March FRIDAY 13, 1863 Battle at Greenwood,1 had a long walk with Dr Moses to listen to the echoes of the distant cannons. Fate—how strange, and yet how blessed and happy. “Oh! who, in the course of his life, has not telt some joy without security and without the certainty of a morrow”— Battle of [...]
MARCH 13th.—To-day a great calamity occurred in this city. In a large room of one of the government laboratories an explosion took place, killing instantly five or six persons, and wounding, it is feared fatally, some thirty others. Most of them were little indigent girls!
March 13, 1863, The New York Herald The news from the army on the Rappahannock today is unimportant. The pickets of the enemy along certain portions of the line on the opposite side of the Rappahannock are one half negroes and one half white men. The negroes are armed and uniformed the same as the [...]
March 13, 1863, The Charleston Mercury There is a general prejudice against the Stars and Bars; though in itself a handsome banner. It is said to be too like the old Yankee concern, which has become so hateful. Fortunately, it is not the Flag under which our armies have won their most signal successes; and [...]
March 13, 1863, The New York Herald We publish in another column, from our special correspondent, a full account of the bombardment of Fort McAllister, on the Ogeechee river, and of the destruction of the Nashville by the United States gunboat Montauk, commanded by Lieutenant Worden, who has covered himself with glory. It is true [...]
March 12th. The Genesee went up the river to-day with two mortar schooners in tow.
Thursday, 12th–The Eleventh Iowa received two months’ pay, I receiving $26.00. We commenced to cut the levee today, but shortly after we got started the order was countermanded.
12th. Capt. Nettleton called and gave me a line from home and told me about his visit. Read two or three good lectures in “Currents and Countercurrents.” Went down to Co. H in the evening. Visited with the boys.
Thursday March 12th 1863 A bright pleasant morning but followed by snow and wind, quite cold tonight. Capt Swan came up from the Army and called on me today. Maj E. P. Taft got a furlough to go home and was in one of the Govt offices this morning haveing his papers approved when he [...]
MARCH 12th.—To-day we have no army news. Mr. Richard Smith issued the first number of The Sentinel yesterday morning. Thus we have five daily morning papers, all on half sheets. The Sentinel has a biography of the President, and may aspire to be the “organ.” John Mitchel, the Irishman, who was sentenced to a [...]
March 12th, 1863.–More bad news to write in my diary. Sweet little Susie died before day this morning. She was so pretty. Except cousin Rich, she was the best looking one of the family. She loved him devotedly and ever since he was killed she seemed to be thinking of him all the time. When [...]
March 12, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The shrewd correspondent of the Savannah Republican, ‘P.W.A.’ writing from this city on the 10th instant, says: It is not probable that the enemy will abandon the Southern coast without making an attack upon Charleston of Savannah. Their expenditures of money have been too heavy, and their preparations too [...]
March 12, 1863, The New York Herald RUTHERFORD’S CREEK, FOUR MILES NORTH OF COLUMBIA, March 11, 1863. General Granger came up with the enemy at this place yesterday afternoon. The advance guard were skirmishing yesterday, and lost two killed and several wounded, but captured several rebels. One of them reports that Col. Coburn, with two [...]
March 12, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MERCURY.) RICHMOND, Friday, March 7. It was a relief to us to hear that the Indianola had not been blown up. One of our papers recommends that the parties connected with the disgraceful affair (if such it was) be branded with the letters T. M., and [...]
March 12, 1863, The New York Herald General Hooker had a long conference in Washington yesterday with the President, Gen. Halleck, Mr. Stanton and the Committee on the Conduct of the War, and returned to the Rappahannock last night. A reconnoitering party sent out a few days ago, consisting of a detachment of the First [...]
March 11th. At five-thirty A. M. got under way, and continued on up the river. At nine A. M. brought ship to anchor off the city of Baton Rouge, La. The crew have been employed to-day coaling ship.
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, [...]