June 23, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Events have not yet declared the object of General LEE in advancing into Pennsylvania. At first we supposed that it was to carry into Pennsylvania the kind of war the Yankees have carried into the Confederate States – to lay waste this State as they have laid waste the [...]
June 23, 1863, The New York Herald The news from the Army of the Potomac bespeaks movements of great importance in operation or soon to be enacted in Virginia. The cavalry fight of Sunday may be but the prelude to a grand battle. Orders have been issued by General Hooker that […..] shall be said [...]
June 22, 1863, Semi-Weekly News (San Antonio, Texas) There have been one hundred and eighty applications filed in our County Court for relief, under the act of the last Legislature, granting assistance to soldiers’ families. The wife is allowed five dollars per month, and children two dollars; additional allowances are, however, made under peculiar [...]
June 22, 1863, Semi-Weekly News (San Antonio, Texas) The Macon Telegraph of the 2d, contains the following: A factory at Seven Island, in Butts county, had loaded a wagon with seven bales of manufactured goods, and dispatched it by their customary driver, a trusty negro, to Forsyth, for transportation upon the Macon and Western [...]
June 22, 1863, The New York Herald For the first time is laid before the public this morning in the HERALD an accurate narrative of the battle of Winchester, concerning which there had been so many conflicting accounts, most of them of an unfavorable nature, but some giving the Union General extraordinary credit for his [...]
June 22, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The Richmond papers bring us little news in addition to that already given with reference to the decisive victory of the Confederate forces at Winchester on Sunday last. The only intelligence they contain is obtained from parties who have left the Valley since the surrender of Winchester by the [...]
June 22, 1863, The New York Herald Our news today from the different scenes of action where the contending armies are employed is exceedingly full and interesting. Our correspondent at Monocacy Station states that the rebels occupied Frederick City last evening. It is certain, at least, that a force of them passed through it. They [...]
June 22, 1863, The Charleston Mercury A correspondent of the Columbus Times, writing from one of our camps on the Yazoo River, June 8th, gives an interesting statement of the condition and prospects of the Mississippi Campaign. He says: ‘Important movements are going on here now, which it would be imprudent to state. It is [...]
June 22, 1863, The Charleston Mercury STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE, COLUMBIA, S.C., June 17, 1863. GENERAL ORDERS No. 21. II. THE FOLLOWING PERSONS ARE EXEMPTED by Act of the General Assembly of this State from [….] militia service,’ and, therefore, from draft under General Orders No. 20, viz: The Lieutenant [...]
June 22, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MERCURY.) RICHMOND, Tuesday, JUne 16. LEE’S favorite movement, en echelon – that by which he uncovered the fords of the Chickahominy and swept McCLELLAN back to Harrison’s Bar, by which he advanced upon Manassas last year, and lately upon HOOKER at Chancellorsville and the Wilderness – [...]
June 22, 1863, Menphis Daily Appeal (Atlanta, Ga) A correspondent of the New York Times, writing from Grant’s camp, states that a Federal captain who was taken prisoner during the siege, and who was kept in Vicksburg several days, reports the scenes in the city as fearful. He says: The women and children [...]
June 22, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The negros in the Yankee service are enumerated as follows: General THOMAS’ recruits, 11,000; under General BANKS, 3000; in Kansas, 1000; in South Carolina, 3000; in North Carolina, 3000; under General ROSECRANS, 5000; under General SCHOFIELD, 2000; Massachusetts regiments, 1200; in the District of Columbia, 800; total, 30,000. There [...]
June 22, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas) The following letter shows what sort of stuff some of our boys are made of. Good for the little patriot. His example is worthy of imitation by children of larger growth: Iron Stone House, Two Miles Above Sutherland } Springs, Wilson County, Texas, } June 9th, [...]
Well dressed woman is shown praying in a furnished cave space. A crucifix is on the wall, the cave opening looks out on to the town. Published Baltimore 1863
June 20, 1863, The Charleston Mercury JACKSON, MISS., June 18. – For the first time in four days, heavy firing was heard at Vicksburg this morning. The latest accounts represent GRANT’S army to be busy fortifying and cutting down trees beyond the Big Black to impede the movements of JOHNSTON. Great distress prevails amongst our [...]
June 20, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Since the repulse of the fleet of iron-clad gunboats on the 7th of April, our people seem to have settled down into a condition of complacent inertness concerning the public defences in this locality. Now, confidence is undoubtedly a good thing, and its moral power is an admirable auxiliary, [...]
June 20, 1863, (Marshall) Texas Republican Mrs. Mary Hyde arrived at the Alton prison from Nashville, having been sentenced by Gen. Rosecrans to imprisonment during the war, in the Illinois penitentiary. The offence with which she is charged is “secession proclivities.”
June 20, 1863, The New York Herald Great activity still prevails in Pennsylvania both among the rebels and our own forces. The rebels were, up to yesterday evening, at or near Greencastle, having retired from Chambersburg hastily and in alarm. The Eighth and Seventy-first New York Militia went to Chambersburg, to march from thence to [...]
June 20, 1863, The New York Herald DETAILS OF THE REBEL MOVEMENTS. Our Shippensburg Correspondence. SHIPPENSBURG, Pa., June 17 – A.M. Eleven miles from this place is Chambersburg, and for a considerable distance in advance of the latter place and towards this locality are rebel pickets, videttes and foraging and scouting parties. Hence we are [...]
June 20, 1863, The New York Herald DETAILS OF THE REBEL MOVEMENTS. Our Greencastle Correspondence. GREENCASTLE, Pa., ELEVEN MILES FROM HAGERSTOWN, June 17, 1863. At one o’clock today the rebel column commenced to pass through this place rather leisurely. One of the commanding officers gave notice that the town would be burned in less than [...]
June 20, 1863, [Little Rock] Weekly Arkansas Gazette The least patriotic, and the most dangerous, sign of the times, is exhibited in the mania which possesses a portion of our people for trafficking with the enemy, which, more than any thing else, nay, more than all other causes combined, panders to the malign spirits [...]
June 20, 1863, The Charleston Mercury GLORIOUS NEWS FROM THE BORDER! GEN. LEE’S ARMY IN PENNSYLVANIA. SHELBYVILLE, TENN., June 18. – Nashville papers of the 7th have been received here. The news they contain is highly important. President LINCOLN has issued a Proclamation calling for 100,000 militia, to serve for six months. The following despatches [...]
June 20, 1863, The New York Herald DETAILS OF THE REBEL MOVEMENTS. Our Harrisburg Correspondence. HARRISBURG, Pa., June 19, 1863. APPEARANCE OF THE INTERIOR. We just returned from a hurried visit to the interior, and am glad to inform you that I found the citizens residing in the counties bordering on the line of the [...]
June 20, 1863, The New York Herald The bold and rapid movement of the rebel army of Virginia into the State of Pennsylvania calls for prompt and decisive action on the part of the Governors of the Northern States. This is the time to put all our available forces into the field. The rebels have [...]
June 20, 1863, The New York Herald From the numerous despatches which we publish this morning in reference to the movements of the rebel forces in Maryland, Pennsylvania, the Shenandoah valley and in the country between the eastern flank of the Blue Ridge and the old battle ground of Manassas, it would appear, first, that, [...]