Wednesday, Clinton, April 8th, 1863. Our last adieux are said, and Linwood is left behind, “it may be for years, and it may be forever.” My last hours were spent lying on the sofa on the gallery, with Lydia at my feet, Helen Carter sitting on the floor at my side, while all the rest [...]

(Ohio River) 8th. Had a very pleasant morning ride up the smooth, glassy water in the sunshine. Reached Maysville at nine. The people received us with open arms. All seemed very hospitable. Waved handkerchiefs and flags and invited the boys to breakfast. Never were treated so well before. Took dinner at hotel with Thede and [...]

Wednesday, 8th–General Townsend, of General Halleck’s staff, from Washington, D. C., made a speech to the Sixth Division of the Seventeenth Army Corps today, on the question of arming the colored men. He urged loyal men to accept commissions as officers in colored regiments. General McArthur, commander of our division, spoke also, and the boys [...]

April 3—Prayer meeting every night. April 4—Fierce wind all day. Hard on soldiers. Dr. Grissom gets to camp. Hear from Rev. Mr. Sherwood. Snow all night. April 5—Snow all a. m. Sore throat. April 6—Visit G. T. Swain, Co. C., near camp, quite sick. April 7—Meet chaplains of this corps. Preach to them and many [...]

APRIL 8th.—We learn to-day that the enemy bombarded our forts at Charleston, yesterday, two hours and a half. But few of our men were injured, and the forts sustained no damage of consequence. On the other hand, several of the iron-clads and monitors of the enemy were badly crippled; one of the latter, supposed to [...]

April 8, 1863, The Charleston Mercury CHATTANOOGA, April 6. – MORGAN was attacked by the enemy at Liberty, on Friday, and driven back to Snow Hill, where he held his position, and the enemy retired. Our troops, under Colonel SMITH, were repulsed at Woodbury on Saturday, and fell back to within twelve miles of McMinnville, [...]

April 8, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser  Gen. Liddel’s command, stationed near Wartrace, Tenn., are having a good deal of sport in catching a large number of rabbits daily. An old friend of ours says that on last Friday the boys captured about four hundred of the “molly cottontails.” They manage the thing well. Two or [...]

April 8, 1863, Arkansas True Democrat (Little Rock) Some six or eight weeks ago, handbills and circulars were sent all over the State, notifying country dealers and merchants that the subscriber thereto was prepared to furnish some 50,000 pairs of cotton cards, calicoes, and other things, on terms that would enable them to supply families [...]

April 8, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MERCURY.) RICHMOND, Saturday, April 4. The cold March wind blowing this morning is fast drying the roads and paving the way to army operations, which the light April showers will hardly put a stop to. HOOKER’S army must be demoralized, if the half we hear from [...]

April 8, 1863, The New York Herald IMPORTANT NEWS. Three Thousand Armed Women Attack the Government and Private Stores. BALTIMORE, April 7, 1863. Col. Stewart, of the Second Indiana regiment, one of the fourteen United States officers just released by the rebels, and who has just arrived here, makes the following statement: – On Thursday [...]

April 8, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser  When we see a man advertising for a wife or a woman advertising for a husband, we conclude that it was either intended for a joke or that it is bona fide. If it is intended for wit, where is the wit? If there is anything peculiarly funny in [...]

April 8, 1863, The Charleston Mercury A correspondent of the Jackson Appeal, writing from Port Hudson, La., under date of March 15, gives the annexed account of the Yankee attack on that place: The long expected contest between the Yankee fleet took place before daylight this morning, the first shot being fired at ten minutes [...]

April 8, 1863, Charleston Mercury The Augusta Constitutionalist, of Saturday last, appears in a half sheet. The editor says: The destruction of the Bath Paper Mills, from which was derived our supplies of printing paper, may entail on us the necessity of suspending the issue of the Constitutionalist. At this time it seems impossible to [...]

April 8, 1863, The Charleston Mercury About two weeks since, a force of about four hundred men of the Seventh New Hampshire Volunteers, stationed at St. Augustine, Fla., were out in the woods near that place, either on a foraging expedition or making an attempt to capture the company of Capt. DICKERSON, of the Second [...]

April 8, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi)  A letter bearing the following direction reached the post office of our neighboring village of Clinton, where it was copied, and the letter bearing it again started for its proper destination in Louisiana:  Go wing thy flight where e’er thou may,  I’d have thee do so, without delay, [...]

April 8, 1863, Arkansas True Democrat (Little Rock) For the True Democrat. Mr. Editor:  Through the kindness of Dr. Headley, the head surgeon of Gen. McRae’s brigade, I had the pleasure a few days since of visiting the regimental hospitals of that brigade. For temporary encampments I regard these hospitals as models of the best [...]

April 8, 1863, The Charleston Mercury HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA AND FLORIDA, GENERAL ORDERS No. 58. CHARLESTON, S.C. April 5, 1863. I. FIELD AND COMPANY OFFICERS ARE SPECIALLY enjoined to instruct their men under all circumstances to fire with deliberation at the feet of the enemy; they will thus avoid over-shooting, and, besides, [...]

April 8, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi) The Richmond correspondent of the Knoxville Register says:  The evils incident to revolution are in this city developed in their worst aspect. Citizens of Richmond are not affected by them, but the crowds which congregate in the Capital, of both sexes, give abundant evidence of the rapid progress [...]

April 8, 1863, The Charleston Mercury At last, the long period of doubt and delay is at an end; and this goodly city, girdled with the fiery circle of its batteries, stands confronted with the most formidable Armada that the hands of man have ever put afloat. The first scene in the novel drama of [...]

April 8, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)  A correspondent of the Mobile Advertiser, writing from the camp of the Thirty-eighth Alabama Regiment, relates the following:  Some weeks ago, a young man came to camp and proposed to volunteer. He was accepted, there being nothing in his physical appearance to indicate the singular denouement which followed six [...]

April 8, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi) There is no country in the civilized world where quite the same devotion is paid to woman as in our own sunny domain. There is no land where woman, occupying in society her own appropriate place, deserves and receives a more unqualified homage, or exerts a more general [...]

April 8, 1863, The New York Herald There is nothing new from the Army of the Potomac. The snow has disappeared, but the roads are in a frightful condition. By an arrival from Hilton Head we learn that the town of Jacksonville, Florida, was burned by the Union forces under Colonel Rust, in return for [...]

April 8, 1863, Arkansas True Democrat (Little Rock) Warren, Texas, March 23d, 1863. Mr. Editor:  Having seen several pieces in your paper in regard to the war, our facilities for sustenance and defence, I take the liberty of requesting you to insert my opinion, if it is only the opinion of a native Texan girl. [...]

April 8, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser  We regret to learn that the Bath Paper Mill, situated a short distance from Augusta, Georgia, was destroyed by fire on Thursday last. This mill supplied a number of the most prominent papers of the country, and its loss at the present time is a public calamity.