Thursday, 19th–I was again on duty today. Company drill at 9 o’clock and battalion drill at 2 o’clock. The troops which were in camp at the south side of the lake are on the move, going aboard transports to go down the river to find higher camping ground.

19th. In the morning cared for Rowena and gave out the bread. Read “Thirteen Months in the Rebel Service” by Stevenson, very interesting. No lesson in the evening. Capt. and Lt. Case gone home. Studied mine but did not care much about reciting. Wish I could go home now, too.

March 19. Heavy northeast storm blowing this morning. Steamer starts down the river and enters the sound about 10 o’clock, wind increases, the sound grows rough, the boat rolls, the boys grow sick, the water breaks on deck and many of them get wet; altogether the passage is rather unpleasant. We arrive at the north [...]

19th.—My birthday. While in Richmond, this morning, brother J. and myself called on some friends, among others our relative Mrs. H., who has lately been celebrating the marriage of her only son, and took us into the next room for a lunch of wine and fruit-cake. We had never, during two years, thought of fruit-cake, [...]

  MARCH 19th.—Snowing. It is estimated that we lost 250 men, killed, wounded, and taken, in the fight on the Rappahannock; the enemy’s loss is not known, but certainly was heavy, since they were defeated, and fled back, hotly pursued. Confederate money still depreciates, in spite of the funding act. Some of the brokers are [...]

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Lagrange, Tenn., March 19, 1863. Nine whole days of the most beautiful sunshiny weather imaginable. Warm as our home June, almost. The boys bathe in the river that runs near our camp. The little birds warble in the trees, the beautiful young ladies walk out to enjoy the gentle spring breezes. [...]

March THURSDAY 19, 1863   Left Senatobia very late, having to wait for the Ambulance. Arrived at Hernando at 3 OC—passed all of our Cavalry on retreat, at Cold Water Ferry.1 Bivouaced for the night at MrChristophers ten miles from Hernando. Mrs B. and I have been quite buisy making preparations to enter the Federal [...]

March 19, 1863, The New York Herald FORTRESS MONROE, March 18, 1863. The rebels made an attack on Newbern, N.C., last Friday, but were repulsed. This attack was, no doubt, made under the direction of the rebel General D. H. Hill, who has just been placed in command of the rebel troops in North Carolina. [...]

March 19, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We are rejoiced to hear from all quarters of the wonderful healthfulness of our soldiers in the field. While the enemy is from time to time shipping from Stafford and Murfreesboro’ such large bodies of sick and demoralized troops as to induce the belief that he is changing his [...]

March 19, 1863, The New York Herald Attack on Port Hudson and the Reported Repulse of the Union Naval Force. The following important telegraphic despatch was received last evening:– FORTRESS MONROE, March 18, 1863. The Richmond papers of the 17th say that on the 14th Admiral Farragut attacked Port Hudson and was repulsed. The Mississippi [...]

March 19, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The warm sunshine and the genial breezes of Spring have now released the mud-brown armies and the bloody work seems about to begin. From Tennessee we hear that the condition of the roads is the only consideration that postpones the conflict between the armies of BRAGG and ROSECRANS. A [...]

March 19, 1863, The New York Herald News of much importance, if it be true, reaches us from Fortress Monroe, based upon the statements of rebel newspapers at Richmond, to the effect that the fleet of Admiral Farragut has been repulsed by the rebels at Port Hudson, the frigate Mississippi burned and the flagship Hartford [...]