February 5th, Thursday night. A letter from Lavinia has come to me all the way from California. How happy it made me, though written so long ago! Only the 30th of June! Lavinia has changed, changed. There is a sad, worn-out tone in every line; it sounds old, as though she had lived years and [...]
5th. Continued the reading of “Tom Brown.” The talk of consolidation is making the boys very much dissatisfied. There will be more deserters. In the evening recited my lesson.
Thursday, 5th–Weather pleasant. I was detailed to go out on picket, but the order was countermanded. There is some talk of our leaving the place. It is reported in camp that on account of the flood the work on the canal had to be given up, and that an effort would be made to turn [...]
Washington Thursday Feb’y 5th 1863. I hardly know how to fill out a page tonight. It has been cold and Stormy having snowed most of the day, tonight the snow is more like rain and the weather has moderated. I was on the Ave after I left the office and bought a pair of rubbers, [...]
FEBRUARY 5th.—It snowed again last night. Tuesday night the mercury was 8° below zero. A dispatch from Gen. Beauregard says sixty sail of the enemy have left Beaufort, N. C., for Charleston. A British frigate (Cadmus) has arrived at Charleston with intelligence that the Federal fleet of gun-boats will attack the city immediately; and that [...]
February 5, 1863, The New York Herald The news which we published yesterday of the successful raid of the rebel iron-clads against our blockading force at Charleston is, so far as the number and value of the federal vessels destroyed are concerned, of but very little moment. The moral effect of the reverse, however, is [...]
February 5, 1863, The New York Herald We have news to the 30th ultimo from Vicksburg. At that day General Grant, chief in command, had arrived. The work of widening and deepening – the famous cutoff was progressing; but the rebels, snuffing their danger, had planted a battery on the opposite, or Mississippi, side of [...]
February 5, 1863, The New York Herald Our Memphis Correspondence. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 27, 1863. A portion of Gen. Grant’s army has already moved off in transports for Milliken’s Bend, and the remainder is on the way to this city to be transported to the same destination. In a week or two – judging by [...]
February 5, 1863, The New York Herald There is nothing new from the Army of the Potomac. Everything is quiet in that direction. The attack by the rebels on Fort Donelson, which we reported yesterday, resulted in their entire defeat. At the commencement of the action of the enemy took four of our guns at [...]
February 5, 1863, The New York Herald Since it seems to be now resolved that we are to have a negro army to put the finishing touches on the rebellion, it is to be hoped that no time will be lost in commencing a draft for that purpose. The one hundred and fifty thousand suggested [...]
February 5, 1863, The Charleston Mercury For fifteen months, or since the MUIR business, the esequatur of Mr. ROBERT BUNCH from the United States Government has been withdrawn. HE has been the Consular Agent of her Britannic Majesty at this port, and is now permanently withdrawn by his Government. We learn that, both from the [...]