April 24th. Commences with pleasant, warm weather. This afternoon, signalizing to vessels of lower fleet. Received a mail from sloop-of-war Richmond during the day, across the point of land, which separated us from vessels of our fleet below, and which gladdened the hearts of many, or of all those who were so fortunate as to [...]
24th. After breakfast had a visit with Henry Drake. Examination for commissions. Henry went in. None in before allowed. A very pleasant day. About noon rations came. Issued in the P. M. A little slave child buried. Exercises by the chaplain. Serious thoughts. An immortal soul gone out of a poor slave. Wrote to Will [...]
Friday, 24th–We are now in camp twenty miles above Vicksburg. Received orders to clean up our camp ground and to have company drill forenoon and afternoon. A large detail was put to work and when the camp was put in order we had our regular drills, one hour each time. A large fleet of troops [...]
All Quiet on the Roanoke. April 24. The noise of the battle is over and we are no longer harassed by war’s dread alarms, but can now sit down, eat our fresh shad and herring and drink our peach and honey in peace and quiet. A Broker’s Office. Our provost marshal, Major Bartholomew of the [...]
Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Lagrange, Tenn., April 24, ’63. We have just returned from the hardest and yet by far the most pleasant scout in which I have up to this time participated. We started from here one week ago to-day, Friday, and my birthday (how old I am getting) on the cars. We were [...]
APRIL 24th.—We lost five fine guns and over a hundred men on the Nansemond; and we learn that more of the enemy’s gun-boats and transports have passed Vicksburg! These are untoward tidings. Gens. Pemberton and French are severely criticised. We had a tragedy in the street to-day,, near the President’s office. It appears that Mr. [...]
April 24, 1863, The Charleston Mercury FROM NEW ORLEANS. JACKSON, MISS., April 21. – The New Orleans Era thus sums up the results of battle of Grand Lake: ”One thousand rebels captured, the rams Queen of the West and Diana, the transport Cornie, with three rebel gunboats and three other transports either captured or destroyed.’ [...]
April 24, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The information we have through letters and persons of observation, from Abbeville, Edgefield, and Barnwell Districts, give very encouraging prospects for the growing wheat, and the stand of much corn is good for the season. A letter from Abbeville District, dated the 21st instant, says: ‘I trust there will [...]
April 24, 1863, The New York Herald The Richmond papers of Wednesday, in their despatches from Port Hudson, confirm the news, already announced in these columns, of the attack upon the Queen of the West at Grand Lake by our gunboats, and the capture of her officers and crew. The Queen, it appears, got aground [...]
April 24, 1863, Natchez Daily Courier The Montgomery Mail says: After diligent enquiry we are able to present the following list of Paper Mills now in operation within the limits of the Southern Confederacy: Alabama 1.–At Spring Hill, in Mobile county. Georgia 3.–At Columbus, Marietta and Athens. South Carolina 5.–One at [...]
April 24, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi) The Greensboro (Miss.) Motive, says we can scarcely pass a house when traveling but that we hear the hum of a wheel and the noise of a loom–worked by some fair hand, which is busily engaged in making clothes for some dear ones in the army. Go [...]
April 24, 1863, The New York Herald We perceive by the letters of our correspondents in Louisiana that Adjutant General Thomas has recently arrived out West, ostensibly to look after the welfare of the army, but really to undertake the serious business of organizing negro regiments and brigades of the federal service. As an initiatory [...]