Wednesday, 13th.—I have just heard that my dear nephew, Will’by N., was wounded at Chancellorsville, and that his left leg has been amputated. He is at Mr. Marye’s, near Hamilton’s Crossings, receiving the warm-hearted hospitality of that house, now so widely known. His mother has reached him, and he is doing well. I pray that [...]

Wednesday, 13th–After an early breakfast we left bivouac at 6 o’clock and took up our march. By noon we reached the Mississippi river, where we took boat, and going down about two miles landed on the east bank at Grand Gulf or Hard Times Landing—where the town once was. The town was destroyed just a [...]

13th. Took our horses out. Issued beef. Cleaned up and went over to town. Col. Abbey bought me a good woolen hat. John Ritter moved over to town–Div. saddler–good place. Took Thede some cheese. Diarrhoea. Sorry. Played chess with A. B.–got the worse. Rainy evening. No letters.

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Lagrange, Tenn., May 13, 1863. I have been on a General Court Martial for the last ten days, and we will not, in all probability, adjourn for some weeks yet. We tried Governor Yates’ brother. He is Adjutant of the 6th Illinois Cavalry. Another little reverse on the Rappahannock. All right! [...]

May 13th. Commences with pleasant weather; firing commenced between the hours of one and two o’clock this morning, and continued up to three o’clock; it was heard to the southward; at daylight the gunboat Benton, with the General Price and tug Ivy, got under way and steamed up the river; at 10 o’clock a steam [...]

MAY 13th.—Col. Gorgas, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, sent in to-day a report of the arms captured in the recent battle. It appears from his statement that, so far, only eight guns have been found, taken from the enemy, while we lost ten. Thus, it would appear, our papers have been “lying,” in regard [...]

From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd MAY 13TH.–Up early, and on the march to Jackson, as we suppose. I dreamed of my bunk-mate last night. Wonder if his remains will be put where they can be found, for I would like, if I ever get the chance, to put a board with his name [...]

May 13, 1863, The Charleston Mercury FUNERAL OF GENERAL JACKSON. RICHMOND, May 12. The funeral procession of General JACKSON today was a grand pageant. The streets along which it passed were thronged with ladies and gentlemen. The procession left the Governor’s mansion at 10 1/2 o’clock this morning, and marched in column, with bands of [...]

            “Hermes,” the correspondent of the Charleston Mercury, says the following story, is current in Richmond:             In the Capitol Square, a few days ago, a drunken soldier accosted the President:             “Are you Mr. Davis?”             “I am,” was the stern reply.              “Are you the President of the Confederate States?”              “I am.” [...]

May 13, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We glean from the Richmond papers some additional details of the recent battles on the Rappahannock. The correspondent of the Dispatch writes: THE FIGHT IN THE WILDERNESS. The fight on the plank road – in the country known as the ‘Wilderness’ was, beyond doubt, one of the must stubbornly [...]

May 13, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Seldom, indeed, has a people manifested so deep and universal a sorrow as that which has spread over the land with the announcement of the loss of the loved and trusted leader, whom both hemispheres had learned to know and admire as ‘Stonewall’ JACKSON. General LEE’S sublime tribute to [...]

May 13, 1863, Dallas Herald             We find the following paragraph in the Texas Almanac Extra, of the 30th ult:             We are happy to say that the Military Board has received a large number of superior cotton cards, which they intend to distribute to the several counties upon the basis of the scholastic census.  [...]

May 13, 1863, Galveston Weekly News             The Item gives the following as the correct form for an application to obtain Penitentiary goods: The State of Texas, county of ________             Before me the undersigned authority, this day personally came Mrs. ________ of the same county, who made oath that the goods sought to be [...]

May 13, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas)             We have received from three little girls–Misses Eva Hutchins, Belle Smith, an Cora Gentry–the sum of four dollars and fifteen cents, the net proceeds of a juvenile fair gotten up by them for the benefit of the soldiers.  We shall apply it where we think the donation [...]

May 13, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)             We would state, for the information of persons who may write to friends abroad, or in the enemy’s lines, that no flags of truce are now allowed on the Georgia or Carolina coast, and all letters should be addressed via Petersburg, Va., and flag of truce to City [...]

May 13, 1863, Galveston Weekly News             Under this impressive head the Philadelphia Sunday Mercury publishes the following extract from a letter of a staff officer in one of the brigades of Sherman’s Division of the army of the Southwest.  It is written in camp on the Tallahatchie river, and the writer, says the Mercury, [...]

May 13, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser             A young woman, apparently about 17 years of age, was arrested in Augusta, on Tuesday last, attired in military apparel.–She said she was a married woman from Mississippi, and that she belonged to a company in Charleston.  The Augusta Chronicle thinks it likely she pants for glory.

May 13, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser             A project is on foot to establish a paper mill at Pine Bluff, Ark., and another is to be erected at some point in Texas.

May 13, 1863, Dallas Herald             The Bath paper mills in South Carolina, the most extensive in the South, have been destroyed by fire.  Many of the leading journals Eastward were dependent upon them for supply.  The Charleston Mercury, amongst others, will be suspended, and several will come down to a half sheet.  Those who [...]