE OF A BOMBARDMENT OF THE CITY OF Charleston, should any Hospital become untenable, Medical Officers in charge, and those unattached to Regiments, unless otherwise specially ordered, will repair forthwith to the temporary Hospital established four miles from the [...]

April 7, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia)  We learn that fourteen bacon hams were sold in this city on yesterday, and brought the small sum of nine hundred and eighteen dollars and seventy-five cents. These hams, we learn, were raised by one of the oldest and best farmers, and were none of your little boney [...]

April 7, 1863, The Charleston Mercury FROM DIVISION No. 1. I. IN PURSUANCE OF THE REQUISITION OF THE General Commanding, the orders of his Excellency Governor Bonham, and the terms of the Acts of the General Assembly in relation to this subject, I hereby call upon Division No. 1, comprising the Judicial Districts of Pickens, [...]

April 7, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The enemy’s fleet off this harbor yesterday consisted of nine iron-clads (eight turetted Monitors and the Ironsides), besides about thirty wooden war steamers of various classes. During yesterday afternoon, it was stated with confidence that the iron-clads had all crossed the bar and anchored within. At all events, their [...]

April 7, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Several of the largest tobacco growing counties in Virginia have held public meetings and determined to cultivate no more tobacco the present year, notwithstanding the high price which the article is commanding. This is truly laudable and patriotic conduct. It is really refreshing in these times of money making [...]

April 7, 1863, The Charleston Mercury I have been instructed by the Surgeon General of the Confederate States Army to induce you to interest yourselves in the culture of the GARDEN POPPY, and thus render the Confederacy an essential service. The Garden Poppy is a valuable as well as ornamental plant, and thrives well in [...]

April 7, 1863, The New York Herald The reports of the capture of Charleston are somewhat premature. That hostile demonstrations have commenced, and that a portion of our troops were landed at John’s Island, at which point the pickets of the enemy were driven in, cannot be doubted. The despatches from Charleston to Richmond confirm [...]

April 7, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia)  A crowd of women, some of them armed with revolvers and bowie-knives, entered the store of Rosenwald & Bro., on Triangular block, this morning, and took forcible possession of several pieces of calico.–The proprietor demurred to this seizure, and rushed upon the woman who had the bowie-knife, and [...]

April 7, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia)  We regret to learn that the Bath Paper Mill, situated on the South Carolina Railroad, six miles from the city, was destroyed by fire about 2 o’clock, p.m., yesterday. The roof of the building was discovered to be on fire, when every possible exertion was made to extinguish [...]

April 6, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The long delayed hour seems at last to have arrived. The attack on our city, threatened for more than a year, is now imminent. Whatever careful preparation, unlimited resources, all the instruments and agents of modern warfare, undisguised hate and the bitterest feelings of revenge can suggest, have been [...]

April 6, 1863, The New York Herald Our Lexington Correspondence. LEXINGTON, Ky., April 2, 1863. In consequence of the recent serious raids which have been made in this quarter by the daring banditti, called rebel soldiers, General Gillmore applied to Gen. Burnside for permission to go to the […..], and the request was promptly granted. [...]