April 21st. Very rainy weather. Everything dark and cloudy overhead, and the faces of the ship’s company bearing anything but a smile upon them. A heavy pressure seems to be weighing down their hearts—something more than common must be the cause of this depression of spirits. A sailor does not have the blues often, and [...]
21st. Took my horse out to graze in the morning. A good long letter from Fannie. Saw Delos’ journal. Ordered out on a reconnoissance. Went to the river. Major P. and several of us went down the bank about two miles. Pickets visible. Quite romantic, a narrow path between deep river and high perpendicular bluffs. [...]
Tuesday, 21st–We struck our tents and at 3 o’clock in a heavy rain embarked on board the “Platte Valley.” We had all the supplies loaded by dark and during the night left for Milliken’s Bend to join the other brigades. The boys all feel very fine.
APRIL 21st.—Gen. Longstreet lost, it is said, two 32-pounder guns yesterday, with which he was firing on the enemy’s gun-boats. A force was landed and captured the battery. Gen. Lee writes that his men have each, daily, but a quarter pound of meat and 16 ounces of flour. They have, besides, 1 pound of rice [...]
April 21, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) I have 400 bushels of corn that I will sell to poor soldiers’ families of Spalding county for one dollar per bushel; also, 2,000 lbs. of meat, at 40c per pound. R. H. Tooley. Griffin, Ga., March 28, 1863. The above notice was posted by Mr. Tooley, a [...]
April 21, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi) Editor Mississippian.–What is our duty toward the poor and dependent families of the poor men of our country in the army? Let every man who reads this question, propound it to himself and to his neighbors.–Let all seriously and carefully reflect upon it and then do what [...]
April 21, 1863, The New York Herald There is nothing new from General Hooker’s army. Some general orders have been issued relative to the disposition of regiments whose term of enlistment is about to expire. Our troops at Suffolk have had a brisk time of it of late. The enemy have been pressing them closely, [...]
April 21, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) A letter from Raleigh, N. C., contains the following paragraph. It needs no explanation: Some of our soldiers who have wives and children at home, have married again among the Virginia girls. The sweet, lovely damsels of the Valley and Fredericksburg little think, as they take these gay [...]
April 21, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) From the Augusta Constitutionalist of 11th. It is an old saying that “one might as well be dead as to be out of the fashion,” and so a small portion of Richmond county women must have thought yesterday, as they followed the fashion of female mobocracy, which was [...]
April 21, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) The Lynchburg, Va., Republican, says: A fine fat sheep raised by Wm. Hix, Esq., on his farm in Amherst, was sold to one of the butchers in the city, on Saturday, to be killed for mutton, at the handsome price of $130. A year ago and the same [...]
April 21, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) Whiskey sells in Little Rock at two dollars and fifty cents a drink, and the purchaser is not allowed to pour it out, or gauge his own, so says the True Democrat.
April 21, 1863, Natchez Daily Courier Hospital Stores, for the Jackson (Miss.) Hospital, where we are informed from the best authority in the world, that our brave soldiers are perishing daily for articles of nourishment. You that have these articles of luxury at home, cannot find a better opportunity to appropriate them. We will gladly [...]
April 21, 1863, The New York Herald Our Fortress Monroe Correspondence. FORTRESS MONROE, April 19, 1863. For upwards of one week a large rebel force has beleaguered Suffolk, with a view of reducing this stronghold, and if possible get possession of the stores and ammunition on hand there; but thus far the enemy has had [...]