Wednesday, 11th–All is quiet. The commissioned officers of our brigade had a meeting at brigade headquarters for the purpose of considering ways and means for arming the colored men, since they have been declared free. The plan is to put them under good officers for garrison service, thus relieving that number of men for the [...]

11th. After getting up beef and bread, issued rations for 10 days. Drove round in wagon and distributed the potatoes. Through in good season. In the evening played checkers and finished my letter to Fannie. Received a good letter from her, also one from Frederick.

Washington Wednesday March 11th 1863 When I looked out of the window this morning everything was covered with Snow. But it has all disapeared tonight leaving a due quantity of mud in its place. No important events are chronicled in the papers today. In looking ahead a month ago I thought it impossible that a [...]

MARCH 11th.—Gen. Fitzhugh Lee has made a dash into Fairfax (near Washington) a day or two ago, and captured the Federal Gen. Slaughter and other officers, in their beds. Last night one of the government warehouses in this city was burnt. It is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary traitor; perhaps in [...]

March 11, 1863, The Charleston Mercury HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT GEORGIA, Savannah, March 9th, 1863. (General Orders No. 21.) In calling the attention of the troops in this District to the successful repulse, on the 3d inst., of three turreted iron-clad gunboats and three mortar boats by Fort McAllister, the Brigadier General commanding again returns his hearty [...]

March 11, 1863, The New York Herald Away up in the Rocky Mountain region, north of Utah and Colorado, and West of Nebraska, lies the country named Shosone on some of our maps, to be hereafter known as Idaho, pronounced with the accent on the first and last syllables. It embraces four degrees of latitude [...]

March 11, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The Charleston correspondent of the Mobile Advertiser and Register, in alluding to the constant threats of the Yankees in regard to the attacked upon this place, says: The struggle, when it comes, will certainly be of a fearful character. It will be the shock of tremendous forces, the relative [...]

March 11, 1863, The New York Herald The President has issued an important proclamation today on the matter of soldiers absent from their regiments without leave. He gives a few days’ grace to all such, up to the 1st of April, at which time all those who report themselves to the nearest headquarters, as designated [...]

March 11, 1863, The New York Herald EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 10, 1863. In pursuance of the twenty-sixth section of the act of Congress entitled an act for enrolling and filling out of the national forces and for other purposes, approved on the 3d of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, [...]