3rd. Rumor about camp that we will leave Monday. We are ready. Arms have come and good ones, too, I guess. Received and answered letters from home and good Fannie. Did me good. No school in the evening so stayed at home and wrote. Snowed in the morning. Pleasant afternoon.
Friday, 3d–The Eleventh Iowa signed the pay rolls for four months’ pay. Boats loaded with troops are passing down the river every hour of the day. Our entire division is again drilling four hours a day. We have a fine drill ground.
Good-Friday.—The Bishop preached for us to-day most delightfully from the text: “Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” In the afternoon Mrs. S. had the inexpressible pleasure of welcoming her son, Mr. A. S., from the Western Army. He thinks that Vicksburg and Port Hudson are both impregnable. God grant that it may be so!
APRIL 3d.—Gen. D. H. Hill writes from North Carolina that the business of conscription is miserably mismanaged in that State. The whole business, it seems, has resolved itself into a machine for making money and putting pets in office. No account of yesterday’s riot appeared in the papers to-day, for obvious reasons. The mob visited [...]
April 3, 1863, American Citizen (Canton, Mississippi) The Columbus (Miss.) Republic, in commenting on the rascalities perpetrated by the speculators, and the frauds participated in by the railroad men, gives the following: A little incident came to our knowledge of a certain party who had purchased a large amount of wool and a trifle over [...]
April 3, 1863, The New York Herald The official despatches from General Gillmore relative to the battle near Somerset, Kentucky, on the 30th ult., have been forwarded by General Burnside to the War Department. The action lasted five hours. The rebels were driven from their first position, which was defended by six cannon, and the [...]
April 3, 1863, The New York Herald All the evidences that crowd upon us from all quarters clearly indicate that we are about to enter upon the most important stage of the struggle in which the energies and hopes of the nation are engaged. No one who has watched the preparations on the Union side [...]
April 3, 1863, The New York Herald Our New Orleans Correspondence. NEW ORLEANS, March 25, 1863. The destruction of the steamship Bio Bio on Sunday morning last, of which you have had a partial account, was in all respects complete. She burned until two P.M., then filled and sank in very deep water, with all [...]