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 [...]
Feb. 17th. To-day the U. S. steamer Mississippi got under way with a schooner in tow and proceeded up the river.
Washington Tuesday Feb. 17th 1863. Today we have a real old “fashioned Snow Storm.” It has snowed all day. The weather is mild and the snow melted fast, but it is about seven inches deep tonight on a level, a greater body of snow than we have had this three or four years. The side [...]
17th. After breakfast fixed up a little and went to town to see Melissa and get second volume of “Life of Washington.” Received an excellent letter from the fair Rowena. In the P. M. and evening wrote to Ella Clark and a little to Fannie. I like Ella Clark very much. She is talented and [...]
Tuesday, 17th–Another all night rain, which continued all day today. Our camp is again becoming very muddy. Company E went on picket duty today. Our camp guard has been taken off.
FEBRUARY 17th.—Gen. Lee is not sending troops to Charleston. He is sending them here for the defense of Richmond, which is now supposed to be the point of attack, by land and by water, and on both sides of the James River. Well, they have striven to capture this city from every point of the [...]
February 17, 1863, The New York Herald Our Hilton Head Correspondence. HILTON HEAD, S.C., Feb. 11, 1863. There seems to have been some misunderstanding as to whom belongs the command of the reinforcements for this department which have arrived from North Carolina during the present month. The fact that the divisions of Generals Naglee and [...]
February 17, 1863, The New York Herald The official account of the recent attack on our fleet in Charleston harbor, from Admiral DuPont, which we publish today, establishes the fact pretty clearly that the blockade of that port was never broken. The statements of the officers of the blockading vessels, which Admiral DuPont encloses, deny [...]
February 17, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MERCURY.) RICHMOND, Friday, February 13. It is rumored that Mr. BOYCE has been making a speech in secret session advocating conciliation towards the Northwest. Yesterday, the House, in its anxiety to dispose of the question of impressments, refused to go into secret session in order that [...]
Monday, 16th.—Rained all day; P. M., regiment went to town. One regiment of our brigade has to be in town every night, so that if the fleet should attack the city, could man the ditches at once. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)
Monday Feb 16th 1863 A beautiful day, bright and mild. No particular news or excitement in the City. Arrests are made almost every day of those acting as Spies, or engaged in contraband trade. Mr Nairn a prominent and wealthy Drugist was recently arrested for purchasing medicines for the Rebels. He is now in the [...]
16th. After breakfast exercised my horse a little bareback. Enjoyed it well, though it was hard work. Got her shod. Finished “Ravenshoe.” Rather pleased with the story. Mud deeper than ever. A poor woman told us how she had $6.25 stolen from her. Has two little children, dependent upon her daily work.
Monday, 16th–It rained all night and some today. Our canvas tents are no good in shedding water. I was on guard today, but on account of the heavy rain and high wind all the guards were taken off duty.
FEBRUARY 16th.—Another gun-boat has got past Vicksburg. But three British steamers have run into Charleston with valuable cargoes. Gem Lee is now sending troops to Charleston, and this strengthens the report that Hooker’s army is leaving the Rappahannock. They are probably crumbling to pieces, under the influence of the peace party growing up in the [...]
February 16, 1863, The New York Herald Our Key West Correspondence. KEY WEST, Jan. 24, 1863. During the stay of the United States steamer San Jacinto at this port I was enabled to obtain many interesting particulars from her officers regarding the escape of the Alabama from Fort Royal, island of Martinique, and it is [...]