Thursday, 5th–We had regimental and camp inspection this morning at 10 o’clock, conducted by a major of General McPherson’s staff. We came out in splendid order. The officers of the Eleventh Iowa met at 6 o’clock this evening to draw up resolutions demanding the hunting down of all Copperheads in the North. The steam tug [...]
Washington Thursday March 5th 1863. We are disappointed today as the report last night of the Capture of Fort McAllister is contradicted today. Still, there is something that is favorable to the Union cause as gold has fallen down to 150, or twenty percent in one day. We will hear news in a day or [...]
5th. My back quite well. Not much going on during the day. In the evening the boys mostly went out to town and mobbed the “Crisis” and then went to the “Statesman” but did no damage. Medary and the press were in Cincinnati. The boys carried off all the books, etc., they could find. Note: [...]
MARCH 5th.—Yesterday the government seized the flour in the mills and warehouses; and now the price has risen from $30 to $40 per barrel. I wrote to the Commissary, in view of the dissatisfaction of the people, and to prevent disturbances, advising him to seize the 5000 barrels in the hands of the small speculators, [...]
Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Jackson, Tenn., March 5, 1863. You certainly should not complain of my neglect, in writing no more than once in ten days while we are quartered at such an intolerably stupid place as this, for there really have not been two incidents ocurred worthy of notice, since we pitched our tents [...]
March 5, 1863, The Charleston Mercury In humiliating ourselves as a people, under the calamities brought upon us in this cruel war, we are called upon to recognize the chastening hand of an Omnipotent, Just and Gracious Father. And, while considering our sins as a people, and confessing that have left undone those things which [...]
March 5, 1863, The Charleston Mercury CHATTANOOGA, March 4. – VAN DORN attacked the enemy at Franklin, 18 miles south of Nashville, on Sunday last, with cavalry and light artillery, capturing three thousand Yankee troops, with their stores and equipments. The enemy captured several foraging wagons belonging to WHEELER’S brigade, near Wartrace on the 1st [...]
March 5, 1863, The New York Herald We intend to publish tomorrow a carefully prepared and accurate alphabetical table of the rates of internal duty now imposed by the national Tax law. The table will present all the rates imposed by the law as it now stands, including those which were not altered by the [...]
March 5, 1863, The New York Herald Despatches from Savannah state that the rebel steamer Nashville ran aground before Fort McAllister and was destroyed by the Union iron-clads. The fort, however, is not captured. There is nothing in the Richmond journals relative to affairs at Vicksburg, neither has any definite news of importance reached us [...]
March 5, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The Yankee newspapers have latterly abounded in circumstantial accounts of the defences of Charleston harbor, which neither deserters from any particular post nor scouting parties, by day or by night, could possibly obtain. Information being essential to their military operations, it is reasonable to suppose the enemy has employed [...]
March 5, 1863, The Charleston Mercury From the Savannah papers of yesterday we glean the following additional particulars of the action at Genesis Point: The fire on the fort was opened about half past 7 o’clock from three iron-clad turret boats, which had taken position in front of the batteries, and two or three mortar [...]