Sunday, 8th. Spent the day very quietly in camp. Finished “Tom Brown” and read some in “Sermons on the New Life,” and in my Bible. Archie called for me to go to town with him, but I had some invoices, etc., to make out, so stayed in camp.
Sunday, 8th–Orders came for the detail of men to quit the work of repairing the levee and for our entire division immediately to embark on the transports. The Eleventh and Thirteenth Regiments went on board the “Empress” and loaded all their supplies after night; at the last moment the Tenth Ohio was ordered to take [...]
Washington Sunday Feb’y 8th 1863. A most delightful bright and warm day but wet and muddy crossings. I attended divine service at the Capitol again this morning, heard Dr Stockton. He was not as tedious as usual. There was a very good congregation present, a large portion Strangers. They go to the Capitol for the [...]
FEBRUARY 8th.—From intelligence received yesterday evening, it is probable the Alabama, Harriet Lane, and Florida have met off the West Indies, and turned upon the U.S. steamer Brooklyn. The account says a large steamer was seen on fire, and three others were delivering broadsides into her. The United States press thought the burning steamer was [...]
February 8, 1863, The New York Herald The Union Ram Queen of the West Successfully Rams the Blockade. Sketch of the Queen of the West and Her Commander. The Queen of the West is one of the celebrated ram fleet organized by the late Colonel Charles Ellet, Jr., and now commanded by his son, Brigadier [...]
February 8, 1863, The New York Herald A court martial lately convened at Washington, to consider certain charges brought against General Fitz John Porter, found him guilty, and, upon the verdict of the court, he was dismissed by the President in disgrace from the army, and forever excluded from office under the federal government. It [...]
February 8, 1863, The New York Herald There is no news from the Rappahannock today. The condition of the roads is such as to prohibit all possibility of any advance movements. Rumors are afloat – although not substantiated – that the President was disposed to recall General McClellan to the command of the Army of [...]
Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Jackson, Tenn., February 7, ’63. There was a dose of medicine administered to the command in this district yesterday that will certainly be productive of good. I already feel that it has indued me with fresh vigor and really made me quite young again. “The sale or introduction of the Chicago [...]
7th. After my morning work, issuing bread and beef and tending to my horse, Thede went to town for the girls. Called at Capt. N.’s quarters in the P. M. to see them. Good time. No lesson in the evening, so many of the boys away at theatre. I went over to Chester’s. Played checkers [...]
Saturday, 7th–While waiting for orders, I went down to a daguerreotype gallery[1] and had my likeness taken. The water is still rising and the report in camp is that our division is to proceed up the river to Lake Providence, Louisiana, and cut the levee to let the water of the Mississippi through to the [...]
Washington Saturday Feb’y 7th 1863. This has been a bright and beautiful day overhead, some mud under foot. I was quite surprised to receive a visit at the office today from Genl Havelock dressed in full uniform. He came into the Hall and enquired for me and his presence created quite a stir as he [...]
FEBRUARY 7th.—We have a dispatch from Texas, of another success of Gen. Magruder at Sabine Pass, wherein he destroyed a large amount of the enemy’s stores. But we are calmly awaiting the blow at Charleston, or at Savannah, or wherever it may fall. We have confidence in Beauregard. We are more anxious regarding the fate [...]
February 7, 1863, The New York Herald WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 1863. Much feeling is exhibited here in regard to the publication of a pamphlet purporting to be the evidence in full in the Fitz John Porter trial. This is a base and most contemptible swindle, the evidence for the defence, which is threefold more lengthy [...]
February 7, 1863, The New York Herald Our White Oak Church Correspondence. NEAR WHITE OAK CHURCH, Va., Feb. 4, 1863. The weather yesterday was terribly severe. Although it was clear, there were high winds and a freezing temperature to penetrate the flimsy shelter tents or dash down the chimneys of the soldiers’ huts, and scatter [...]
February 7, 1863, The Charleston Mercury BANKS is weaving a net of despotism over that portion of our sister State, the meshes of which are more subtle than the policy of BUTLER. The latter was open in his tyranny, and the brutal and rigorous manner in which he enforced his edicts, only served to strengthen [...]
February 7, 1863, The Charleston Mercury It is a well ascertained fact that South Carolina has within her bosom the purest Iron ores that can be found upon the globe. Commencing in Spartanburg, and running through the upper portions of Union and York Districts, there exist vast beds of the finest magnetic, hematite and limonite [...]
February 7, 1863, The New York Herald There is nothing further of importance from Charleston today later than our former despatches. The Army of the Potomac is still quiescent. The roads, after the late storm, are in sad condition, rendering all movements impossible. By an arrival at Suffolk from Richmond we learn that the new [...]
Friday, 6th.—Ground frozen this morning. Nothing has been doing for several days, except some little cannonading along the river. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)
Feb. 6th. Since my last entry nothing has occurred worthy of note. This morning at ten thirty all hands were called to up anchor; got under way and stood down the river; at seven P. M., came to anchor off Pilot Town.
6th. Called at the captain’s quarters. Told me Fannie Hudson was coming that day at noon. Am glad. Would I could see Will, too.
Friday, 6th–We hear that we are to move up the river to an island where General McPherson’s command is. About one hundred transports with troops aboard are tied up along the levee on the Louisiana side, awaiting orders to go up the river, while still others are being loaded. The plan is to go into [...]
Friday Feb’y 6th 1863. This day has passed off very quietly. Some rebel stories floating about tonight to the effect that there had been a “raid” on Aquia Creek, that all our immense Stores had been Burned &c. “Secesh” has been quite jubilent about it this evening. It is, of course, all “bosh.” I stoped [...]
FEBRUARY 6th.—Gen. Lee thinks Charleston will be assailed, and suggests that all the troops in North Carolina be concentrated near Wilmington, and he will undertake the defense of the rest of the State. Nevertheless, if the government deems it more important to have his troops sent to North Carolina, than to retain them for the [...]
February 6, 1863, The New York Herald Despatches received from Fortress Monroe at Washington yesterday, state that the blockade at Charleston was not interrupted for any considerable time by the dispersion of the Union fleet on Saturday, the 31st of January. While there can be no doubt that the port was opened by the sudden [...]
February 6, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The report of the Secretary of War recently sent into Congress, communicates some interesting and most encouraging information in relation to our military affairs, and present the encouraging conclusion that our army is fully equal, if not superior, in all the elements of strength, to what it has been [...]