April 15th. This morning, at six o’clock, hove up anchor, and steamed down the river; at ten o’clock, brought ship to anchor five miles above Port Hudson, for the purpose of communicating from masthead, by army signals, with vessels of lower fleet; signalizing from masthead, during the day, with U. S. sloop-of-war Richmond. At six [...]
April. Having been an inmate in the hospital for three months, at my own request, I was allowed to join my company, located at Fort Marshall, east end of Baltimore. Reported to Lieutenant Merwin, commanding company. He would not allow me to go on duty. Wished me to remain at Regimental Hospital for a while [...]
15th. Rainy during the night and drizzling in the morning. Went on, leaving the teams. Drew ammunition. Rode along some with A. B. then with Chester. Passed through Nicholasville and Lancaster. Crossed the Kentucky River. Mountains for several miles. Grand scenery. Reminded me of the Alleghanies. Reached Stanford, 45 miles, about 10 P. M. Went [...]
April 15, 1863, The New York Herald The extraordinary combat maintained last week by eight small iron-clads, carrying sixteen guns, with the innumerable batteries and powerful forts by which the entrance to Charleston harbor is defended, is one of the most remarkable events of the great rebellion, prolific as it has been in prodigies of [...]
Wednesday, 15th–General Quimby’s Division passed on down the river today, and another large fleet of boats loaded with troops passed us for Vicksburg. It is thought that Vicksburg will soon be attacked. Things seem quite lively at present.
15th.—Spent yesterday in the hospital. I am particularly interested in two very ill men. One is a youth of seventeen years, who has been seventeen months in service. Poor boy! he is now sinking with consumption, and has lately been brought to our hospital from another. His case elicits great sympathy and kindness. His name [...]
APRIL 15th.—There is a dispatch, unofficial, from the West, contradicting the news of the defeat of Van Dorn. On the Cumberland River, another dispatch says, we have met with new successes, capturing or destroying several more gun-boats. And Wheeler has certainly captured a railroad train in the rear of the enemy, containing a large sum [...]
April 15, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) A few days since it was a problem whether the Republican would continue its regular visits to its large list of subscribers or not. The destruction of the paper mill from which we drew our supplies, rendered the prospect gloomy indeed. We are gratified, however, to be able to [...]
April 15, 1863, Dallas Herald A letter from Fort Mason, dated March 17th, says a party of 16 Indians came to a house just above here, where they found one man and his wife. They had a white flag, and asked for something to eat. While they were eating the man and woman tried to [...]
April 15, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser The Vicksburg Whig says that a female spy was caught a few days ago at Enterprise, on the Mobile & Ohio Railroad. We learn that passes are now demanded of all travelling females.
April 15, 1863, Southern Watchman (Athens, Georgia) Since our last issue, the paper on which the Watchman is printed advanced three dollars per ream! Our readers must see that we cannot live at this rate. We shall be compelled to advance too or stop entirely. It is doubtful whether we can procure paper of the [...]
April 15, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) We learn from the Raleigh Progress that a number of women, most of them very abandoned, collected at Greensboro’ the early part of this week and intended to make a mob demonstration similar to that at Richmond and other places, but by the promptness of the authorities, the contemplated [...]
April 15, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser To His Excellency, John Gill Shorter, Governor of the State of Alabama: We, the undersigned, having been appointed a Committee by the officers of the 12th Alabama Regiment, to request that the old colors of the Regiment be placed among the archives of the State, herewith [...]
April 15, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) Different sounds will travel with different velocity–a call to dinner will run over a ten acre lot in a moment and a half, while a summons to work takes from five to ten minutes.
April 15, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi) Jackson–Its Public Streets–The Negroes, Bond and Free–Nuisances–a Suggestion. To Editor Mississippian: Jackson, like all other cities, has its public and private evils, that require the waters of purification, the hand of correction, and the pruning hook of reformation. While there are portions of this, the Metropolis of our [...]
April 15, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) Among other incidents of the battle of Murfreesboro’, we heard of one the other day, in which a soldier observed a rabbit loping across the field under a heavy fire. “Run, cottontail,” he said, “If I hadn’t got a reputation to sustain, I’d travel too!”
April 15, 1863, The New York Herald The attempt to take Charleston is for the time abandoned. The iron-clad fleet of Admiral Du Pont and the army of General Hunter have been withdrawn to Port Royal. The experiment proved too hazardous. The batteries of the enemy at Sumter, Moultrie and Cummings’ Point, and the obstructions [...]
April 15, 1863, The Charleston Mercury All was quiet in the direction of the Bar yesterday. The enemy is known to be in considerable force on Seabrook’s and Kiawah Islands. His force on Coles’ Island is estimated at about 3000 men. Eight vessels, half of the number being gunboats, are anchored near by in the [...]
April 15, 1863, Arkansas True Democrat (Little Rock) A gentleman, for whom we can vouch, native and to the manor born here, relates to us an instance of Yankee deviltry that we regret saying is not without its parallel in this war. Very recently a foraging party of the enemy, escorted by a command of [...]
April 15, 1863, The Charleston Mercury As the grand attack on Charleston seems, for the present, to have fizzled out in the repulse of the iron-plated fleet, and since the reduction of Vicksburg appears to be now abandoned by the withdrawing enemy, we look to Tennessee for the next scene in the drama of the [...]
April 15, 1863, Charleston Mercury That noble charity, the Free Market of Charleston, is, we regret to learn, badly in need of support. Nearly eight hundred families of soldiers now in the service are dependent upon this beneficent institution for sustenance. A heavy outlay is required to meet the wants of so many worthy and [...]
April 15, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser From the Richmond Whig. In deference to the weak suggestion of authorities who are scarcely less afraid to acknowledge a disagreeable truth than the despotism at Washington, the papers of this city forbore to make mention of the riot which occurred on Thursday morning last. When Fort Donelson fell, [...]
April 15, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser We transfer to our columns, from the Richmond Examiner, an article commenting in terms of merited severity on the recent demonstrations which have been made in Richmond, Salisbury, and Atlanta, and believe with it that exhibitions of the sort witnessed in those cities should be put down in such [...]
April 15, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser One of the greatest difficulties with which publishers have had to contend during the present war is that of procuring an adequate supply of paper. There are several mills in the South, but their capacity has not been equal to the demand made upon them, and some newspapers have [...]
April 15, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas) A large auction sale of negroes took place at Col. Sydnor’s auction store yesterday, consisting of sixty, mostly field negroes, men, women and children. They were sold in lots or families, and brought $105,000, or about $1750 each. From a casual glance at the catalogue, we should judge [...]