April 19th. This morning the ram Switzerland and gunboat Albatross, got under way and entered the mouth of Red River, with the intention of proceeding a short distance up same, to find the enemy if possible. In the afternoon however, they returned from their reconnoissance, having seen nothing of him. It seems rather singular after [...]
19th. Train stopped back twelve miles. No grain or feed for our poor horses. Ordered to march at 11. Train arrived at noon. Got rations and started. Took a good bath. All the forces, 1st Ky., 2nd Ohio and 45th Ohio moved to the Cumberland. Pickets could be distinctly seen across the river. Rode with [...]
Sunday, April 19th. Friday morning we arose and prepared to resume our journey for Bonfouca, twenty-three miles away. The man walked in very unceremoniously to get corn from the armoir as we got up, throwing open the windows and performing sundry little offices usually reserved for femmes-de-chambre; but with that exception everything went on very [...]
Sunday, 19th–Warm and pleasant today, but we had quite a storm last night. We had company inspection at 3 o’clock and dress parade at 5 o’clock. The boys all feel quite lively; no one is reporting to the doctor.
Evacuation. April 19. The steamer Thomas Collyer arrived last night, bringing dispatches of some kind, but just what we were unable to find out. This morning, however, the mystery was cleared up. The 12th New York battery was on the wharf, the 40th Massachusetts and the other detached companies were breaking camp, preparatory to going [...]
APRIL 19th, SUNDAY.—It is now said Longstreet captured two transports, instead of gun-boats, and 600 prisoners. Mr. Benjamin reports that the enemy’s gun-boats, which passed Vicksburg, have recaptured the Queen of the West! It must be so, since he says so. Mr. Baldwin, the other day, in Congress, asserted a fact, on his own knowledge, [...]
April 19, 1863, <emMobile Register And Advertiser Shelbyville, Tenn., April 11, 1863. . . . I started out by saying that all is quiet here as yet. I should have stated quiet, according to the meaning of the word in this region. That is to say, that whilst our infantry camps continue to be scenes [...]
April 19, 1863, Mobile Register And Advertiser We learn that a magnificent laurel wreath, bound with palmetto, and having an inscription fastened by ribbons of Confederate colors, was sent last week anonymously to the garrison of Fort Sumter. The writing was as follows: “For Colonel Alfred Rhett and his gallant command, Fort Sumter, April 17, [...]
April 19, 1863, Mobile Register And Advertiser (For the Advertiser and Register.) The surpassing patriotism, and unfaltering faith in right, of the women of America during the revolution of 1776, has given some of their purest and noblest themes to song and story for the last three quarters of a century. Romancers and troubadours, poets [...]
April 19, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi) No one who raised peanuts last year will deny that they return more profit for less labor than any other crop that can be produced. Let there be plenty of them next year. Almost every person is fond of them, and their sale is a sure thing. We [...]