Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Jackson, Tenn., February 18, 1863. The prominent rumor to-day, and one in which there seems to be considerable stock taken, is that Governor Yates has obtained authority from the general government to have several regiments from Grant’s army returned to Illinois, as a kind of public police. That is, to repress [...]
Wednesday, February 18th. Gibbes has gone back to his regiment. I can’t say how dreary I felt when he came to tell me good-bye. I did not mean to cry; but how could I help it when he put his arms around me? . . .
Washington Wednesday Feb. 18th 1863. It has been about as unpleasant as it is possible for it to be today. It has rained nearly all day, and the snow and water on the pavement is nearly over shoes in depth. I have kept very close only going from my room to the office and back [...]
18th. After a late breakfast, at which John Devlin partook with me, and my morning work over, I finished my letter to Fannie and got out Cream to take letters to town, when I saw Chester homeward bound, so I stayed. Read in “Life of Washington” and played some at checkers. Received letters of Dec. [...]
Wednesday, 18th–We came in from picket this morning. The day is warm but cloudy. News came that another one of our gunboats accompanying a barge loaded with hay ran the blockade at Vicksburg.
FEBRUARY 18th.—Mr. H_____s, another of Gen. Winder’s detectives, has gone over to the enemy. He went on a privateering cruise from Wilmington; the vessel he sailed in captured a brig, and H_____s was put in command of the prize, to sail into a Confederate port. Instead of this, however, H_____s sailed away for one of [...]
February 18, 1863, The Charleston Mercury MOVEMENTS OF THE ENEMY –THE ‘FATHER OF WATERS’ IN OUR FAVOR –STRENGTH OF THE DEFENCES OF VICKSBURG –NO DANGER OF ITS CAPTURE. (Correspondence of the Mobile Advertiser.) VICKSBURG, February 8. Great activity prevailing amongst the Yankee army yesterday morning, a rigid scrutiny was instituted on the part of our [...]
February 18, 1863, The New York Herald A correspondent of one of the radical journals of this city writes from Cairo in a most lachrymose strain about the manner in which freed negroes are treated there. There are seventeen hundred of them crowded in the […..], and their quarters are in the midst of mud [...]
February 18, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Another page, full of interest, and of glory too, we trust, is soon to be added to the history of the war. The enemy is gathering vast fleets and armies upon our coast, and all the indications warrant the belief that, ere many days, they will be hurled against [...]
February 18, 1863, The New York Herald Never, since the bombardment of Fort Sumter, has there been such a general and remarkable suspension of active hostilities as that which now prevails, by land and water, around the entire circle of the rebellion. Under an armistice, authoritatively proclaimed, this suspension of battles and skirmishes, raids and [...]
February 18, 1863, The New York Herald Our news from the Army of the Potomac, though not very important, proves that active operations are going on. An expedition started for Belle Plain on Thursday last, to break up smuggling on the peninsula between the Rappahannock and Potomac rivers, and to prevent the enforcement of the [...]
February 18, 1863, The Charleston Mercury HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT S.C., GA. AND FLA., CHARLESTON, S.C., February 17, 1863. It has become my solemn duty to inform the authorities and citizens of Charleston and Savannah, that the movements of the enemy’s fleet indicates an early land and naval attack on one or both of these cities, and [...]
February 18, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The flag of truce boat came up with Mrs. Jas. Sanchez and three children yesterday afternoon. We have been enabled to glean the following information by this arrival: Mrs. Sanchez and family were taken from St. Augustine to Hilton Head, thence to Beautiful, and not allowed to leave the [...]