February 5th, Thursday night. A letter from Lavinia has come to me all the way from California. How happy it made me, though written so long ago! Only the 30th of June! Lavinia has changed, changed. There is a sad, worn-out tone in every line; it sounds old, as though she had lived years and [...]

FEBRUARY 5th.—It snowed again last night. Tuesday night the mercury was 8° below zero. A dispatch from Gen. Beauregard says sixty sail of the enemy have left Beaufort, N. C., for Charleston. A British frigate (Cadmus) has arrived at Charleston with intelligence that the Federal fleet of gun-boats will attack the city immediately; and that [...]

February 5, 1863, The New York Herald The news which we published yesterday of the successful raid of the rebel iron-clads against our blockading force at Charleston is, so far as the number and value of the federal vessels destroyed are concerned, of but very little moment. The moral effect of the reverse, however, is [...]

February 5, 1863, The New York Herald We have news to the 30th ultimo from Vicksburg. At that day General Grant, chief in command, had arrived. The work of widening and deepening – the famous cutoff was progressing; but the rebels, snuffing their danger, had planted a battery on the opposite, or Mississippi, side of [...]

February 5, 1863, The New York Herald Our Memphis Correspondence. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 27, 1863. A portion of Gen. Grant’s army has already moved off in transports for Milliken’s Bend, and the remainder is on the way to this city to be transported to the same destination. In a week or two – judging by [...]

February 5, 1863, The New York Herald There is nothing new from the Army of the Potomac. Everything is quiet in that direction. The attack by the rebels on Fort Donelson, which we reported yesterday, resulted in their entire defeat. At the commencement of the action of the enemy took four of our guns at [...]

February 5, 1863, The New York Herald Since it seems to be now resolved that we are to have a negro army to put the finishing touches on the rebellion, it is to be hoped that no time will be lost in commencing a draft for that purpose. The one hundred and fifty thousand suggested [...]

February 5, 1863, The Charleston Mercury For fifteen months, or since the MUIR business, the esequatur of Mr. ROBERT BUNCH from the United States Government has been withdrawn. HE has been the Consular Agent of her Britannic Majesty at this port, and is now permanently withdrawn by his Government. We learn that, both from the [...]

FEBRUARY 4th_–One of the enemy’s iron-clad gunboats has got past our batteries at Vicksburg. Gem Pemberton says it was struck “three times.” But it is through. The enemy’s presses reiterate the assertion that Gen. Longstreet is in Tennessee with his corps; and that the detachments from Gen. Lee’s army amount to 75,000 men. This is [...]

February 4, 1863, The New York Herald We have unexpected news and rather startling in intelligence from Charleston for the entertainment of our readers this morning. We derive the news from a late number of the Richmond Dispatch, and the substance of it is, that on Saturday morning last the improvised rebel fleet of Charleston, [...]

February 4, 1863, The Charleston Mercury It is our sad office, today, to chronicle the death of the founder of this journal  one who, for fourteen or fifteen years, was its editor and proprietor, and whose learning, talents and stainless character have adorned many positions of honor and usefulness, and wrought much good in this [...]

February 4, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We understand, from some of the officers of the captured gunboat Isaac P. Smith, that the fire of our sharpshooters during the engagement was so deadly as seriously to retard the working of their heavy guns, and that at one time they found no little difficulty inducing their crew [...]

February 4, 1863, The New York Herald Our news today is of more than usual importance. Telegrams from Charleston to the Richmond papers give accounts of a disaster to the blockading gunboats in Charleston harbor on Saturday, which is said to have resulted in the loss of two vessels sunk and four set on fire. [...]

February 4, 1863, The New York Herald Warning The following article contains wording that is offensive to many in the world of today. However, the article is provided unedited for its historical content and context. The bill for the formation of a negro army, which passed the United States House of Representatives on Monday last, [...]

FEBRUARY 3d.—It appears that Gen. Pryor’s force, 1500 strong, was attacked by the enemy, said to be 5000 in number, on the Blackwater. After some shelling and infantry firing, Gen. P. retired some eight miles, and was not pursued. Our loss was only fifty; it is said the enemy had 500 killed and wounded; but [...]

February 3, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We agree with every word ‘Historicus’ has said against the intervention of France and England to end the war between Confederate and the United States, on the principles which governed their intervention in the case of Greece and Belgium. The readers of THE MERCURY will remember that, from the [...]

February 3, 1863, The New York Herald The latest news from Suffolk represents that the enemy was last night in force between sixteen and seventeen miles from there this side of the Blackwater. Our troops had taken every precaution to attack him again should he advance farther towards Suffolk. There is now no evidence that [...]

February 3, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Yesterday forenoon passed in the city and harbor without any stirring news or incident of note. About one o’clock a telegram from Fort Sumter announced that a strange steamer, evidently an iron-clad, had just hove in sight. The number of the ordinary blockading vessels strung along the horizon was [...]

February 3, 1863, The New York Herald Our Suffolk Correspondence. ON THE BATTLE FIELD, TWELVE MILES FROM SUFFOLK, Jan. 30 – 9 P.M. If I remember aright, my last letter written from this field of battle left our forces about to execute a flank movement on the enemy’s left. After consideration General Corcoran determined not [...]

February 3, 1863, The New York Herald The bill to raise black soldiers and sailors for the United States service was modified in some important particulars before it passed the House today. The border State members had given warning that recruiting officers for that purpose would be shot by the citizens if they should attempt [...]

February 3, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We take, from the Savannah News of yesterday, the following additional details in regard to the bombardment of Fort McAlister, at Genesis Point: The fort was but slightly injured. A portion of the parapet in front of the 10 inch Columbiad was destroyed; the gunners never flinched, but fought [...]

February 3, 1863, The New York Herald (From the Boston Post, Feb. 2.) General McClellan continues to receive numerous attention from our citizens. Wherever he goes he is greeted with demonstrations of the most friendly and enthusiastic nature. His visit to Boston, which was originally intended to have had all the quietness and obscurity of [...]

FEBRUARY 2d.—After the feat at Charleston, Gen. Beauregard and Commodore Ingraham invited the consuls resident to inspect the harbor, and they pronounced the blockade raised, no United States ship being seen off the coast. Then the general and the commodore issued a proclamation to the world that the port was open. If this be recognized, [...]

February 2, 1863, The New York Herald The Navy Department received a despatch last night announcing that the Union gunboat Isaac P. Smith – one of the recent government purchases – went ashore in Stono river on Saturday, and was captured by the enemy. She was commanded by Lieutenant Connover. The Richmond Examiner of that [...]