October 8, 1862, Galveston Weekly News We hear that the scarcity of medicines some time since so much complained of, is now obviated. We learn on good authority that there is now an unusual large supply of medicines in the State, in the hands of merchants.

October 8, 1862, The Charleston Mercury Savannah is up and doing in behalf of our suffering soldiers in Virginia. A public meeting has been held, and prompt measures taken to secure at once clothing for the army. Messrs. W.H. WILTBERGER & CO., proprietors of the Pulaski House, have offered the entire stock of carpets of [...]

October 8, 1862, Galveston Weekly News . . . As well as we can learn the result of the last interview with the enemy was that four days from Saturday night, should be allowed for the removal of the women and children and of all who desired to leave, but whether the terms embraced a [...]

October 8, 1862, The New York Herald General McClellan has issued an order to the Army of the Potomac relative to the late emancipation proclamation of the President, in which he states that it is the first duty of the soldier to obey the civil authorities as represented by the Executive, who is charged with [...]

October 8, 1862, Arkansas True Democrat, Little Rock The federal paper published at Nashville, gives an account of a riot there between soldiers and negroes. At the theatre, the negroes were ejected, being kicked or thrown from the top to the bottom of the stairs. For several succeeding days, when a negro ventured on the [...]

October 8, 1862, Nashville Dispatch (Tennessee) The city was thrown into an unusual state of excitement yesterday morning, by the current rumor that a number of Confederate prisoners had been brought into town. It was generally known that a large force had left about midnight on Monday, taking the Murfreesboro pike and as it was [...]

OCTOBER 7th.—Nothing further has been heard from Corinth. A great battle is looked for in Kentucky. All is quiet in Northern Virginia. Some 2500 Confederate prisoners arrived from the North last evening. They are on parole, and will doubtless be exchanged soon, as we have taken at least 40,000 more of the enemy’s men than [...]

October 7, 1862, Savannah Republican(Georgia) As a specimen of the right spirit to animate the Southern people at the present crisis, we would mention two instances of liberality that have come to our notice, with the hope that the parties will forgive us for the liberty we take with their names: Messrs. W. H. Wiltberger [...]

October 7, 1862, The New York Herald President Lincoln’s late visit to the army of General McClellan is an incident the importance of which, we are entirely confident, will soon be made manifest in the grandest military movements and Union victories. It was neither holiday recreation nor idle curiosity that took the President on this [...]

October 7, 1862, The New York Herald HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Oct. 4, 1862. The President has to-day completed the grand review of all the troops in McClellan’sarmy. Excepting the actual appearance of the men in action, it was the most interesting, sublime and suggestive sight we have witnessed since the army was organized. [...]

October 7, 1862, The New York Herald OUR SPECIAL ARMY CORRESPONDENCE. HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. Oct. 2, 1862. ON MARYLAND AND LOUDON HEIGHTS. President Lincoln having arrived at Harper’s Ferry yesterday afternoon, and reviewed the troops on Bolivar Heights, under General Sumner, and visited the ruins of the bridges and buildings destroyed at Harper’s [...]

October 7, 1862, The New York Herald The official despatches of General Grant relative to the late battle at Corinth confirm the news which we published yesterday. They are dated from Jackson, Tenn., on Sunday, and represent that, at that time, a large portion of General Rosecrans’ forces had advanced as far as Chevalla, in [...]

October 7, 1862, Nashville Daily Union (Tennessee) We are informed that there are about seven hundred guerrillas at Lavergne, badly armed and worse dressed, whose chief business is to forage and drive off cattle. May be it would not be amiss to give these excellent gentlemen, and defenders of the South, some other employment.

October 7, 1862, The New York Herald Brigadier General Richard J. Oglesby, reported dangerously wounded, is a man of about thirty-eight years of age. He was born in Kentucky, but removed into Illinois at a very early age, and became a citizen of the latter State. He served during the Mexican war as first lieutenant [...]

October 7, 1862, Daily Times (Leavenworth, Kansas) W. F. Downs, late of Wyandot, has charge of Pomeroy’s Colonization Office in Washington. These gentlemen start for Chiriqui about the 10th inst., with a pioneer colony of negroes, about five hundred in number.

October 7, 1862, The Charleston Mercury On last Saturday afternoon a very large concourse – including many ladies – assembled on the South Bay Battery, to witness the review of the Forty Sixth Georgia Regiment, Col. COLQUITT, by Gen. BEAUREGARD. At five o’clock the General and Staff appeared upon the ground, and the review began. [...]

October 7, 1862, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) The condition of our market is getting truly deplorable. There is not a pound of salt or a bushel of corn for sale at retail, and very little meal or flour, and we are informed that all the bacon has suddenly disappeared from the market. Everything else is [...]

October 6th. Last night, I actually drew from Gibbes the outlines of Jackson’s campaign. He told me of some heroic deeds of his fellow soldiers; but of his own, not a word. I have seen his name too often in the papers, to believe that he has no deeds of his own to relate, if [...]

OCTOBER 6th, Monday.—A Jew store, in Main Street, was robbed of $8000 worth of goods on Saturday night. They were carted away. This is significant. The prejudice is very strong against the extortionists, and I apprehend there will be many scenes of violence this winter. And our own people, who ask four prices for wood [...]

October 4th, Saturday. While Anna and Miriam went out riding last evening, just as I put down my pen, I went out for a solitary walk down the road that Gibbes would have to pass; but saw nothing of the carriage. When I got back, they told me he was wounded. My fears were well [...]

OCTOBER 4th.—A splendid aurora borealis last night. Yesterday, most of the delegation in Congress from Kentucky and Tennessee petitioned the President to order Gen. Breckinridge, at Knoxville, to march to the relief of Nashville, and expel the enemy, without waiting for orders from Gen. Bragg, now in Kentucky. The President considers this an extraordinary request, [...]

Camp Peoria, October 3, 1862. I suppose this is the commencement of another series of letters from your army correspondent. You can’t imagine how kind of old-fashioned good it seems to be in camp again. You know, of course, that my lucky star still rules, and that I have been elected captain. I think I [...]

OCTOBER 3d.—Gen. Wise was countermanded in his march against Williamsburg, by Major-Gen. Gustavus W. Smith. He had 2700 men, the enemy 1500, and he would have captured and slain them all. Gen. Wise was the trusted and revered Governor of Virginia, while Smith was the Street Commissioner in New York. A strong letter from Vice-President [...]

October 2d, Thursday. With what extraordinary care we prepared for our ride yesterday! One would have thought that some great event was about to take place. But in spite of our long toilet, we stood ready equipped almost an hour before Colonel Breaux arrived. I was standing in a novel place – upon the bannisters [...]