April 5. This is the holy Sabbath day. Between the hours of nine and ten A. M., inspected crew at quarters, after which all hands were called to muster. Performed Divine service, and mustered crew around capstan. Warm and pleasant weather.
5th. Orders for our Battalion to move today to Cincinnati. Received orders to go along a little while before starting. Went up with the Battalion. Drew my pay. Went and called on Sister Melissa in P. M. and evening. Sent $125 home. Wrote to Fannie and home. Left on the cars at eight. Rather tiresome [...]
Sunday, 5th–We had company inspection at 10 o’clock this morning and regimental inspection at 5 p. m. I did not go out on inspection, having to prepare an elaborate dinner (some of that codfish), and after dinner I had a good many dishes to wash—tin plates, cups and knives and forks. I read the following [...]
The following diary entry contains wording that is offensive to many in the world of today. However, the entry is provided unedited for its historical content and context. Picket Duty. April 5. I fear I was not appreciated on the fort, as I was superseded after my first day’s effort and have since been assigned [...]
APRIL 5th.—Snow fell all night, and a depth of several inches covers the earth this morning. It will soon melt, however, as it is now raining. The Northern invaders who anticipate a pleasant sojourn during the winter and spring in this climate, have been very disagreeably disappointed in these expectations. A surgeon was arrested yesterday [...]
April 5, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi) This paper has been discontinued. The proprietors of the Mississippian having become its publishers previous to its suspension, are responsible to its patrons for their subscriptions to it. In all cases, where direction is not given to the contrary, the advance payments for subscription to the Crisis will [...]
April 5, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois) Warning The following poem contains wording that is offensive to many in the world of today. However, the article is provided unedited for its historical content and context. Tell Abe Lincoln that he’d better end the war, Tell Abe Lincoln what we all came out here for, Tell [...]
April 4th. The day has been spent in making arrangements to repel any attack that might be advanced by the enemy at night, by way of putting up boarding nettings, &c. It is rumored that the enemy intends boarding our ship with a large force; if such an attempt should be made, they will find [...]
April 4th.—Started back to camp 4 P. M. Regiment had moved three miles north of town, on Chickasaw Bayou. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)
4th. Went up for the bread and beef. Visited the barber shop. Sleeked up. Examined our new arms. Like them well. We ought to be able to accomplish something with them. At school in the evening. A. B. has telegraphed for Melissa. Hope she can come tonight. He goes to town. Beat and was beaten [...]
Saturday, 4th–Nothing of importance. The weather is getting very warm, but it is pleasant. I wrote another letter to Jason Sparks.
April 4th.—Spent to-day in Richmond, attending on the wounded. The mob of women came out yesterday, but in smaller numbers, and was easily put down by military authority. To-day a repetition was expected, and the cannon was in place to rake the streets, but they thought discretion the better part of valour, and staid at [...]
APRIL 4th.—It is the belief of some that the riot was a premeditated affair, stimulated from the North, and executed through the instrumentality of emissaries. Some of the women, and others, have been arrested. We have news of the capture of another of the enemy’s gunboats, in Berwick Bay, Louisiana, with five guns. It is [...]
April 4, 1863, (Marshall) Texas Republican A friend whom we engaged to purchase us a supply of printing paper on the other side of the river, had just returned and informs us that he applied at several mills in Georgia, and failed to obtain any. That if he could have procured the paper, it would [...]
Washington April 4th (Saturday) I left Washington on the 16th March on a two weeks leave of absence and spent the time visiting my family at Sag Harbor L.I. I returned the 2nd Inst (Thursday). I had a very pleasant visit and regreted leaving home more than I ever did before. This is a miserable [...]
April 4, 1863, The New York Herald We publish this morning General McClellan’s official report of the battle of Antietam. This report shows, as clearly as the sun at noonday, that if McClellan’s advice in regard to Harper’s Ferry had been followed by the War Department the battle of Antietam would have resulted still more [...]
April 4, 1863, Mobile Register And Advertiser Ladies throughout the South are requested to interest themselves in the culture of the Garden Poppy, and thus render the Confederacy essential service. The juice extracted from the punctured capsule, when sufficiently hardened, should be carefully put up and forwarded to the nearest Medical Purveyor’s Department.
April 4, 1863, Richmond Examiner This titled Dutchman, who was captured at Fairfax Court House with General Stoughton, by Capt. Mosby, and confined for a time at the Libby prison, has returned to the North on parole, and ventilated his Teutonic spleen by the publication of some of the most bare faced and monstrous lies [...]
April 4, 1863, (Marshall) Texas Republican E. J. Davis, formerly Judge of the Brownsville District, lately a rampant unionist and recently a Colonel in the Federal service, visited Matamoras not long since where he remained for several days. He left on the 11th ult., carrying with him his wife, a patriotic good woman who is [...]
April 4, 1863, The New York Herald The First army corps of General Hooker’s army was reviewed by that officer on Thursday, and the appearance of the troops was pronounced most satisfactory. General orders have been issued for a grand muster of the troops in the Potomac Army on the 10th inst., after which the [...]
April 4, 1863, (Marshall) Texas Republican We learn that considerable excitement exists in several of the Northeastern counties of this State, and particularly those of Hunt and Hopkins, growing out of the appearance in that section of some men belonging to the notorious Martin D. Hart. After the execution of Hart, a portion of his [...]
April 4, 1863, Southern Confederacy (Atlanta, Georgia) There was some little excitement in town yesterday in consequence of a small group of feminine seizers, some of whom undertook to replenish their stock of dry goods by a descent upon a pile of calico. The proceedings, however, were not conducted with much vigor and determination, and [...]
April 4, 1863, (Marshall) Texas Republican Dear Loughery, I had heard much of the extensive tannery, saw and grist mill, in course of construction by Gregg & Co., but still had no conception of the extent of the enterprise, till recently happening to be near, I concluded to call by, see, and judge of the [...]
April 4, 1863, The New York Herald Preliminary Report of General McClellan of the Battles of South Mountain and Antietam. HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Oct. 15, 1862. GENERAL – I have the honor to submit a preliminary report of the military operations under my charge since the evacuation of Harrison’s Landing. The measure directed [...]
April 4, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois) The people of the country who have watched with anxiety the progress of affairs near Vicksburg; who have read with deep interest every scrap of intelligence from that locality, and who had hoped for ultimate victory in the face of repeated reverses, are now beginning to wonder what [...]