July 4th, Daily Citizen (Vicksburg, Mississippi) Two days bring about great changes. The banner of the Union floats over Vicksburg. Gen. Grant has “caught the rabbit;” He has dined in Vicksburg, and he did bring his dinner with him. The “Citizen” lives to see it. For the last time it appears on “Wall-paper.” No [...]
July 3, 1863, The New York Herald NEAR VICKSBURG, June 24, 1863. We have reports of an important nature from within Vicksburg. Deserters who came over to our lines yesterday say that a mutiny has broken out among the soldiers in the city, and that they demand its capitulation to the Union forces. The rebel [...]
July 3, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (From the Port Royal South, June 6.) On Monday evening last, five Companies of the Black regiment of Carolina negros, and a portion of Battery C, 3d R.I. Artillery, Captain Brayton, under the command of Col. Montgomery, started on an expedition, which had for its main object the recruiting [...]
July 3, 1863, The New York Herald The village of Gettysburg, Pa., was the scene of a desperate conflict on Wednesday and yesterday, the result of which is not yet fully ascertained; but there seems no reason to doubt that it is favorable to the Union arms. The forces engaged on Wednesday were the First [...]
July 3, 1863, The New York Herald From the details of the battle of Gettysburg, which we submit to our readers this morning, they will perceive that the Union forces engaged did their duty handsomely; that the general results are satisfactory and highly encouraging; that, in a word, the day closed with General Meade as [...]
July 3, 1863, The New York Herald CARLISLE, Pa., July 2 — 5 P.M. An engagement, as unlooked for and unexpected to the rebels as to us, took place here last evening, and continued during the greater part of the night. It seems that Fitzhugh Lee, after having cut the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and [...]
July 3, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The work which is now progressing in our harbor, for the defence of Charleston, is sadly impeded from the want of carpenters. Several of these artizans can find steady employment in a pleasant locality in the harbor, besides they will have the gratification of knowing that their labor has [...]
July 3, 1863, The New York Herald CAVALRY OF THE SUSQUEHANNA, June 30, 1863. THE CAVALRY WINNING FAME. Gen. Kilpatrick, having recently been promoted from a colonelcy, has more recently been placed in command of Stahel’s division of cavalry, comprising Ingalls’, under Brigadier General Farnsworth, and Brigadier General Custer, both of whom have served on [...]
July 3, 1863, Menphis Daily Appeal (Atlanta, Ga) What an immense amount of heroism among this class passes unnoticed, or is taken as a matter of course, not only in this most righteous war we are waging, but in those of all past time. For the soldier, he has his comrades about him, shoulder [...]
July 3, 1863, The New York Herald DESPATCH OF MR. J.H. VOSBURG. GETTYSBURG, July 1, 1863. The First corps of General Reynolds had been engaged with the enemy probably about two hours when the Eleventh arrived on the ground, hurrying up to meet the noise of battle towards us. So far the First corps had [...]
July 3, 1863, The New York Herald Mr. John J. Fitzpatrick’s Letter. NEAR VICKSBURG, June 22, 1863. Without touching upon forbidden topics there is little to write concerning our operations for the reduction of the great rebel stronghold on the Mississippi. The siege is progressing with that deliberate energy which characterizes such a work, and, [...]
July 3, 1863, Richmond Enquirer General Le’s army has occupied, without resistance, the flourishing town of York, the centre and capital of a great county which is the garden of Pennsylvania; situated on the railroad on which Baltimore depends for its supplies, and within fifty miles of that city, almost due North. The intelligence of [...]
July 3, 1863, The New York Herald DESPATCH OF MR. G.W. HOSMER. BIVOUAC ON THE FIELD, WEST OF GETTYSBURG, July 1 — 10 P.M. General Buford’s cavalry had previously driven the rebels to the west of the town, beyond the seminary, and between nine and ten o’clock A.M. the rebels gave his pickets a pretty [...]
July 3, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Through private letters and persons arriving from Martinsburg and Winchester, we have interesting, though not late news, from General LEE’S army. On last Wednesday the whole of our forces had crossed into Maryland, not at Leesburg, as previously reported, but at Williamsport and other fords in that neighborhood. At [...]
July 3, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The success of a small military force, aided by citizens, in driving back an enemy numbering several thousand, from Knoxville, affords, says the Savannah Republican, an encouraging example of what the people can do for the protection of their homes when both their hearts and hands are enlisted in [...]
July 3, 1863, The New York Herald DESPATCH OF MR. F.G. CHAPMAN. BALTIMORE, July 2, 1863. About half-past nine o’clock yesterday morning, as the First army corps passed through Gettysburg, on its way northward, its advance encountered the enemy’s skirmishers, posted in by streets and out of the way places. These were quickly dislodged by [...]
July 2, 1863, The New York Herald HEADQUARTERS, FIFTH ARMY CORPS, June 28, 1863. THE PROMOTION OF GEN. MEADE — HIS SUCCESSOR. The appointment of Gen. Meade to the command of the army places General Sykes in command of the Fifth corps. At eight A. M. General Meade, with his personal staff, left corps headquarters [...]
July 2, 1863, The New York Herald COLUMBIA, Pa., July 1, 1863. THE REBEL MOVEMENTS. There are a large number of persons here this morning anxious to cross the river, in view of the fact that the enemy has fallen back, but the military authorities are not disposed to grant passes for this purpose at [...]
July 2, 1863, The New York Herald THE SEVENTY-FIRST IN PENNSYLVANIA. OUR HARRISBURG CORRESPONDENCE. HARRISBURG, June 30, 1863. You may have heard the word ‘refugee,’ but I am sure you know but little of its real meaning. Picture to yourself, if you can, a long line of men, women, cows, sheep, chairs and babies, covered [...]
July 2, 1863, Semi-Weekly News (San Antonio, Texas) On Monday morning, about a quarter past 8 o’clock, the work house of the Powder Mill blew up, instantly killing a German, named Ernst Guenther, and a Mexican, named Ignacio Salinas, who were at work in it, at the time. Mr. Frederick, the superintendent of the [...]
July 2, 1863, Daily Citizen (Vicksburg, Mississippi) We learned of an instance wherein a “knight of the quill” and a “disciple of the black art,” with malice in their hearts and vengeance in their eyes, ruthlessly put a period to the existence of a venerable feline that has for time, not within the recollection [...]
July 2, 1863, Daily Citizen (Vicksburg, Mississippi) Jerre Askew, one of our most esteemed merchant-citizens, was wounded at the works in the rear of our city a few days since, and breathed his last on Monday. Mr. Askew was a young man of strict integrity, great industry and an honor to his family and [...]
July 2, 1863, Daily Citizen (Vicksburg, Mississippi) We are indebted to Major Gillespie for a steak of Confederate beef alias meat. We have tried it, and can assure our friends that if it is rendered necessary, they need have no scruples at eating the meat. It is sweet, savory and tender, and so long [...]
July 2, 1863, Daily Citizen (Vicksburg, Mississippi) That the great Ulysses–the Yankee Generalisimo, surnamed Grant–has expressed his intention of dining in Vicksburg on Saturday next, and celebrating the 4th of July by a grand dinner and so forth. When asked if he would invite Gen. Jo. Johnston to join us said, “No! for fear [...]
July 2, 1863, Daily Citizen (Vicksburg, Mississippi) We have heretofore refrained from alluding to a matter which has been a source of extreme annoyance and loss our citizens. We refer to the lax discipline of some of our company officers in allowing their men to prowl around, day and night, and purloin fruit, vegetables, [...]