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 [...]
Tuesday, 7th–We kept on the march last night till 1 a. m., when we stopped in bivouac. The men were all very tired, yet were willing and anxious to go on if only they could capture Price, or even a part of his army. Leaving our bivouac at 8 o’clock this morning, we again started [...]
Tuesday, 7th. Commenced a letter to Fannie after the morning work. Went to the river and washed some shirts with Sergt. Smith, Co. K., a boy whom I like much from short acquaintance. Mail arrived about noon, letters from Fannies A. and H., Sarah Felton, Fred and George Ashman. Went to 9th Kansas surgeon to [...]
Tuesday, 7th.—Orders to be ready to move at a moment’s notice. Some cannonading at a distance. Left camp at 2 P. M. Wagons all left behind; marching back in the direction of Versailes; crossed Kentucky River at McCowans Ferry, at sundown; camped on old camping-ground. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)
OCTOBER 7th.—Nothing further has been heard from Corinth. A great battle is looked for in Kentucky. All is quiet in Northern Virginia. Some 2500 Confederate prisoners arrived from the North last evening. They are on parole, and will doubtless be exchanged soon, as we have taken at least 40,000 more of the enemy’s men than [...]
October 1, 1862—Carry sundry letters to their places. Receive pay for July and August. Oct. 3—Hear from wife, at Chapel Hill. Babe is better. She went from Bladen to Chapel Hill with three children and a nurse (about one hundred miles) by private conveyance. Sunday, Oct. 5—Preach to a large, attentive audience. Fine day. Bright [...]
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 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 [...]