Tuesday, 31st.—Warrenton has been badly torn up by shells, and the levee being cut, the water is about three feet deep all over town, but the houses being up on posts about four feet high, the water was not up into them. South of the town there is a vast expanse of water, covering several [...]
March 31st. This morning at six o’clock, got under way and steamed down the river, followed by the Albatross, and ram Switzerland; at eight-thirty A. M. we all came to anchor; sent boats on shore for fresh provisions; unfortunately but very little could be obtained; at six-thirty P. M. got under way again, and proceeded [...]
Tuesday, 31st–Warm and pleasant today. More troops passed down the river. I commenced cooking for the captain and officers of our company.[1] I was considered a pretty good cook at home, but having so few utensils here, I fear there will be quite a contrast. [1] It seems that Private Downing was to get $5.00 [...]
Tuesday, March 31st. “To be, or not to be; that’s the question.” Whether ‘t is nobler in the Confederacy to suffer the pangs of unappeasable hunger and never-ending trouble, or to take passage to a Yankee port, and there remaining, end them. Which is best? I am so near daft that I cannot pretend to [...]
31st. Got up rations for the next issue. Read some in “Country Living and Country Thinking,” by Gail Hamilton. Was particularly interested in “Men and Women,” a good deal of sense and truth. In the evening wrote to Ella Clark.
The following material contains wording that may be offensive to many in the world of today. However, the work is provided unedited for its historical content and context. Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Lagrange, Tenn., March 31, 1863. I have lost my negro, Bob. The cavalry have been indulging in a pretty rough fight near here, [...]
MARCH 31st.—Another stride of the grim specter, and corn-meal is selling for $17 per bushel. Coal at $20.50 per ton, and wood at $30 per cord. And at these prices one has to wait several days to get either. Common tallow candles are selling at $1 per pound. I see that some furnished houses are [...]
March 31, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois) The signs of the times clearly indicate that the people of the Northern States are moving, and that we are in the midst of a great conservative, political revolution, which is destined to sweep every vestige of republicanism into oblivion.The movement which was inaugurated last fall, in the [...]
March 31, 1863, New Orleans Bee The United States steamer Honduras arrived here on Sunday from the Rio Grande, having two hundred and sixty refugees from Texas.The Era learns the following from Lieutenant Colonel Stancel: On the morning of the 15th a force of Confederates of about one hundred and fifty men crossed the Rio [...]
March 31, 1863, The Charleston Mercury It is the part of the truly brave seldom to make an undue estimate of the dangers or difficulties before them, but to see things as they are, because passions are not permitted to pervert judgment. Their hopes and expectations are not beyond the warrant of events, and fears [...]
March 31, 1863, Nashville Dispatch Yesterday afternoon six or seven of Uncle Sam’s four-in-hands drove up to the Recorder’s office, laden down with a lot of contrabands, varying in age from d’enfant to second childhood, except the strong middle-aged, whom the officer in charge was about to consign to the care of the Recorder, when [...]
March 31, 1863, The New York Herald The United States steam transport New Brunswick, Captain Winchester, from New Orleans 23d inst., arrived here yesterday morning. Advices per the New Brunswick report the return of Gen. Grover’s forces to the vicinity of Baton Rouge. Three hundred and fifty bales of cotton, twelve to fifteen hundred hogsheads [...]
March 31, 1863, The New York Herald An attack by the rebel cavalry, one hundred strong, was made yesterday on our cavalry patrol on the telegraph road, between Dumfries and the Occaquan. Eight of our men were captured. An expedition from General Hooker’s army, under colonel Fairchild, which was sent out recently to Northern Neck, [...]
March 31, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Reports reached the city last evening, by the Savannah train, to the effect that, on Sunday afternoon, two regiments of the enemy landed upon John’s Island and drove in our pickets. In the skirmishing which ensured, three of the enemy are said to have been made prisoners. It is [...]
March 31, 1863, Nashville Dispatch Before the Chief of Army Police, Nashville, March 30, 1863.– . . . Mrs. John Trainor was arrested under a charge of being associated with her husband in his extensive smuggling operations.She was arrested in Louisville, Ky., and brought to this place. C. Tavel, a druggist of Louisville, Ky., was [...]
March 31, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) Fifteen or twenty women, the leader of whom carried a revolver, in Atlanta, on Wednesday, went around to a number of grocery stores, seizing bacon, meal and vegetables, paying such prices as they thought proper. They were dispersed by the police. The Confederacy says the women were only [...]
March 31, 1863, The New York Herald UNITED STATES SLOOP-OF-WAR RICHMOND, OFF PROPHET ISLAND, MISSISSIPPI RIVER, March 15, 1863. Port Hudson, the rebel stronghold on the Mississippi, was attacked by the Union fleet, under command of Admiral Farragut, last night. The result was a partial success, as the flagship Hartford and the gunboat Albatross succeeded [...]
Camp Winder, March 31, 1863. You will have, in your troubles on the farm, much to try your patience. My advice to you is to bear it all in good temper, to know all that is going on; and by devoting your mind to it you will find that you succeed much better than you [...]
Monday, 30th.—I am detailed to go to Warrenton on fatigue duty to remain five days. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)
March 30th. To-day we have been taking in provisions that were sent down to us from the upper fleet; it was sent to us in the same manner that our coal was a few days ago–a large lighter filled, and then sent drifting down with the current at night. The gunboat Albatross, which is kept [...]
Monday, 30th–A cool wind again today. Several boats loaded with troops went down the river today bound for the vicinity of Vicksburg. I am in hopes that they will do something.
30th. After issuing the bread and beef went to Columbus with Chester. It was a delightful ride, the air so mild and warm. Went to the Blind Asylum to see about a collar. Went to a bookstore and bought “Les Miserables.” Got back about 5. Studied and recited lesson in evening. After recitation wrote to [...]
MARCH 30th.—Gen. Bragg dispatches the government that Gen. Forrest has captured 800 prisoners in Tennessee, and several thousand of our men are making a successful raid in Kentucky. Gen. Whiting makes urgent calls for reinforcements at Wilmington, and cannot be supplied with many. Gen. Lee announces to the War Department that the spring campaign is [...]
March 30, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We regret to learn that considerable inconvenience has been felt by the North Carolina troops now on this coast, owing to the refusal of the people, in many instances, to receive North Carolina State currency in payment for purchases. The reluctance to take this kind of money is, of [...]
March 30, 1863, The New York Herald A despatch from Fortress Monroe states that the rebels, with a force of infantry and cavalry, yesterday morning attacked Williamsburg and were repulsed by the Fifth Pennsylvania cavalry under Colonel Lewis. The loss is not reported. It was stated by an officer who came into Norfolk yesterday from [...]