Wednesday, 8th–We did not get into bivouac until late last night, and again started on our march early this morning. We marched until 3 p. m., when we halted to rest, going into bivouac for the night in a large field of cow-peas, near the town of Ripley, Mississippi. We ran out of rations and [...]

Wednesday, 8th. Commenced drizzling in the morning and kept it up all day. I was detailed to act as Sergt. Major, which pleased me much. Went with picket detail and reported to Stewart at Salomon’s headquarters. Went down and saw Battery boys, and Archie, Reeve, Brooks, and Mason. Good time. In the P. M. Major [...]

Wednesday, 8th.—Left camp at 5 A. M. Marched to Versailes and rested awhile; again ordered forward. Various rumors to-day; some say there is from 10,000 to 20,000 Yankees near. Crossed Kentucky River at 7 P. M.; halted at 8; rested until 1 A. M.; ordered forward at 5 A. M.; pickets fighting; look for hard [...]

OCTOBER 8th.—At last we have definite accounts of the battle of Corinth, on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday last. We have been defeated, and fearful has been the slaughter on both sides. The enemy had overwhelming numbers. We have no particulars, further than that our army retreated This is bad for Van Dorn and Price. My [...]

Oct. 8—Walk five miles with J. W. Ellis as he starts to North Carolina as Senator. This Christian gentleman, a lawyer of Columbus county, enlisted in Co. E as a private, August 28, 1861. His friends elected him to the North Carolina Senate in 1862. He had a walk of about ninety miles to Staunton, [...]

October 8, 1862, The New York Herald The main body of the rebel army of Virginia, at least one hundred thousand strong, under General Lee, was, at the date of our last advices, encamped between Charlestown and Winchester, apparently awaiting and expecting an attack from General McClellan. The next rebel column in importance was that [...]

October 8, 1862, The Charleston Mercury (Correspondence of the Mobile Advertiser.) TUPELO, September 29. There are many inquiries as to the object and result of General Price’s late march to and retreat from Iuka, and a great desire to know whether it resulted in any advantage, or proved a failure or reverse. The palpable evidence [...]

October 8, 1862, Nashville Daily Union (Tennessee) A merchant at Independence Hill fourteen miles from Murfreesboro’, was robbed recently of $1,400 worth of goods and $4,000 in money by the guerrillas. His store was completely stripped. And these are the soldiers who protect our rights!

October 8, 1862, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser “Personne,” the correspondent of the Charleston Courier, recording some incidents of the late battles on Manassas Plains, mentions the following of an Alabama boy: It is related of a soldier belonging to the Eighth Alabama Regiment, that he found a Yankee in the woods, that being separated from his [...]

October 8, 1862, The New York Herald General Orders – No. 163. CAMP NEAR SHARPSBURG, Md., Oct. 7, 1862. The attention of the officers and soldiers of the Army of the Potomac is called to General Orders No. 139, War Department, Sept. 24, 1862, publishing to the army the President’s proclamation of Sept. 22. A [...]

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 [...]