June 27, 1863, The New York Herald The enemy progresses slowly, but with large force, into Pennsylvania. Affairs at Harrisburg wore a more quiet aspect yesterday, although the country people, with droves of cattle and horses, were rushing into the city in large numbers. Preparations for defence were going on actively. General Knipe evacuated the [...]

June 27, 1863, The New York Herald Our Chambersburg Correspondence. CHAMBERSBURG, June 18, 1863. The following is a correct and truthful account of Jenkins’ raid into Chambersburg, having witnessed it personally. You will remember that Franklin county, Pa., of which Chambersburg is the shire town, is a border county of the State, about eight miles [...]

June 27, 1863, The New York Herald Our Harrisburg Correspondence. HARRISBURG, June 21, 1863. CONFIRMATION OF GOV. CURTIN’S ORDER ABOUT ENLISTMENTS. The telegram I sent you of the confirmation by the Secretary of War of Governor Curtin’s promise to the Pennsylvania troops to muster them out of service as soon as the public necessities would [...]

June 27, 1863, The New York Herald Our Frederick City Correspondence. FREDERICK CITY, June 20, 1863. The excitement occasioned by the proximity of the enemy continues, and the streets are occupied by groups of residents eagerly devouring the reports of refugees. Nearly all of the prominent Union citizens have left. Many of the stores are [...]

June 27, 1863, The New York Herald Our Baltimore Correspondence. BALTIMORE, June 25, 1863. The light breaks at last. The news which I have received this morning, and which I send you below, dispels the last remaining doubt in regard to General Lee’s intentions, and affords, as you will see, a clear prognosis of what [...]

June 27, 1863, The New York Herald Mr. F.G. Chapman’s Letters. MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Md., June 19, 1863. With the promised return of the rebels to the Shenandoah valley and the line of the Upper Potomac, all outlying forces were ordered to concentrate upon certain points, with a view to making a final stand, if hard [...]

June 27, 1863, The New York Herald Mr. George H. Hart’s Letter. HEADQUARTERS, CAVALRY, June 24, 1863. My despatches embrace all the points of general interest or importance relating to the reconnoissance to the front by a portion of the Union cavalry; but a more detailed account may not be unacceptable. AT NEW BALTIMORE, a [...]

June 27, 1863, The New York Herald Our Harrisburg Correspondence. HARRISBURG, June 25, 1863. I regret to say that General Couch has been compelled to issue orders restricting the privileges of correspondents. He feels aggrieved, and, though desirous of affording every means of information to the representatives of the various papers; is certain that some [...]

June 27, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The following extract from a letter from an officer in a Richmond battery, gives the clearest and most correct idea of the manner of the capture of Winchester and the movements of our troops immediately preceding that event, that has yet been given to the public. To those unfamiliar [...]

June 27, 1863, The New York Herald Carlisle Not in Possession of the Enemy. Gettysburg Occupied by the Rebels in Force. The Harrisburg Telegrams. HARRISBURG, June 26, 1863. The rebel advance in this direction still continues at a stand still in the vicinity of Carlisle. Telegraphic communication is open with the town up to the [...]

June 27, 1863, The New York Herald POSITION OF GENERAL BANKS. – The latest news from New Orleans and Port Hudson is of grave importance. Our correspondents accompanying the army of investment, under General Banks supply full and interesting details of the most recent operations against that stronghold. From these it appears that, after a [...]

June 26, 1863, Menphis Daily Appeal (Atlanta, Ga) Among the heroic defenders of Vicksburg, none merit more honorable mention than those of the gentler sex who dwell in that fire girdled city.   We are told that most of them have excavated caves in the hill sides where they repose with their children safe from [...]

June 26, 1863, American Citizen (Canton, Mississippi)             We have been requested to solicit all the people in this and the adjoining counties, to bring in butter, eggs, chickens, mutton, roasting ears, vegetables of all kinds–and those living near are requested to bring milk, sweet or butter,–for the use of the hospitals in Canton.             [...]

June 26, 1863, Richmond Enquirer People in civil life cannot pretend to criticise, in its present stage, a grand campaign such as that now entered upon by our army of Northern Virginia. We do not so much as know its object; and therefore still less can we pronounce on the suitableness of the means. – [...]

June 26, 1863, The New York Herald We have some additional facts, and a superabundant supply of rumors and conjectures, regarding the movements and designs of the rebel army of Virginia. In other words, a bushel of chaff has accumulated upon our hands since yesterday morning, and we desire to ascertain, as far as possible, [...]

June 26, 1863, The New York Herald The Harrisburg Telegrams. HARRISBURG, Pa., June 25, 1863. The Coatesville cavalry, of Chester county, received orders to proceed to Carlisle immediately. Mr. Fisher has arrived here from Chambersburg, and gives an entirely different version to the sensation intelligence received from there. He states that he saw no rebel [...]

June 26, 1863, The New York Herald Despatches from Harrisburg to half-past two o’clock yesterday afternoon stated that the enemy was advancing slowly, but that the best order prevailed in the city. The excitement of the previous days had considerably abated. During the entire of Wednesday night and all day yesterday, long trains of wagons, [...]

June 25, 1863, The New York Herald All the news from Harrisburg would indicate that the rebels are moving directly upon that city, though slowly, not only with cavalry, but with a large army of infantry and artillery to support them. They were only six miles from Carlisle yesterday, and were still advancing. Our troops [...]

June 25, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Early last winter the people of the Confederate States were horrified at the miserable plight into which our brave troops had fallen for the want of clothes, and shoes, and blankets. A little foresight and enterprise in the Quartermaster department at Richmond might readily have avoided such a condition [...]

June 25, 1863, The New York Herald The new campaign has now developed itself. It is a campaign of genuine invasion; but what is the prize? The theory that Lee, under cover of a pretended invasion, was sending away his army to Bragg, is exploded. Far more likely it is that Bragg has sent away [...]

June 25, 1863, Mobile Register And Advertiser             This, we learn from the Jacksonville (Ala.) Republican, is the real name of the young heroine who mounted the horse behind Gen. Forrest and conducted him to the ford on Black Creek, in his pursuit of the Yankee marauders.  At a meeting of Capt. Fouche’s company, held [...]

June 25, 1863, The Charleston Mercury THE NEWS FROM RICHMOND. RICHMOND, June 23. – Sixteen hundred Yankee prisoners arrived this evening from Winchester including 208 officers. We have nothing by the Central train this evening. Telegraphic communication with Knoxville by the Western line has been re-established. About a thousand negros were captured at Winchester; also [...]

June 25, 1863, The New York Herald Our Baltimore Correspondence. BALTIMORE, June 19, 1863. General Lee’s delay in attacking Hooker has led to some doubts as to whether Washington is really the object at the capture of which he is aiming. But of this there can be no doubt, in view of the following facts, [...]

June 25, 1863, The New York Herald Mr. DeKay Mortimer’s Letter. NEW ALBANY, Ind., June 20, 1863. The people of this portion of the State have been little dreaming of a visit from the rebels, though they have long been prepared for it. It may well be imagined that the events of the past two [...]