8th. Spent the day in camp. Thede came over and we made a little sugar candy. Read some in “Currents and Countercurrents,” by O. W. Holmes. Wanted to read Motley, but Charlie had sent the book back home. Thede and I wished we could be at home two or three hours. A dark and cloudy [...]
MARCH 8th.— Judge Meredith’s opinion, that foreigners, Marylanders, and others, who have served in the army, have become domiciled, and are liable to conscription, has produced a prodigious commotion. Gen. Winder’s door is beset with crowds of eager seekers of passports to leave the Confederacy; and as these people are converting their Confederate money into [...]
March 8, 1863, The New York Herald Our New Orleans Correspondence. NEW ORLEANS, La., Feb. 27, 1863. In consequence of an announcement in the official journal that the steamer Empire Parish would leave the foot of Canal street at one o’clock on the 20th ult., with such paroled rebel prisoners as were desirous of being [...]
March 8, 1863, The New York Herald HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, March 7, 1863. The expedition under Colonel Phelps, to Northumberland County, Va., returned this afternoon, after an eminently successful trip. The force left Belle Plain last Tuesday, in steamers, and was composed of picked men from the Fourteenth New York State Militia, Twenty-second, [...]
March 8, 1863, The New York Herald The Mississippi Valley Grand Campaign. The opening of the Mississippi river is now the grand object which occupies the attention of both the Union and rebel armies. The former is determined to open the navigation of the river, while the latter, as evinced in the proclamation of Jeff. [...]
March 8, 1863, The New York Herald Our Mississippi River Correspondence. YOUNG’S POINT, LA., THREE MILES ABOVE VICKSBURG, Feb. 26, 1863. After the capture of the Queen of the West we had hoped that the Indianola would speedily succeed in retaking her. It seems we were doomed to disappointment, and to have the additional mortification [...]
March 8, 1863, The New York Herald The Army of the Potomac has been making a demonstration. An expedition, under Colonel Phelps, which left Belle Plain in steamers on Tuesday for Northumberland county, made a most successful thing of it, and returned to headquarters yesterday. The troops visited Heathsville, which they found deserted by the [...]
Camp Winder, March 8, 1863. To-day I went to our chapel to hear Dr. Hoge, who preached a very fine sermon, Genl. Jackson being one of the audience. We have preaching in the chapel twice on Sunday, and, I think, pretty much every night. It looks odd to see a church full of people, and [...]
Saturday, 7th–It is quite showery and things are growing fine. Farmers throughout here are putting into corn most all the land that is not flooded. There are few white men here and most of the able-bodied negro men are forming companies and regiments for the army of the North, to be under white officers.
Washington Saturday March 7th 1863. Another day has passed and no news to encourage any body. They have had a small fight in Tennessee where three or four of our Regiments were overpowered by superior numbers. All quiet on the Potomac. There is in fact a perfect Blockade of Mud and it is almost impossible [...]
Saturday, 7th. Finished my letter to Ella. Col. Abbey went to town and sent a barrel of flour to mother. Good. A Democratic mass meeting to consider the best way for democrats to protect their property. Finished “Mistress and Maid.”
MARCH 7th.—The President is sick, and has not been in the Executive Office for three days. Gen. Toombs, resigned, has published a farewell address to his brigade. He does not specify of what his grievance consists; but he says he cannot longer hold his commission with honor. The President must be aware of his perilous [...]
Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Jackson, Tenn., March 7, 1863. The rumors from Vicksburg in the Tribune of the 5th are enough to make one’s flesh creep, and more than sufficient to account for my little touch of the blues I do feel to-night as though some awful calamity had befallen our army somewhere. God grant [...]
March 7, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The Richmond Examiner gives us the following particulars of a brilliant success recently gained by our cavalry in the Valley of Virginia: A few days ago a detachment of Marylanders, from Gen. Jones’ command, had captured nine of the enemy’s pickets, with their horses and equipments, at Kearnstown, four [...]
March 7, 1863, The New York Herald Our news from Nashville reports a further renewal of the fight between our troops and the rebels under Van Dorn, at Springville, near Franklin, Tennessee, on Thursday. General Van Dorn is said to have eighteen thousand men under his command, and the Union force, being very inferior in [...]
March 7, 1863, The Charleston Mercury A volume entitled ‘West Point and Political Generals,’ soon to be issued by a Southern publishing house, gives a brief summary of the exploits of MORGAN, the great Kentucky Partisan. They border on the marvellous, yet they are strictly authentic. He began with a small body of horse, which [...]
March 7, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MERCURY.) RICHMOND, Tuesday, March 3. Everybody admits that the horizon is darker than at any previous stage of the war, yet everybody is cheerful and confident. Dictator LINCOLN, with his powers of purse and sword, has no terrors for a people who have endured and achieved [...]
March 7, 1863, The New York Herald NASHVILLE, March 6, 1863. There was fighting all day yesterday between the rebel General Van Dorn’s command and a Union force of three regiments of infantry, about five hundred cavalry, and one battery, at Springville, thirteen miles south of Franklin. Colonel Coburn’s three regiments of infantry were cut [...]
Friday, 6th–I was detailed to go on picket with Company D. Had quite a thunderstorm this evening.
Washington Friday March 6th 1863. No news today of any importance from the armies or from the southern coast. We are in a State of great anxiety just now. It seems so important that we should now hear of Victories and I cannot but think that our troops will be successful wherever they strike at [...]
6th. In the morning the colonel called the officers together and stated in tears that he should resign if the thing were not ferreted out. I was in Case’s tent. C. and H. burned their property. Officers feigned a search but found nothing. In the evening officers held a meeting and passed resolutions. Medary received [...]
March 6th, 1863.—It is hard to even think, because I want to see Grandpa so bad. We were going to him in the summer and now I will never see him again. Father says I will see him in that beautiful Heaven, which he loved to talk of but it seems so far away. Grandma [...]
MARCH 6th.—I have meditated on this day, as the anniversary of my birth, and the shortening lapse of time between me and eternity. I am now fifty-three years of age. Hitherto I have dismissed from my mind, if not with actual indifference, yet with far more unconcern than at present, the recurring birthdays which plunged [...]
March 6, 1863, The New York Herald Our Mississippi River Correspondence. NEAR VICKSBURG, Feb. 22, 1863. The daring of the Union ram fleet during the year which has passed, has furnished themes for the admiration of the country. What was accomplished at Memphis before the Union occupation of that city, is still fresh in the [...]
March 6, 1863, The New York Herald (From the Richmond Examiner, March 2.) The following Despatch has been received:– SAVANNAH, Feb. 28, 1863. The steamer Nashville in coming up the Ogeechee river last night grounded on the sand bar before Fort McAllister and was discovered by the Yankee fleet. A Yankee iron clad opened fire [...]