FEBRUARY 18th.—Mr. H_____s, another of Gen. Winder’s detectives, has gone over to the enemy. He went on a privateering cruise from Wilmington; the vessel he sailed in captured a brig, and H_____s was put in command of the prize, to sail into a Confederate port. Instead of this, however, H_____s sailed away for one of [...]

February 18, 1863, The Charleston Mercury MOVEMENTS OF THE ENEMY –THE ‘FATHER OF WATERS’ IN OUR FAVOR –STRENGTH OF THE DEFENCES OF VICKSBURG –NO DANGER OF ITS CAPTURE. (Correspondence of the Mobile Advertiser.) VICKSBURG, February 8. Great activity prevailing amongst the Yankee army yesterday morning, a rigid scrutiny was instituted on the part of our [...]

February 18, 1863, The New York Herald A correspondent of one of the radical journals of this city writes from Cairo in a most lachrymose strain about the manner in which freed negroes are treated there. There are seventeen hundred of them crowded in the […..], and their quarters are in the midst of mud [...]

February 18, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Another page, full of interest, and of glory too, we trust, is soon to be added to the history of the war. The enemy is gathering vast fleets and armies upon our coast, and all the indications warrant the belief that, ere many days, they will be hurled against [...]

February 18, 1863, The New York Herald Never, since the bombardment of Fort Sumter, has there been such a general and remarkable suspension of active hostilities as that which now prevails, by land and water, around the entire circle of the rebellion. Under an armistice, authoritatively proclaimed, this suspension of battles and skirmishes, raids and [...]

February 18, 1863, The New York Herald Our news from the Army of the Potomac, though not very important, proves that active operations are going on. An expedition started for Belle Plain on Thursday last, to break up smuggling on the peninsula between the Rappahannock and Potomac rivers, and to prevent the enforcement of the [...]

February 18, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The flag of truce boat came up with Mrs. Jas. Sanchez and three children yesterday afternoon. We have been enabled to glean the following information by this arrival: Mrs. Sanchez and family were taken from St. Augustine to Hilton Head, thence to Beautiful, and not allowed to leave the [...]

February 18, 1863, The Charleston Mercury HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT S.C., GA. AND FLA., CHARLESTON, S.C., February 17, 1863. It has become my solemn duty to inform the authorities and citizens of Charleston and Savannah, that the movements of the enemy’s fleet indicates an early land and naval attack on one or both of these cities, and [...]

FEBRUARY 17th.—Gen. Lee is not sending troops to Charleston. He is sending them here for the defense of Richmond, which is now supposed to be the point of attack, by land and by water, and on both sides of the James River. Well, they have striven to capture this city from every point of the [...]

February 17, 1863, The New York Herald Our Hilton Head Correspondence. HILTON HEAD, S.C., Feb. 11, 1863. There seems to have been some misunderstanding as to whom belongs the command of the reinforcements for this department which have arrived from North Carolina during the present month. The fact that the divisions of Generals Naglee and [...]

February 17, 1863, The New York Herald The official account of the recent attack on our fleet in Charleston harbor, from Admiral DuPont, which we publish today, establishes the fact pretty clearly that the blockade of that port was never broken. The statements of the officers of the blockading vessels, which Admiral DuPont encloses, deny [...]

February 17, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MERCURY.) RICHMOND, Friday, February 13. It is rumored that Mr. BOYCE has been making a speech in secret session advocating conciliation towards the Northwest. Yesterday, the House, in its anxiety to dispose of the question of impressments, refused to go into secret session in order that [...]

FEBRUARY 16th.—Another gun-boat has got past Vicksburg. But three British steamers have run into Charleston with valuable cargoes. Gem Lee is now sending troops to Charleston, and this strengthens the report that Hooker’s army is leaving the Rappahannock. They are probably crumbling to pieces, under the influence of the peace party growing up in the [...]

February 16, 1863, The New York Herald Our Key West Correspondence. KEY WEST, Jan. 24, 1863. During the stay of the United States steamer San Jacinto at this port I was enabled to obtain many interesting particulars from her officers regarding the escape of the Alabama from Fort Royal, island of Martinique, and it is [...]

February 16, 1863, The New York Herald We learn by intelligence from Roanoke Island the important facts that the rebels are contemplating a raid upon the troops of Capt. Foster at that point, which may take place at any moment. It appears that the rebels have 125 small boats secreted in the bayous and creeks [...]

February 16, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MERCURY.) RICHMOND, Thursday, February 12. Some queer things are said to be occurring in our army at Fredericksburg, with respect to absent officers. For example, when a Brigadier leaves for home on urgent business, his command is distributed to other brigades, so that on his return [...]

February 16, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The laws of nations can not be really laws, until nations join in enforcing them. As things now are, the strong observe or break them, according to their volition or interest, and the weak are their victims. But the other day, in 1856, the great nations of Europe, in [...]

February 16, 1863, The New York Herald Our Special Correspondence. PADUCAH, Ky., Feb. 8, 1863. From some reason or other best known to themselves the professional correspondents – with a score of which the army of General Grant is now blessed – were none of them present at the late battle at Fort Donelson. They [...]

February 16, 1863, The New York Herald The Order Permitting Volunteers to Enlist in the Regular Service Rescinded – Subsistence Stores to Be Sold to Citizens in Actual Want – The Destruction of the Philips House, &c., &c. HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Feb. 15, 1863. EXTRACTS FROM GENERAL ORDERS NO. 10. The General commanding [...]

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Jackson, Tenn., February 15, 1863. It’s 11 o’clock now, so I haven’t much time to write. We’ve been having some trouble in the regiment this week. The colonel appointed Lieutenant Mattison, captain of Company “I,” vice Medley, resigned, and Lieutenant Dorrance, captain of Company K, to fill the vacancy occasioned by [...]

FEBRUARY 15th.—Already, as if quite certain that the great Northwest would speedily withdraw from the Eastern United States, our people are discussing the eventualities of such a momentous occurrence. The most vehement opposition to the admission of any of the non-slaveholding States, whose people have invaded our country and shed the blood of our people, [...]

February 15, 1863, The New York Herald The above map clearly points out the position of the blockading fleet at the time when the rebel rams made the dash upon them on the 31st of January last. It will be seen that the Mercedita was stationed off the bar of Charleston harbor in the line [...]

February 15, 1863, The New York Herald The Army of the Rappahannock is still immovable. The state of the weather and the condition of the roads, no doubt, preclude the possibility of any military movements. Yesterday General Hooker visited General Sigel, and was accompanied on his return by that officer and General Stahel. Our special [...]

February 15, 1863, The New York Herald Our Special Mississippi Correspondence. ON BOARD THE RAM QUEEN OF THE WEST, MISSISSIPPI RIVER, BELOW VICKSBURG, Feb. 5, 1863. The Union ram Queen of the West, which ran the blockade of the rebel batteries at Vicksburg on Monday morning last, and then ran further down the river, has [...]