Saturday, 7th–It is quite showery and things are growing fine. Farmers throughout here are putting into corn most all the land that is not flooded. There are few white men here and most of the able-bodied negro men are forming companies and regiments for the army of the North, to be under white officers.
Washington Saturday March 7th 1863. Another day has passed and no news to encourage any body. They have had a small fight in Tennessee where three or four of our Regiments were overpowered by superior numbers. All quiet on the Potomac. There is in fact a perfect Blockade of Mud and it is almost impossible [...]
Saturday, 7th. Finished my letter to Ella. Col. Abbey went to town and sent a barrel of flour to mother. Good. A Democratic mass meeting to consider the best way for democrats to protect their property. Finished “Mistress and Maid.”
MARCH 7th.—The President is sick, and has not been in the Executive Office for three days. Gen. Toombs, resigned, has published a farewell address to his brigade. He does not specify of what his grievance consists; but he says he cannot longer hold his commission with honor. The President must be aware of his perilous [...]
Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Jackson, Tenn., March 7, 1863. The rumors from Vicksburg in the Tribune of the 5th are enough to make one’s flesh creep, and more than sufficient to account for my little touch of the blues I do feel to-night as though some awful calamity had befallen our army somewhere. God grant [...]
March 7, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The Richmond Examiner gives us the following particulars of a brilliant success recently gained by our cavalry in the Valley of Virginia: A few days ago a detachment of Marylanders, from Gen. Jones’ command, had captured nine of the enemy’s pickets, with their horses and equipments, at Kearnstown, four [...]
March 7, 1863, The New York Herald Our news from Nashville reports a further renewal of the fight between our troops and the rebels under Van Dorn, at Springville, near Franklin, Tennessee, on Thursday. General Van Dorn is said to have eighteen thousand men under his command, and the Union force, being very inferior in [...]
March 7, 1863, The Charleston Mercury A volume entitled ‘West Point and Political Generals,’ soon to be issued by a Southern publishing house, gives a brief summary of the exploits of MORGAN, the great Kentucky Partisan. They border on the marvellous, yet they are strictly authentic. He began with a small body of horse, which [...]
March 7, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MERCURY.) RICHMOND, Tuesday, March 3. Everybody admits that the horizon is darker than at any previous stage of the war, yet everybody is cheerful and confident. Dictator LINCOLN, with his powers of purse and sword, has no terrors for a people who have endured and achieved [...]
March 7, 1863, The New York Herald NASHVILLE, March 6, 1863. There was fighting all day yesterday between the rebel General Van Dorn’s command and a Union force of three regiments of infantry, about five hundred cavalry, and one battery, at Springville, thirteen miles south of Franklin. Colonel Coburn’s three regiments of infantry were cut [...]