March 25, 1863, Galveston Weekly News Like most of our contemporaries, we are compelled to advance our terms of subscription, not for the purpose of increasing profits, but to save ourselves from loss. Having now to pay for white paper just about fifteen times the price when our terms of subscription were established, our readers [...]
March 25, 1863, The New York Herald Our Expeditionary Correspondence. ON THE WAY, SEVENTY-FIVE MILES DOWN THE TALLAHATCHIE, March 10, 1863. The date I prefix to this communication gives the present locality of the Yazoo Pass expedition with as much exactness as I can command. We have reached a very fair stream for navigation by [...]
March 25, 1863, Memphis Daily Appeal (Jackson, Mississippi) Mrs. L. C. W. Brown: Dear Madam: Your letter, with one thousand dollars, contributed by the ladies of Natchez for the support of the Soldiers’ lunch house, was handed me this morning by Mr. Howe. Allow me, in behalf of the brave soldiers whose sufferings they nobly [...]
March 25, 1863, The New York Herald We have some important intelligence from the Yazoo expedition today. It comes by way of St. Louis, and is to the effect that the steamer Dilligent, with the Eighth Missouri, had succeeded in entering Yazoo rover above Haines’ Bluff. Her course was through Cypress Bayou, which debouches into [...]
March 24th. Everything continues quiet. This afternoon it cleared up, and the sun made its appearance once more, which made things in general assume a more lively appearance. Tonight we are expecting one or two boats down from the upper fleet. I think that if they succeed in passing by the batteries at Vicksburg they [...]
Tuesday, 24th–It rained all night and day, and our camp is almost covered with water. The report in camp is that we will go down the river in a day or two.
24th. In the morning did some errands. Played chess with Thede and Melissa. Oysters for supper. Thede goes back tonight. I could see he dreads it–so do we. In the evening went to N. P. (North Professor street–Fannie Andrews’ home). Had such a good visit. Called at N. P. 2 a few minutes. (Fannie Henderson’s [...]
Gen. Foster Arrives. March 24. Gen. Foster arrived this morning and went to work laying out a fort and other defences which we are to build. That job done, he took companies F, I and K of the 25th and H of the 27th Massachusetts with a party of marines, and a boat howitzer (on [...]
MARCH 24th.—Judge Lyons has granted an injunction, arresting the impressment of flour by the Secretary of War, and Congress is debating a bill which, if passed, will be a marked rebuke to the government. Notwithstanding the wishes of the Secretary of War, the President, and Gen. Rains, Lt.-Col. Lay is still exempting Marylanders, and even [...]
March 24, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois) We saw a lady–a lady in every sense of the term–at the market yesterday morning, with a “Copperhead” pin for a shawl fastening. We understand it was not worn merely as a matter of convenience, but as a badge to show she was for the Union and the [...]
March 24, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The object of this war, on the part of the Confederate States, is the preservation of independence against unjust and vindictive assailants. It is the business of our Government and Generals to wage the war in that manner which will be most effective to the end desired. Throughout the [...]
March 24, 1863, The New York Herald The news from the Southwest today is important. It is stated that on the 14th instant Admiral Farragut came into action with his fleet at Port Hudson, and after a brisk engagement with the batteries, succeeded in passing the fort with all his fleet, consisting of eight vessels, [...]
March 26, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) The Southern Recorder says: “Our last bill for printing paper, such as we now use for the Recorder, was at the rate of $14 per ream. Of the propriety of raising the price of subscription our readers can judge, when we state that paper of the same [...]
March 24, 1863, Daily Southern Crisis (Jackson, Mississippi) We learn from the Atlanta Intelligencer that, one day last week, a party of ladies some dozen in number, the wives and daughters of soldiers in the field, were seen parading the streets of that city who represented themselves and their families to have been deprived of [...]
March 23, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas) Editor Telegraph:-As I believe that there are many in the “Lone Star State” who like to hear from the brigade, I will occupy a short space in your columns with the account of what I saw in Richmond. Among the first attractions in which Texas has an interest, [...]
March.—Nothing special occurred up to the 23d of March. On the 16th, paid $15.00 for hat; on 23d, regiment went down to Warrenton on picket, but Brother I. L. being sick, I was left to wait on him. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)
March 23, 1863, Charleston Mercury Fifteen or twenty women, the leader of whom carried a revolver, in Atlanta, on Wednesday, went around to a number of grocery stores, seizing bacon, meal, and vegetables, paying such prices as they thought proper. They were dispersed by the police. The Confederacy says the women were only [...]
Monday, 23d–It rained nearly all day and our new camp has become very muddy. Today I read the two books of Chronicles in the Bible, sixty-five chapters in all. Our picket duty here is very light at present.
23rd. Awakened at 3:30 A. M. Off at 4 A. M. Reached Oberlin at 9:15. So good to see the dear friends. Minnie and Ellie came down. At 11 started for Elyria with Delos. Very muddy. Took dinner with Floy. Aunt Mary looking well, pretty little baby. At 8:15 saw Fannie, the dear girl, good [...]
MARCH 23d.—The snow has nearly disappeared, and the roads are very bad. No food is brought to the market, and such as may be found in the city is held at famine prices. I saw a letter to-day from Bishop Lay, in Arkansas. He says affairs in that State wear a dark and gloomy aspect. [...]
March 23, 1863, The New York Herald Although no positive information regarding the movements of the army and naval forces, either on the Atlantic coast or the Mississippi, has been received by the government for some days past – at which points some great enterprises were looked for – still, the military authorities at Washington [...]
March 23, 1863, The Charleston Mercury GOOD NEWS FROM THE YAZOO PASS EXPEDITION – THE YANKEE FLEET RETREATING. MOBILE, March 21. – The Advertiser has the following despatch, which it gives as official: FORT PEMBERTON, YAZOO RIVER, March 20. LORING has whipped the enemy back from this point, and they are now in full retreat [...]
March 23, 1863, The Charleston Mercury VICKSBURG, March 16. It must be a very provoking dilemma for the Yankee General Grant to be placed in a position where he cannot advance, and dare not turn back. In order to accomplish the former, he has been engaged for two months in digging and cleaning up the [...]
March 23, 1863, The New York Herald The late Congress, in the estimation of the great body of the people of the loyal States, atoned for numerous blunders and covered a multitude of sins in its broad, comprehensive measures for a vigorous and overwhelming prosecution of the war. The men, money, means and resources of [...]
March 23, 1863, The Charleston Mercury On Tuesday last the Yankees, with from 1000 to 1200 men, advanced some two or three miles from Jacksonville. The object was to burn down some buildings behind which the Confederates were stationed. Major BREVARD’S battalion attacked them, and the fight lasted about an hour, during which we had [...]