Friday, 20th–Nothing of importance today. We have drill twice a day. I received a pass and went to Lake Providence. The water is already in the streets and the army sutlers occupying vacant buildings will have to move out tomorrow. I purchased a tin plate and spoon for thirty cents.

20th. Issued bread and beef after breakfast. Then got up rations to issue for the remainder of the month. No lesson again. Read some and played checkers. C. G. slept with me last night and did not wake up, so has had to work all day. He received a letter from Fred.

March 20. This morning finds the storm unabated. The boat starts at daylight, passing Roanoke island, and enters the Albemarle, arriving at Plymouth late in the afternoon, where we make our quarters in a large warehouse on the wharf.

March 20th.—Severe snow-storm. This will retard the attack upon Fredericksburg, if the enemy designed it. We spent the morning in the parlour. N. P. read aloud the old-fashioned but amusing novel, “Pride and Prejudice,” in very spirited style. The event of the day was the arrival from Alexandria of a bundle, filled with useful articles [...]

March 20th, 1863.—Mattie and I have the whooping cough very bad. She cannot retain her food, though I do not suffer in that way, it is extremely painful. When the spells of coughing take me the blood oozes from my eyes, nose and ears. Three doctors have been called in and they say they never [...]

MARCH 20th.—The snow is eight inches deep this morning, and it is still falling fast. Not a beggar is yet to be seen in this city of 100,000 inhabitants! Hood’s division, mostly Texans, whose march to the Rappahannock was countermanded when it was ascertained that the enemy had been beaten back across the river, were [...]

March FRIDAY 20, 1863 I came in this morning to spend a few days with Shallie (Kirk] & Florence [Molloy], although in the Federal lines. We all attended prayer meeting, and observed our President’s fast day. Mrs. B. has not gone yet, met her at prayers.

March FRIDAY 20, 1863 Left at daylight, arrived at my Fathers about ten OC. Mrs B. and I staid, the rest went on to Memphis. She will remain several days—until the talk of our arrival has died away. I am happy to reach home yet tis terible to live under Yankee Tyranny—found all well, and [...]

March 20, 1863, The New York Herald The most important news of a late date from Vicksburg and Port Hudson which reach us from rebel sources is the disaster which occurred to Admiral Farragut’s fleet at the latter place, resulting in the burning of the Mississippi and the disabling of the Hartford. The Richmond papers [...]

March 20, 1863, The New York Herald The reports of the burning of the Mississippi and the disabling of the Hartford, which have reached us through rebel sources, have led to many suppositions among naval officers. It is evident that Admiral Farragut intended to run the batteries at Port Hudson under the cover of night [...]

March 20, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MERCURY.) RICHMOND, Monday, March 16. A curious wrangle has been going on in the Virginia Legislature about salt. Certain patriots own certain salt works, and out of the same have coined abundant money; wherefore certain other more patriotic patriots propose to turn the owners out of [...]

March 20, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The British iron screw steamer Georgiana, Capt. HUDSON, left Nassau (N. P.) on Sunday afternoon, March 15, for this city, having on board a valuable cargo of medicines, dry goods, and some six pieces of field artillery of the WHITWORTH and BLAKELY patterns. About one o’clock, on Thursday morning, [...]

March 20, 1863, The New York Herald Brigadier General Leonard F. Ross, the military commander of the Yazoo river expedition, is a native of Illinois, in which State he was born in the year 1823. He is, therefore, about forty years of age. He was a first lieutenant of the Fourth Illinois Volunteers during the [...]

March 20, 1863, The Charleston Mercury This gun, which was introduced by the French Emperor into service, as superseding all other smooth bore field artillery, is a lighter gun than the former twelve pounder, and thus capable of being manoeuvred by six horses on the field. It has a smaller charge of powder than the [...]

March 20th.—The slow shelling of Vicksburg goes on all the time, and we have grown indifferent. It does not at present interrupt or interfere with daily avocations, but I suspect they are only getting the range of different points; and when they have them all complete, showers of shot will rain on us all at [...]