April 23, 1863, The New York Herald The steamer Key West, which arrived at this port yesterday from Beaufort, S.C., with dates of the 20th inst., reports that the story of the rebels having abandoned the siege of Washington, N.C., is fully confirmed. We have no later news from that direction. A despatch from Memphis, [...]

April 22d. Commences with cool, pleasant weather. Crew employed painting ship, &c. Our color has always been black, but owing to a late order from the Department, at Washington, all vessels composing the Western Gulf Squadron are now to be painted a lead color, which is hardly distinguishable from the water of the Mississippi.

Wednesday, 22nd. Finished Fannie’s letter and mailed it. Pitched quoits awhile with Charlie Fairchild. Read in an old Atlantic. “Old Age and Hundred Days in Mo.” Boys went out and got a beef from 1st Ky. Issued rations from what we had. Received some from 3rd Battalion. Stayed out doors till tattoo. Commenced raining. Wrote [...]

Wednesday, April 22d, New Orleans. Yesterday we arrived; I thought we should never get here. Monday we had almost given up in despair, believing the schooner would never return. But in the evening, when all were gathered in our room discussing our hopes and fears, a sail was perceived at the mouth of the bayou, [...]

Wednesday, 22d–We landed at Milliken’s Bend early this morning and went into camp on a large plantation about a mile from the levee of the river.

APRIL 22d.—The President is reported to be very ill to-day–dangerously ill—with inflammation of the throat, etc. While this is a source of grief to nearly all, it is the subject of secret joy to others. I am sure I have seen some officers of rank to-day, not fighting officers, who sincerely hope the President will [...]

April 22, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois) Telegraphed to the Peoria Mail. Vicksburg, April 21. Official dispatches received here last night say that a portion of Admiral Porter’s fleet, with a large number of soldiers from General Grant’s army, have succeeded in running the batteries at Vicksburg, and are now in a condition to either [...]

April 22, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser  The New York Tribune, of the 8th, gives a flourishing account of a great “bread riot in Richmond,” for the particulars of which it is indebted to Col. Stewart, of the 22d Indiana Regiment, an U. S. Officer, just released by the Confederates. Col. S. says he witnessed the [...]

April 22, 1863, Arkansas True Democrat (Little Rock) It has been known, for weeks, that the federals in this State, as well as others, were destroying all farming implements, seizing all provisions and preventing the planting of crops, with the avowed determination to starve the people into submission. We suppose it might be possible that [...]

April 22, 1863, The New York Herald The Recent Fighting on the Nansemond River. Our Suffolk Correspondence. SUFFOLK, Va., April 20, 1863. At sunset yesterday afternoon, a portion of the force under command of General Getty, accomplished quite a feat of daring. Major General Peck for two days past has been watching a good opportunity [...]

April 22, 1863, Galveston Weekly News  The Almanac Extra contains a letter from Gen. H. E. McCulloch, dated Camp Wright, Arkansas, March 6th, stating that as Congress commuted soldiers’ rations in Hospital at one dollar a day, the means from this source will be more than sufficient to support the hospitals of that State, and [...]

April 22, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois)  It is announced on high authority that the conscription will be enforced in May–that is, the enrollment will be made during that month. The list of provost marshals and their regulations are nearly completed. The delay has been caused by section eight, which requires the appointment by the [...]

April 22, 1863, Galveston Weekly News  I take this opportunity to say to those planters with whom I have conferred on the subject of establishing a cotton and woolen factory, some of whom subscribed conditionally to the stock of the proposed Texas Manufacturing Company before I obtained a charter incorporating the same, which was granted [...]

April 22, 1863, Dallas Herald From the Telegraph.             By Captain W. T. G. Weaver. Brave sons of that chivalrous land of the west,             The first and the boldest in war, Since the hour you struck for a nation oppressed             By the light of her rising star– Remember that field where our countrymen [...]

April 22, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Gen. BRAGG has moved his headquarters from Tullahoma to Shelbyville. A correspondent of the Savannah News, writing from the latter place, gives the following account of VAN DORN’S fight at Franklin. On Sunday last a courier came from Gen. Van Dorn, with despatches containing a report of his engagement [...]

April 22, 1863, The New York Herald THE SIEGE OF WASHINGTON. THE VERY LATEST. The Siege of Washington raised. OUR NEWBERN CORRESPONDENCE. NEWBERN, N.C., April 18, 1863. Yesterday morning the gunboat Whitehead, Captain French commanding, arrived at this place, with despatches from Washington, stating the enemy had the […..] siege” at that place and were [...]

April 22, 1863, Memphis Daily Appeal (Jackson, Mississippi)  Among the many efforts of the ladies of the South to contribute to the comfort of their brave defenders in the field, few, perhaps, have been more successful in accomplishing their original purpose than the enterprise of establishing a lunch house for the passing soldier at Jackson. [...]

April 22, 1863, Galveston Weekly News  The undersigned begs leave to inform the public that he has succeeded in introducing into this State two suits of double Wool Carding Machines and Picker, and has located the same at Prairie Lea, in Caldwell county, at the Mills of Mr. Thos. Mooney, on the San Marcos river. [...]

April 22, 1863, The New York Herald The grand campaign, upon which the rebellion has staked its strength, its resources, its fortunes and its destiny, opens cheeringly for the Union cause, East and West. The co-operative movements of General Grant and Admiral Porter, General Banks and Admiral Farragut, in Louisiana, lead us to anticipate very [...]

April 22, 1863, Arkansas True Democrat (Little Rock) Cross County, Ark., April 11th, 1863.  Mr. Editor–Having a leisure moment, I proceed to give you a concise statement of the federal raid in this portion of the State recently made. On Tuesday, the 7th inst., four transports arrived at Wittsburg, on the St. Francis river, with [...]

April 22, 1863, The New York Herald The city experienced no little excitement yesterday, after a lull of some days, from the news which reached here from different quarters; each of a highly important and interesting character. For example: – 1. – New Orleans. 2. – Vicksburg. 3. – Nansemond river. 4. – Washington, N.C. [...]

April 22, 1863, The New York Herald Our New Orleans Correspondence. NEW ORLEANS, April 13, 1863. Important military movements are now in progress against the enemy on the Bayou Teche. General Banks is in the field, at the head of General Grover’s and Emery’s divisions and Brigadier General Weitzel’s brigade. On Saturday last Gen. Weitzel’s [...]

April 22, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi) We have lately published the fact that several societies have been inaugurated in Georgia, and, also we think in Alabama, for the purpose of supplying provisions to families at as low a cost as possible–the only profit on what is sold being made just sufficient to pay the [...]

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 [...]