May 1st. The first day of May commences with clear and pleasant weather. This afternoon the Admiral despatched the ram Switzerland up the river as far as Grand Gulf, for news of what was going on in that quarter. At nine o’clock this evening, a rocket was reported as seen sent up Red River, and [...]
May 1st.—Rumored fighting going on below. General Tracy killed; went into ditches in front of Barton’s Brigade. Dick Anderson came from home and brought us nice box of provisions; cooked two days’ rations. Started towards Grand Gulf 6 P. M. Marched until 2:30 A. M. Reported heavy fighting the last two days. (Note: picture is [...]
Friday, 1st–News came that General Sherman has again made an attack on Haines’s Bluff, the same as last fall when the plan failed because General Grant failed to co-operate with him. The plan is to be tried again this spring. A large ammunition train passed through here for Carthage, Louisiana. General Crocker left the command [...]
1st. Commenced moving across at 4 and all the regiments over by 9 A. M. Some fortifications on both sides of the river; Zollicoffer’s old huts still there. Moved on and overtook the 1st Battalion at Monticello. H, E, M in advance of column continually. Skirmishing. Four miles beyond M. found the rebels in force [...]
MAY 1st.—Gov. Vance writes that Gen. Hill desires him to call out the militia, believing the enemy, balked in the attempt on Charleston, will concentrate their forces against North Carolina. But the Governor is reluctant to call the non-conscripts from the plow in the planting season. He thinks the defense of North Carolina has not [...]
By Osborn H. Oldroyd MAY 1ST, 1863.– Logan’s Division, to which we belonged, embarked on transports, that had passed the batteries at Vicksburg and Grand Gulf, last night, about two miles below the latter place, where we had marched down the Louisiana levee to meet the boats. Crossing the Mississippi river, we landed at Bruinsburg, [...]
May 1, 1863, Southern Banner (Athens, Georgia) Circumstances beyond our control compel us to issue a half sheet this week.–By leaving out all but legal advertisements, and using small type, we are enabled to give nearly as much reading matter as usual.
June 1, 1863, The New York Herald Progress of the Negro Enlistments. Correspondence of Mr. Samuel R. Glen. NEWBERN, N.C., May 26, 1863. Since my last, per the Emilie, nothing of an important character has occurred. As was anticipated, the rebels retired from before the works of the late Colonel Jones, of the Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania, [...]
Title: “Gone off with the Yanks”; A land flowing with milk and honey; A scouting party; An old campaigner Creator(s): Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895, artist Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1876] Medium: 1 drawing. Summary: Four vignettes about the American Civil War on one sheet. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-20764 (digital file from original item) LC-USZ62-79163 (b&w film [...]
May 1, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas) Some ungallant scamp, in the Atlanta Intelligencer, gives his views as follows in regard to women, or rather the style of women he does and don’t prefer: Thin, spare made women, who look as though they lived on steel chips and saw filings, whose salient points [...]
May 1, 1863, Southern Confederacy (Atlanta, Georgia) She is modest, she is bashful, Free and easy, but not bold– Like an apple, ripe and mellow, Not too young, and not too old. Half inviting, half repulsing, Now advancing, and now shy, There is mischief in her dimple, There is danger in [...]
May 1, 1863, Charleston Mercury A young lady of Louisiana, whose father’s plantation had been brought within the enemy’s lines, in their operations against Vicksburg, was frequently constrained by the necessities of her situation to hold conversation with the Federal officers. On one of these occasions a Yankee official enquired how she managed to [...]
May 1, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi) The Fort Brown Flag of March 20th gives a detailed account of the capture and release of the renegade Judge Davis. A party of Texas Rangers crossed the Rio Grande, surrounded the house in which Davis and Montgomery were lodged in company with a number of renegades, [...]
Vicksburg, May 1st, 1863.—Ever since we were deprived of our cave, I had been dreading that H. would suggest sending me to the country, where his relatives live. As he could not leave his position and go also without being conscripted, and as I felt certain an army would get between us, it was no [...]