April 1st. This morning at five o’clock, William Jones, seaman, who was wounded during the action at Grand Gulf last night, departed this life. At six A. M. weighed and started on down the river; at eleven-fifteen A. M. passed Natchez; at two-thirty P. M. came in sight of Ellis’s Cliffs, beat to general quarters; [...]
April 1st.—Had fine sport to-day, gigging fish. Whole farms are submerged around Warrenton, three to four feet deep; before they were flooded, they had grown up very thickly in weeds, which now reached above the water. We made two rafts, fastened our bayonets to the large end of long canes. Pushing the rafts through the [...]
1st. After breakfast and morning work, issued rations. Then cleaned up nicely. Practiced my horse some at jumping. Is learning nicely. Read some in Gail Hamilton and “Les Miserables.” In the evening attended class at Co. H and wrote to Fred Allen.
Wednesday, 1st–It continues warm and pleasant. All is quiet. I went up town to the division quartermaster to buy provisions for the officers, the captain giving me the money with the order to purchase ten days’ provisions. When I returned the captain noticed among the items of the bill “20 lbs. codfish,” and exclaimed, “Why, [...]
April 1st.—”All quiet on the Rappahannock to-night,” and we are almost as still as in days gone by. The girls got up a little merriment this morning by their “April fools.” The remainder of the day passed in our usual way.
APRIL 1st.—It is said we have taken Washington, a village in North Carolina. And it is represented that large supplies of meat, etc. can be taken from thence and the adjacent counties. Every day we look for important intelligence from Charleston, and from the West. Mr. Seddon, the Secretary of War, has receded from his [...]
April 1, 1863, Austin State Gazette Mr. Editor–Permit me to inquire of you why it is that the editor of the Houston Telegraph is so tardy in acknowledging the receipt of money forwarded by the ladies of Austin for the benefit of the soldiers? Why is it that when he does condescend to do so, [...]
April 9, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) One grain of corn in the earth is as a bullet in the heart of a Yankee soldier; and a ridge of potatoes is worth any mile of breastwork from Vicksburg to the Rappahannock.
April 1, 1863, Galveston Weekly News Galveston, March 28, 1863. Eds. News.–Yesterday Evening the train did not arrive from Houston until 8 o’clock. The freight was so great that the engine was incapable of taking it beyond Virginia Point, where eleven cars out of thirty were switched off. After taking the balance on the bridge [...]
April 1, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser The Field and Fireside in reply to a query gives the following list: There are several mills in Virginia; in North Carolina there is a mill at Fayetteville, Raleigh, Shelby, Salem and Lincolnton. In South Carolina there are two at Greenville, controlled, we believe, by the same company, and [...]
April 1, 1863, The New York Herald Our Hilton head Correspondence. HILTON HEAD, S.C., March 27, 1863. I wrote you a day or two since of the alarming destitution existing in city of Savannah. Since then we have received into our lines several deserters from the rebel defences at Canston’s Bluff and Thunderbolt, who more [...]
April 1, 1863, The New York Herald From all the information which reaches our lines at Suffolk and Yorktown it appears evident that the enemy are about evacuating Richmond. The large guns and machinery are being conveyed to Chattanooga, as though the hazard of the die was to be accepted at that point. A successful [...]
April 1, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser The Richmond Enquirer has a list of the newspapers now published in Virginia, and they number only 17, of which 10 are in Richmond and only 7 in all the rest of the State, viz: 1 at Petersburg, 3 at Lynchburg, 1 at Staunton, 1 at Harrisonburg, 1 at [...]
April 1, 1863, The Charleston Mercury It has been known for some time that General FINEGAN was making arrangements to attack the Yankee vandals at Jacksonville, and we have for several days past been expecting an account of a fight in that neighborhood. Gen. FINEGAN had just made his arrangements to clear out that den [...]
April 1, 1863, Galveston Weekly News We notice that many Galvestonians in this city are anxiously awaiting the removal of the military restrictions which still prevent their return to their homes. It is said these restrictions will soon be removed. They are now subjected to heavy expenses and great inconveniences, and most of them are [...]
April 1, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The white or buff facing of the Confederate uniform is so easily soiled and so difficult to clean, it is fast going out of use. In defiance of the regulations, our officers are having their coats made plain without any facings. In the English army many regiments have white [...]