April 8, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser Gen. Liddel’s command, stationed near Wartrace, Tenn., are having a good deal of sport in catching a large number of rabbits daily. An old friend of ours says that on last Friday the boys captured about four hundred of the “molly cottontails.” They manage the thing well. Two or [...]
April 8, 1863, Arkansas True Democrat (Little Rock) Some six or eight weeks ago, handbills and circulars were sent all over the State, notifying country dealers and merchants that the subscriber thereto was prepared to furnish some 50,000 pairs of cotton cards, calicoes, and other things, on terms that would enable them to supply families [...]
April 8, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MERCURY.) RICHMOND, Saturday, April 4. The cold March wind blowing this morning is fast drying the roads and paving the way to army operations, which the light April showers will hardly put a stop to. HOOKER’S army must be demoralized, if the half we hear from [...]
April 8, 1863, The New York Herald IMPORTANT NEWS. Three Thousand Armed Women Attack the Government and Private Stores. BALTIMORE, April 7, 1863. Col. Stewart, of the Second Indiana regiment, one of the fourteen United States officers just released by the rebels, and who has just arrived here, makes the following statement: – On Thursday [...]
April 8, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser When we see a man advertising for a wife or a woman advertising for a husband, we conclude that it was either intended for a joke or that it is bona fide. If it is intended for wit, where is the wit? If there is anything peculiarly funny in [...]
April 8, 1863, The Charleston Mercury A correspondent of the Jackson Appeal, writing from Port Hudson, La., under date of March 15, gives the annexed account of the Yankee attack on that place: The long expected contest between the Yankee fleet took place before daylight this morning, the first shot being fired at ten minutes [...]
April 8, 1863, Charleston Mercury The Augusta Constitutionalist, of Saturday last, appears in a half sheet. The editor says: The destruction of the Bath Paper Mills, from which was derived our supplies of printing paper, may entail on us the necessity of suspending the issue of the Constitutionalist. At this time it seems impossible to [...]
April 8, 1863, The Charleston Mercury About two weeks since, a force of about four hundred men of the Seventh New Hampshire Volunteers, stationed at St. Augustine, Fla., were out in the woods near that place, either on a foraging expedition or making an attempt to capture the company of Capt. DICKERSON, of the Second [...]
April 8, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi) A letter bearing the following direction reached the post office of our neighboring village of Clinton, where it was copied, and the letter bearing it again started for its proper destination in Louisiana: Go wing thy flight where e’er thou may, I’d have thee do so, without delay, [...]
April 8, 1863, Arkansas True Democrat (Little Rock) For the True Democrat. Mr. Editor: Through the kindness of Dr. Headley, the head surgeon of Gen. McRae’s brigade, I had the pleasure a few days since of visiting the regimental hospitals of that brigade. For temporary encampments I regard these hospitals as models of the best [...]
April 8, 1863, The Charleston Mercury HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA AND FLORIDA, GENERAL ORDERS No. 58. CHARLESTON, S.C. April 5, 1863. I. FIELD AND COMPANY OFFICERS ARE SPECIALLY enjoined to instruct their men under all circumstances to fire with deliberation at the feet of the enemy; they will thus avoid over-shooting, and, besides, [...]
April 8, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi) The Richmond correspondent of the Knoxville Register says: The evils incident to revolution are in this city developed in their worst aspect. Citizens of Richmond are not affected by them, but the crowds which congregate in the Capital, of both sexes, give abundant evidence of the rapid progress [...]
April 8, 1863, The Charleston Mercury At last, the long period of doubt and delay is at an end; and this goodly city, girdled with the fiery circle of its batteries, stands confronted with the most formidable Armada that the hands of man have ever put afloat. The first scene in the novel drama of [...]
April 8, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) A correspondent of the Mobile Advertiser, writing from the camp of the Thirty-eighth Alabama Regiment, relates the following: Some weeks ago, a young man came to camp and proposed to volunteer. He was accepted, there being nothing in his physical appearance to indicate the singular denouement which followed six [...]
April 8, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi) There is no country in the civilized world where quite the same devotion is paid to woman as in our own sunny domain. There is no land where woman, occupying in society her own appropriate place, deserves and receives a more unqualified homage, or exerts a more general [...]
April 8, 1863, The New York Herald There is nothing new from the Army of the Potomac. The snow has disappeared, but the roads are in a frightful condition. By an arrival from Hilton Head we learn that the town of Jacksonville, Florida, was burned by the Union forces under Colonel Rust, in return for [...]
April 8, 1863, Arkansas True Democrat (Little Rock) Warren, Texas, March 23d, 1863. Mr. Editor: Having seen several pieces in your paper in regard to the war, our facilities for sustenance and defence, I take the liberty of requesting you to insert my opinion, if it is only the opinion of a native Texan girl. [...]
April 8, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser We regret to learn that the Bath Paper Mill, situated a short distance from Augusta, Georgia, was destroyed by fire on Thursday last. This mill supplied a number of the most prominent papers of the country, and its loss at the present time is a public calamity.
April 8, 1863, Galveston Weekly News The Brownsville correspondent of the San Antonio Herald says Judge Davis was accompanied by a Major who was formerly a preacher in Austin, and by a Lieut. who was also a renegade from the same city, and by three subaltern officers, two of whom were from this State. One [...]
April 8, 1863, Galveston Weekly News Brownsville, Texas, March 22, 1863. Editor Galveston News: It is reported that Col. (late Judge) Davis, after his surrender to Gov. Lopez Wednesday last, behaved himself prudently, not joining in the noisy demonstrations gotten up by the Consul and adherents among the rabble, and that he has left Matamoras [...]
April 7th. This afternoon some men were seen on shore making signals with a flag. Thinking it to be some parties from the lower fleet wishing to communicate with us, we ordered our army signal officer to exchange signals with them, but he found that it was impossible to do so, as they used different [...]
Tuesday, April 7th. I believe that it is for true that we are to leave for New Orleans, via Clinton and Ponchatoula, this evening. Clinton, at least, I am sure of. Lilly came down for me yesterday, and according to the present programme, though I will not answer for it in an hour from now, [...]
7th. After doing stable duty, went up to Co. H and got some ham, bread and coffee. Read the morning paper and wrote to Delos. A little after noon received orders to march. Fed, packed up and marched down to the boat. Saw Al Bushnell. Other battalion along. Took supper with Capt. Stewart on the [...]
Tuesday, 7th–The sanitary goods were issued to the different companies of the regiment today; the boys are pleased with the many good things that came from Iowa. Received orders to clean up for inspection.
APRIL 7th.—Nothing definite has transpired at Charleston, or if so, we have not received information of it yet. From the West, we have accounts, from Northern papers, of the failure of the Yankee Yazoo expedition. That must have its effect. Judge Campbell, Assistant Secretary of War, has decided in one instance (page 125, E. B. [...]