Monday, April 13th. Having nothing to do, I may as well go on with the history of our wanderings. When the cars were moving off with the handsome Mr. Howard, mother turned to a gentleman who seemed to own the place, and asked to be shown the hotel. He went out, and presently returning with [...]

13th. Ordered to remain here at present. Prospect of staying in “Sturges’s” division in east Ky. Don’t like him on account of Mo. notoriety. After breakfast cleaned up my revolvers and loaded them. After noon, wrote home and went down town. Pitched quoits over at Co. H. Charlie came over and we reviewed old letters [...]

Monday, 13th–Our nice weather was broken today by an all day rain. A large number of transports loaded with troops went down the river; the Twenty-fourth Iowa was on board. I went down to the sutler in the Fifteenth Iowa camp and bought a bushel of potatoes, paying $2.50.

APRIL 13th.—The Federal monitors, gun-boats, and transports no more menace the City of Charleston! The fleet has sailed away, several of the iron-clads towed out of the harbor being badly damaged. But before leaving that part of the coast, the Yankees succeeded in intercepting and sinking the merchant steamer Leopard, having 40,000 pairs of shoes, [...]

April 13, 1863, Memphis Daily Appeal (Jackson, Mississippi) From the Richmond Examiner.  The reader will find in the report of evidence in the police court, the true account of a so-called riot in the streets of Richmond. A handful of prostitutes, professional thieves, Irish and Yankee hags, gallows birds from all lands but our own, [...]

April 13, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)  The editor of the Lake City Columbian paid a visit to Jacksonville, and gives the following account of the destruction of that town by the Abolitionists:  Probably about one-third of the town was destroyed by the fires set by the enemy. A heavy rain and the efforts of the [...]

April 13, 1863, The Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) A terrible tornado passed over Bayou Teche, La., on the 29th ult. It swept over a tract only two hundred yards in breadth. The residence of Mr. Honore Dejean was lifted up and carried some distance, killing nearly all in it, including Mr. Dejean, Mrs. Dejean, Emile [...]

April 13, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)  On Thursday and Friday last, feeble outbreaks of females armed with pistols and bowie knives, headed by a few vagabonds, were made in Augusta, Milledgeville and Columbus, in this State, for the purpose of helping themselves to merchandize at what they considered fair prices–all of which were promptly suppressed [...]

April 13, 1863, The Charleston Mercury THE MORRIS ISLAND BATTERIES that participated in the recent engagement with the iron-clad fleet were Battery Wagner and the Cumming’s Point Battery. They were ordered not to open fire until the last of the attacking fleet had come within range, and hence it chanced that their first fire was [...]

April 13, 1863, The New York Herald UNITED STATES TRANSPORT GEORGE PEABODY, AT SEA, April 10, 1863. We arrived at Port Royal on the morning of the 9th, and found, to our great satisfaction, that the movement towards the capture of Charleston began on the afternoon of the 7th instant by the iron-clads, which went [...]

April 13, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The Confederate steamer Stonewall Jackson, Captain BLACK, formerly the British steamer Leopard, left Nassau on Wednesday last, with a cargo consisting of several pieces of field artillery, 200 bbls. saltpetre, 40,000 army shoes, and a large assortment of goods bound to this port. On Saturday night, about 11 o’clock, [...]

April 13, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Proudly this thirteenth day of April, the second anniversary of the surrender of Fort Sumter, dawns upon the city of Charleston. The boasted iron-fleet, which was in three hours to have reduced our defences and pulverised the walls of Fort Sumter, battered and discomfited by our skilled artillerists, after [...]

April 13, 1863, The New York Herald The arrival of the steamer George Peabody from New Orleans, Hilton Head and Charleston puts in possession of the details of the attack on the latter place, from which the Peabody sailed on the 9th, two days after the fight commenced. Our Monitors stood fire splendidly. The Keokuk, [...]

April 12th. Lying off mouth of Red River; at ten A. M. inspected ship and crew, and half an hour afterwards, performed Divine service on quarter-deck. Nothing more worthy of note occurred during the remainder of these twenty-four hours, except that at 10 o’clock P. M. a sudden alarm was given, caused by a lookout [...]

Sunday, 12th.—Flag of truce sent down river by Federals; don’t know what for. Last night about 11 o’clock gun-boats passed the batteries; very heavy cannonading; a house was set on fire opposite Vicksburg, so that every gunboat could be plainly seen. It was a grand and awful sight to see those great black monsters rushing [...]

Madisonville, Sunday, April 12th, 1863. We arrived here about five last evening, and, strange to say, the journey, fatiguing as it was, has not altogether disabled me. But I must go back to Clinton to account for this new change. It would never do to take more than a hundred miles at a single jump [...]

12th. After breakfast, Col. (Abbey) and I got a team and rode horseback to town for rations–got 3 days’ rations. These troops from the Potomac never received any company savings. Marched at noon after giving rations. Ordered to Stanford, 50 miles south of Lexington. Reached Winchester about dark. Got some eggs and biscuit. A darkey [...]

Sunday, 12th–Eight gunboats went down the river today. The boys feel quite lively and are anxious to get into action again. We had company inspection in the morning and regimental inspection in the afternoon, with dress parade at 5 o’clock. Some of the men of our regiment were caught in a trap today. They went [...]

Sunday Night, April 12th—Mr. –– administered the Sacrament here to-day, the first time it was ever administered by Episcopalians in Ashland. There were fifty communicants, the large majority of them refugees. Our society here has been greatly improved by the refugees from Fredericksburg. The hotel is full. The G’s have rented the last vacant cottage, [...]

APRIL 12th.—Gen. Van Dorn, it is reported, has captured or destroyed another gun-boat in the West. Night before last another riot was looked for in this city by the mayor, and two battalions of Gen. Elzey’s troops were ordered into the city. If the President could only see the necessity of placing this city under [...]

April 12, 1863, Mobile Register And Advertiser Grand Gulf, Miss.,. March 17th, 1863. Editors Register and Advertiser:  In a late number of your paper I find, in a communication from your correspondent “N’Importe,” an article in which special mention is made of the meritorious and self-sacrificing labors of the “Florence Nightingale of the South,” Miss [...]

April 12, 1863, Southern Confederacy (Atlanta, Georgia)  The Lynchburg Republican says, on the authority of a letter from North Carolina, that when a person applies for chewing tobacco, at some of the stores in that State, the answer is “No, but I’ve got the best chewing rosum (rosin) you ever seed.” The soldiers down there [...]

Camp Winder, April 12, 1863. Your letter of April 7th came to hand yesterday, bringing the welcome intelligence of all well at home. I will spend part of this quiet Sabbath in writing to you in answer to it. It is a very pleasant and warm April day, –so pleasant that our log church has [...]

April 11th. Everything quiet to-day. During the afternoon, the Albatross (our chicken, as the boys now call her) returned from a reconnoitering expedition up to Fort Adams, for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the rebels were fortifying that place. I understand she ascertained that they were not, although contrabands coming on board of [...]