Frank Leslie’s The Soldier in Our Civil War, Vol. I.; The Stanley Bradley Publishing Company, Incorporated.

Charleston Mercury May 6, 1861 Prepare a stick four inches long, perfectly round, and a little smaller than the ball; cut small slices of paper, an inch and a half long, and wide enough to go one and a half times around the stick; prepare a mucilage of water and gumarabic; roll the paper on [...]

MAY 6th. –To-day a Yankee was caught in the street questioning some negroes as to which side they would fight on, slavery or freedom. He was merely rebuked and ordered out of the country. Another instance of Southern magnanimity! It will only embolden the insidious enemy.

May 6, 1861 Arkansas secedes from the Union Tennessee votes to put the question of secession before the people in a popular referendum. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 Virginia admitted as a State of the Confederate States of America. Arkansas State Convention passed an ordinance of secession (69 v. 1). The [...]

Cairo, May 5, 1861, Sunday, 11 a.m. The bells are just ringing for church. I intended going, but it is such hard work getting out of camp that I concluded to postpone it. Anyway, we have service in camp this p.m. This is an awful lazy life we lead here. Lying down on our hay [...]

MAY 5th. –President Tyler has placed in my hands a memorial to President Davis, signed by himself and many of the members of the Convention, asking appropriate civil employment for me in the new government. I shall be content to obtain the necessary position to make a full and authentic Diary of the transactions of [...]

May 5, 1861 A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 Gen. Butler, with a Union force, took possession of the Relay House, near Baltimore. The 20 days of grace allowed by the President’s proclamation expired. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, [...]

Sugar Planter (West Baton Rouge, LA) May 4, 1861 With the Delta Rifles of this parish, I leave for New Orleans, early next week, and, from thence, wherever ordered. The Sugar Planter office will, therefore, be closed until my return. I hope that those who have so liberally bestowed their patronage upon me, heretofore, will [...]

Savannah Republican (Georgia) August 7, 1862, On Saturday the ladies who are to devote their services to the sick and wounded from the siege of Fort Pickens will take their departure by the Mobile boat. Mrs. Nicholson, whose residence is 210 Lafayette (late Hevis) streets, has a letter from Governor Moore to the commanding General, [...]

Memphis Daily Appeal Memphis, Ten May 4, 1861   To the Editor of the New York Daily News: I am an Irishman. I have been asked why I did not volunteer and march to put down the rebellion in the South. May I give three of my reasons through your columns? They are I. I [...]

Sugar Planter (West Baton Rouge, LA) May 4, 1861 This fine body of volunteers left Baton Rouge on Monday last under command of Capt. W. F. Tunnard, for the wars. We never witnessed a greater turn out than was seen on the levee while the company awaited the arrival of the steamer Cotten, to embark. [...]

Standard Clarksville, Tx May 4, 1861, It will be seen by the news from Indianola, that the U. S. troops encamped at Green Lake, took possession of that town on the 22d April, as we presume without opposition, and by surprise. Before this, these intruders have been captured or laid in a heap. No more [...]

Austin State Gazette Texas May 4, 1861 Capt. H. Harrison and J. H. Earle, Esq., of Waco, were in our city the past week. They report the Indians as quiet at present. We learn from Capt. Harrison that the men in Northern Texas who have been opposing the action of Texas in favor of the [...]

Weekly Arkansas Gazette Little Rock May 4, 1861 The patriotic ladies of Little Rock have converted the Theatre Hall into a manufactory of clothes for our citizen soldiery. We dropped in on Thursday evening and saw them engaged in their patriotic work. They had made two hundred round jackets and over seventy-five pairs of pants [...]

Tennessee Baptist, May 4, 1861,  We have just returned from Winchester. On our way there we met with Prof. McCall, and some students of Union University returning home in the South, and learned from them the sorrowful news, that the Union University had been disbanded, and would not resume its studies before next September. While [...]

Daily Constitutionalist Augusta, Georgia, May 2, 1861 Some lady boarders at the Globe Hotel, in testimony of their appreciation of the exertions of Mr. Mullarkey in behalf of the volunteers, last evening presented to him a beautiful Confederate flag. Of the speeches made on the occasion, we were unable to obtain a correct report, but [...]

Daily Times (Leavenworth, KS) May 4, 1861 A very pleasant juvenile party came off yesterday at Mr. Heath’s, on the occasion of little Lizzie Heath’s birthday. Quite a number of her young associates were present to extend to her their congratulations and well wishes, and to engage in the juvenile sports of the occasion. The [...]

Daily Constitutionalist Augusta, Georgia, May 2, 1861 There seems to be some misapprehension with the press generally in the Confederate States in relation to the price of printing paper under the operation of the new tariff. Since the tariff went into effect, paper has advanced about fifteen per cent. This per cent is not only [...]

MAY 4th. –Met Win. H. B. Custis, Esq., to-day in the square, and had a long conversation with him. He has made up his mind to sign the ordinance. He thinks secession might have been averted with honor, if our politicians at Washington had not been ambitious to figure as leaders in a new revolution. [...]

Memphis Daily Appeal Memphis, Ten May 4, 1861 This fine company, under command of Captain Edmondson1, depart for Randolph this afternoon. A flag will be presented to them at eleven o’clock this morning, in court square, by Miss E. E. Chidsey. So popular are the Grays that several other flags, we understand, will be presented [...]

Memphis Daily Appeal Memphis, Ten May 4, 1861 This noble corps, principally consisting of connections of some of the most respected and influential families in this city and neighborhood, is ordered on active service and leaves us to-night. The members are all hereby summoned by their respected captain, Dr. Martin, to meet at their armory [...]

May 4, 1861 A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 The Governors of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, etc., met at Cleveland, Ohio, to devise plans for the defense of the Western States. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863

The Ranchero (Corpus Christi, Texas) May 3, 1861 In the State Gazette, we notice that the Walker Mounted Rifles, of this city, have been reported and received by the Adjutant General of the State. The company is armed with Mississippi rifles, received from the State during the Cortina raid. The members are all animated with [...]

Daily Times (Leavenworth, KS) May 3, 1861 The Kearney companies, on their way to Ft. Leavenworth, passed through Omaha. Rumors having been current at the latter place that Col. Miles, the commanding officer,—being a Southern man by birth—was a secessionist, the “Nebraskian” says there is no foundation for such rumors. That paper reports the following [...]