April 6th. At four thirty A. M., weighed anchor and steamed down the river, arriving off Bayou Sara, which is about forty-eight miles below the mouth of Red River. Came to anchor and sent two boats on shore in charge of officers, the crews of which were armed, for the purpose of destroying some ten [...]
Monday, 6th. Got into Cincinnati at 8 A. M. Stopped a mile from the depot. Watered and fed horses. Then marched down town to the market. Dismounted and were given a very good dinner and breakfast. Election in the city. Crossed the river and passed through Covington to the barracks. Dod and I stayed at [...]
Monday, 6th–Four loads of sanitary goods from Iowa were landed today for the Eleventh Iowa. Colonel Hall arrived this morning from home and the boys were glad to see him. One year ago today he commanded the Eleventh Iowa at the battle of Shiloh. The boys are all in fine spirits. The Sixteenth Iowa received [...]
Board of Survey Office, Lagrange, Tenn., April 6, 1863. I was in Memphis a few days since. It is quite a lovely town and quite Northern-like in its general appearance. Many of the blocks would pass muster creditably in Chicago, though the numerous fires it has furnished for the edification of the “Vandal Yankees” have [...]
APRIL 6th.—It seems that it was a mistake about the enemy’s monitors approaching the forts in Charleston harbor; but the government has dispatches to the effect that important movements are going on, not very distant from Charleston, the precise nature of which is not yet permitted to transpire. Generals Johnston and Bragg write that Gen. [...]
April 6, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The long delayed hour seems at last to have arrived. The attack on our city, threatened for more than a year, is now imminent. Whatever careful preparation, unlimited resources, all the instruments and agents of modern warfare, undisguised hate and the bitterest feelings of revenge can suggest, have been [...]
April 6, 1863, The New York Herald Our Lexington Correspondence. LEXINGTON, Ky., April 2, 1863. In consequence of the recent serious raids which have been made in this quarter by the daring banditti, called rebel soldiers, General Gillmore applied to Gen. Burnside for permission to go to the […..], and the request was promptly granted. [...]
April 6, 1863, The New York Herald Most important news, if true – and it was fully believed yesterday by prominent officers of the government – has reached us from Fredericksburg, whither it arrived from rebel sources. The intelligence is that the bombardment of Charleston by our land and naval forces combined, commenced on Thursday, [...]
President Lincoln reviewing the Army of the Potomac on Monday, April 6, 1863; artist: Edwin Forbes. Library of Congress image. ___________ Lincoln Reviewing the Army—April 1863 products from Exit78 at zazzle.com
April 6, 1863, Richmond Examiner The Canal Basin Bridge , which fell some months since, during the passage of Yankee prisoners over it, has not yet been replaced, and we are yet to learn that any steps are being taken to rebuild it. The absence of the bridge is a great inconvenience to the public, [...]
April 6, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) We desire to purchase any quantity of clean linen and cotton rags, to be made up into paper, and we are willing to pay the highest market price in cash. They will also be received in payment of all dues to this office. Will our subscribers everywhere interest themselves [...]
April 6, 1863, Semi-Weekly News (San Antonio, Texas) Dr. Oakes has orders from General Magruder, to fit up a general hospital in Galveston, which will be able to accommodate 500 patients. The Galveston News calls the attention of all patriotic ladies to the fact, that this hospital has not one dollar of fund to [...]
April 6, 1863, Semi-Weekly News (San Antonio, Texas) The undersigned will purchase a number of Horses suitable for Artillery Service, they must be fifteen hands high and not over nine years old, for such, fair prices will be paid. Wm. Prescott,} Capt. A.Q.M. } P.A.C.S.} Dept. Qr. Mr. Office, San Antonio, Texas, April 3d.
April 6, 1863, Memphis Daily Appeal (Jackson, Mississippi) The United States steamer Honduras, arrived here yesterday, from the Rio Grande, bringing about two hundred and sixty Texas refugees. From Lieutenant-Colonel Stancel, we learn the following interesting particulars: The Honduras left New Orleans on the 2d inst., and arrived at the mouth of the Rio Grande [...]