May 7th. Commences with pleasant weather; at six forty-five A. M., sent the Albatross down the river in search of the Sachem; at 9 A. M., inspected crew at quarters; at two P. M., the Albatross came up the river and made fast inshore ahead of us; at two forty P. M., the Sachem came [...]
Thursday, 7th.—Reported Federals just across the river, and that General Beauregard had arrived at Vicksburg. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)
Thursday, 7th–One hundred and fifty prisoners captured at Grand Gulf were taken past here this morning; they all looked quite downhearted. A large train of provisions passed here for the army below. The roads are drying fast, which is making the hauling and marching better. The boys are all anxious to leave this place and [...]
7th. Weather still bad. After breakfast ordered to the river. No chance for us today to cross. By orders of Col. Kautz, I went to the Div. train and helped myself to one day’s rations. Lt. crossed over. Robinson, Drake and I got permission to swim our horses and cross. Saddled and went round by [...]
Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Lagrange, Tenn., May 7, 1863. Isn’t the Grierson “raid” glorious? Two other expeditions started from this point and were gone respectively five and ten days each. Although they made good long marches and took about 40 prisoners and 500 animals, still we forget them in looking after Grierson. We have the [...]
From May 16, 1863, Harper’s Weekly Click on map for larger image (300 kbytes)
MAY 7th.—A scout came in to-day with the vexatious intelligence that a body of hostile cavalry is still in Louisa County. And later in the day we have information that the Mattapony bridge was burned last night! Thus again is communication interrupted between Gen. Lee and the city! Our wounded cannot be brought to the [...]
From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd MAY 7TH.–Our company detailed and reported this morning at headquarters for picket duty, but not being needed, returned to camp. Were somewhat disappointed, for we preferred a day on picket by way of change. Pickets are the eyes of the army and the terror of those who live [...]
May 7, 1863, The New York Herald Our couriers from Hooker’s army bring the details of movements on the Rappahannock down to Monday night as relates to the main army, and to Tuesday morning at two o’clock in relation to the detachment under General Sedgwick. The news from General Sedgwick’s detachment is less encouraging at [...]
May 7, 1863, Mobile Register And Advertiser At Brownsville, Texas, molasses is selling at fifty cents per gallon. Shoes, of good make, eighteen dollars per dozen. Hats, at the same prices. Domestics, twenty cents per yard. Two hundred barrels of flour sold at auction at ten dollars and fifty cents per barrel.
May 7, 1863, The New York Herald Army of the West. General Hartsuff has received an appointment under General Burnside, and has left Washington for his new seat of military labors. He has to some extent recovered from the wounds he received at Antietam – enough to enable him to resume active duties – therefore [...]
May 7, 1863, The New York Herald Our Special Reports from the Battle Field. OPERATIONS ON SUNDAY. After the disaster to our right wing on Saturday and the manifestation the rebels made of their position and intentions, Gen. Hooker determined upon a radical change of front. Hitherto, as the reader has seen, his line faced [...]
May 7, 1863, The New York Herald Our Special Reports from the Battle Field. CORRESPONDENCE OF MR. L.W. BUCKINGHAM. May 3, 1863. I shall not attempt to chronicle the disgraceful affair of a part of the Eleventh corps (formerly Sigel), till I am able to learn full particulars and send you a diagram of the [...]
May 8, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We make up from our Richmond exchanges of Tuesday a summary of such additional intelligence of the recent movements of the campaign in Virginia as had been received up to Monday night: THE BATTLE. The scene of the battle is in Spotsylvania county, between the Wilderness and Chancellorsville. The [...]
May 7, 1863, Semi-Weekly News (San Antonio, Texas) (Communicated.) Why is it, while our attention is so often called to our hospitals in Galveston, in Arkansas and in Virginia, that nothing is said or done for our own sick and suffering soldiers here at home? Why should they be kept in “durance vile,” in [...]
May 7, 1863, Semi-Weekly News (San Antonio, Texas) The Knoxville Register learns, through a letter from a lady living near Murfreesboro‘, that the vandals are committing terrible excesses in Tennessee. They are turning women and children out of their houses without food or shelter. They had ravished four girls of good respectability in society, [...]
May 7, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (From the Richmond Examiner of Monday.) On Saturday morning the belief became general in the city that Hooker had succeeded in throwing the main body of his army across the upper waters of the Rappahannock and had established himself on a line running from Chancellorsville, on the Orange plank [...]
May 7, 1863, The New York Herald The intelligence from General Hooker’s army brings us to the sanguinary conflict in Virginia up to Tuesday morning, at which time affairs looked more favorable for our forces than at any previous time since the movement commenced. On Monday the rebels in large force pressed hotly on General [...]
May 7, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Our readers read yesterday a synopsis of the debate in the Senate on the bill which passed the House of Representatives, repealing the Naturalization Laws, in view of the influx of Yankees after the war. This bill is similar to that introduced by Mr. THOMAS COBB, of Georgia, into [...]
May 7, 1863, The New York Herald Our Special Reports from the Battle Field. OUR DESPATCHES. THE CORRESPONDENCE OF T.M. COOK. HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, NEAR UNITED STATES FORD, MONDAY EVENING, May 4, 1863. I write you in the midst of a lull in operations in this vicinity – perhaps the lull that precedes [...]
May 7, 1863, Mobile Register And Advertiser The factory at Bankston has suspended operations, and the place is being fortified. Col. Wesson has despatched a messenger asking for troops to defend and protect the factory.–[Greensboro (Miss.) Motive, 25th.
May 7, 1863, The New York Herald Our Special Reports from the Battle Field. OPERATIONS ON SATURDAY. CHANGE OF POSITION. During the night of Friday the position of our forces was very materially changed. The Second corps was thrown down the Blanks Ford road, holding the extreme left of our line, and, with a portion [...]
May 7, 1863, The Charleston Mercury FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN VIRGINIA–THE LATEST NEWS. RICHMOND, May 5. – The following despatch was received this evening: GUINEA STATION, NEAR FREDERICKSBURG, Tuesday, May 5. To his Excellency President Davis: At the close of the battle of Chancellorsville, on Sunday, the enemy was reported advancing from Fredericksburg [...]
May 7, 1863, The New York Herald Our Special Reports from the Battle Field. OPERATIONS ON FRIDAY. DISPOSITION OF THE FORCES. These forces all reached their destination on Thursday, and were promptly thrown into position to repel any attack that might be made upon them. On the same evening the Second corps followed across at [...]
May 7, 1863, The New York Herald Our Special Reports from the Battle Field. CORRESPONDENCE OF MR. L.A. HENDRICK. FIFTH ARMY CORPS HEADQUARTERS, IN THE WOODS, REAR OF CHANCELLORSVILLE, Va., May 4, 1863. THE “ESPIRIT DU CORPS” OF THE TROOPS. About nine o’clock last evening I visited the Ninth Massachusetts regiment, supporting a battery in [...]