Sunday morning, March 16th (15th), two o’clock. The fighting is still going on with our ships below, and the mortars are still contesting with the enemy. In our action we lost one man killed, and two slightly wounded. Three o’clock A. M., one hour later; the firing below has ceased, enemy still in possession of [...]
Sunday, 15th–We had an all day rain. I was relieved from guard at 9 o’clock a. m. We see very little of our chaplain at this camp, for he is seldom here and we have no one to occupy the regimental pulpit. Two brigades of General Quimby’s Division boarded the transports and left today for [...]
Sunday, March 15th. To my unspeakable surprise, I waked up this morning and found myself alive. Once satisfied of that, and assuring myself of intense silence in the place of the great guns which rocked me to sleep about half-past two this morning, I began to doubt that I had heard any disturbance in the [...]
15th. After the morning work was done, bathed all over. Thede and Lu Emmons came in and stayed some time. Wrote a line to Major Purington and a letter to Cousin Augusta Austin. Read an excellent sermon in the Independent on the differences between the good and bad. Day passed very quietly.
Washington Sunday March 15th 1863. I saw today what has of late become quite common here, a Company of thirty or forty Prisoners and refugees from Virginia march through the City under guard to the Provost Marshalls office. The most of them were refugees from Richmond, foreigners, some of them with their families. Some of [...]
March 15th.—Weather dark and cloudy. We had a good congregation in our little church. Mr.–– read the service. The Bishop preached on “Repentance.” Richmond was greatly shocked on Friday, by the blowing up of the Laboratory, in which women, girls, and boys were employed making cartridges; ten women and girls were killed on the spot, [...]
MARCH 15th.—Another cold, disagreeable day. March so far has been as cold and terrible as a winter month.
Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Lagrange, Tenn., March 15, 1863. I have just returned from a walk to and inspection of the cemetery belonging to this nice little town. There, as everywhere, the marks of the “Vandal Yankees” are visible. The fence which formerly enclosed the whole grounds has long since vanished in thin air, after [...]
March 15, 1863, The New York Herald Our Port Royal Correspondence. PORT ROYAL, S.C., March 7, 1863. The gunboat Conemaugh, Lieutenant Commander Eastman, accomplished a very clever thing last week while on her post off Georgetown, S.C. A steamer was discovered one morning making her way towards the entrance of the North Santee, which lies [...]
March 15, 1863, The New York Herald A telegram was received in Washington yesterday from General Rosecrans, stating that information had reached him of the evacuation of Vicksburg by the rebels. It was known that they have been for some time past moving their stores into the interior, but it was thought at Washington that [...]
March 15, 1863, The New York Herald Interesting Marriage Ceremony in General Hooker’s Army. The Altar Formed of All the Regimental Drums, &c., &c., &c. Our Falmouth Correspondence. IN CAMP, NEAR FALMOUTH, March 13, 1863. Yesterday was a gala day in the camp of one of the brigades stationed here, or, as one of the [...]
Camp Winder, March 15,1863. I will devote a part of this quiet Sunday evening to a letter home. Our camp looks to-day like it was Sunday. We stop our usual work when Sunday comes, and, like Christian people, devote it to rest. To-day I attended our church and listened to a very earnest and impressive [...]