10th. Renewed our march soon after sunrise. Got some biscuit for lunch. Drake and I rode together some again. Got into Sharpsburg a little after noon. We of the commissary put our horses in a shed and slept in a hayloft. Issued one day’s rations. Such a green Com., never saw. Ate supper at a [...]

Friday, 10th–William Mills, secretary to the president of the Sanitary Commission of Iowa, visited our regiment today. He is down here among the different Iowa regiments distributing the sanitary goods donated by the loyal people of the State. The health of the Eleventh Iowa is very good, and the boys are feeling fine. Our regiment [...]

News From Along the Line. April 10. The siege of Washington on the Pamlico river continues, and heavy firing is heard from there every day. We learn they have got Gen. Foster shut up there and he is in danger of being made prisoner. That may be, but I will bet ten to one he [...]

APRIL 10th.—We are not informed of a renewal of the attack on Charleston. It is said our shot penetrated the turret of the Keokuk, sunk. In New York they have been exulting over the capture of Charleston, and gold declined heavily. This report was circulated by some of the government officials, at Washington, for purposes [...]

April 10, 1863, The New York Herald From all the information in our possession we are warranted in stating that the attack on Charleston has fairly commenced, and it may be, ere this time, that the great rebel stronghold has been reduced. Fort Sumter is again the object of attack – this time the Union [...]

April 10, 1863, The Charleston Mercury HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF SO. CA., GA. AND FLA., CHARLESTON, S. C., April 10, 1863 (General Orders No. 55) The Commanding General is gratified to have to announce to the troops the following joint resolutions unanimously adopted by the Legislature of the State of South Carolina: ‘Resolved, That the General [...]

April 10, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The dress parade of the Charleston Battalion on Union Wharf, at half-past five o’clock, p.m., are daily witnessed by a large number of spectators. The parade ground is not as favorably located as that of the Battery, but the number of persons immediately interested makes up the aggregate. The [...]

April 10, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We deem our City and State fortunate in the Generals now in command for our defence, whatever may have been the causes which cast their services amongst us. Our readers are fully aware of the labors and services of General BEAUREGARD preparatory to the reduction of Fort Sumter. They [...]

April 10, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Since our last issue the enemy has made no movement of importance in this vicinity. On the Stono his operations seem to progress very slowly, as if he were awaiting the issue of the final contest between the iron fleet and the batteries of our harbor. The Monitors, six [...]

April 10, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois)  The Chicago Tribune says, “the latest private advices from our army at Vicksburg are all of the same tenor, and all amount to this: Have patience.” The patience of the people is well nigh exhausted. “Hope long deferred maketh the heart sick.” The people have been waiting on [...]

April 10, 1863, Southern Banner (Athens, Georgia) The Bath Paper Mill, situated on the S. Carolina Railroad, six miles from Augusta, was destroyed by fire, about 2 o’clock, P.M. on the 2d inst. The Augusta Chronicle says, the loss of this paper mill at this time, is a great public calamity. A large amount of [...]

April 10, 1863, The New York Herald Our Bayou Boeuf Correspondence. HEADQUARTERS, GEN. WEITZEL’S COMMAND, BAYOU BOEUF, La., March 30, 1863. Although the main body of this division of the Nineteenth army corps has fallen back to this point, still a strong force occupies Brashear City, seven miles in front, from which point the enemy’s [...]