October 8, 1862, Nashville Daily Union (Tennessee) General Anderson’s Camp at Lavergne Broken up and Routed! Rebel Loss – Thirty Killed and Eighty wounded. Three Hundred Prisoners Taken! The Enemy’s Entire Camp: Equipage, Stores, Arms and Ammunition Captured and Brought to this City. Our arms at this point have been crowned with another brilliant success [...]

October 8, 1862 , Montgomery Weekly Advertiser The people of Lynchburg, Va., have recently been thrown into a fever of excitement by the appearance of a ghost in their midst. It has very appropriately selected a deserted hospital as the scene of its nocturnal visitations.

Washington Telegraph (Arkansas), October 8, 1862 At the residence of Mr. B. McDonald, in Washington, Ark., on the 26th ult., Lieut. James F. Walker, in the 30th year of his age. He was the son of Dr. W. S. Walker, of Tyler, Texas. – a member of Col. Speight’s regiment and first lieutenant of Capt. [...]

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 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 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, 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, 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, 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 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 1, 1862, The New York Herald It is evident, from the tone which the rebel journals have recently assumed, that a desire for peace is gaining strength in the South. It is even reported, although upon very vague authority, that a commission, or something of that kind, has been appointed by the rebel Congress [...]

September 2, 1862, Daily Times (Leavenworth, Kansas) Camp Near Rienzi, Mississippi, August 22, 1862. Ed. Times:–The 7th boys are anxious to return to Kansas, and from the treatment we receive I must say that it cannot be wondered at. I have a few facts to state that will prove to you that the Kansas regiments [...]

August 31, 1862, The New York Herald This sterling officer, whose series of military operations and brilliant victories in the West have been the theme of praise and comment from press and public, is comparatively a young men, being under forty years of age, having been born in Kentucky, March 10, 1923. His parents early [...]

by Horatio Nelson Taft Friday March 28th Very pleasant today. Streets quite dry & dusty. A great movement of troops. A stream of men and Govt Wagons have been going down 14th St for a number of hours. The Divisions of Genl Keyes and Casey, 10,000 or 12,000 each, have moved for Alexandria to embark. [...]

by Horatio Nelson Taft Saturday March 22nd 1862 We have been listening all day to the booming of Cannon and beating of Drums. Troops are constantly embarking at the Arsenal and marching through and about the City. But the tents on the hills back of the City do not seem to diminish in number, but [...]