Monday, May 18th.—This morning we had the gratification of a short visit from General Lee. He called and breakfasted with us, while the other passengers in the cars breakfasted at the hotel. We were very glad to see that great and good man look so well and so cheerful. His beard is very long, and [...]

Monday, 18th – A despatch from the front informs us that General Grant has taken the railroad bridge across the Big Black river in the rear of Vicksburg. The troops also took some prisoners. The Eleventh Iowa, accompanied by a gunboat, went on a scout up the Big Black river to destroy a bridge which [...]

Monday, 18th. Got Victor Hugo and finished it. An interesting and profitable work, a few exceptions. Capt. Hayes and A. B. called a little while. Gave them some pickles and H. bread and butter. In the evening wrote to Fannie. A delightful day. What a blessing, such weather and good health. Thede has a troublesome [...]

May 18th. At nine twenty A. M. the Sachem came down and out of Red river, and anchored ahead of us. The Albatross got under way and went down the Mississippi river. Saw the smoke of a steamer up Red river; at twelve, noon, the ram Switzerland came out of Red river, and communicated with [...]

From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd MAY 18TH.–The army last night made pontoons, on which this morning the Black River has been crossed. McClernand is on the left, McPherson in the center, and Sherman on the right. In this position the three great corps will move to Vicksburg by different roads. We are nearing [...]

May 18, 1863, The New York Herald By the arrival of the steamer George Washington, from New Orleans on the 9th instant, we have a full account of the capture of Alexandria, on the Red river, by Admiral Porter, the arrival of Admiral Farragut at New Orleans, and an intensely interesting and most valuable description [...]

May 18, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)             We are gratified to learn that this distinguished gentleman has been appreciated in Georgia and assigned to the control of an important interest.  He has been chosen President of the Etowah Iron Mining Company, in Bartow county, who have one among the finest works of the kind in [...]

May 18, 1863, The New York Herald Our latest news from the Southwest indicates a successful issue to General Grant’s inland movement in Mississippi for the reduction of Jackson and Vicksburg. The advanced detachments of his army, wherever they had come into contact with an opposing column of the enemy, had, after a severe contest, [...]

May 18, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas)             We acknowledge from Edmundson &  Culmell 185 yards mosquito netting, a donation for the hospital of Sibley’s Brigade.  It was a timely gift, as the hospital of these troops is now in a region perhaps worse infested with mosquitos than any other in America. 

May 18, 1863, The New York Herald Our Expeditionary Correspondence. SOUTH SIDE OF BIG BLACK RIVER, HANKERSON’S FERRY, MISS., May 3, 1863. Events have followed each other so rapidly within the last three days that I have been utterly unable to keep you informed of them as they have occurred. In a land blessed with [...]

May 18, 1863, The New York Herald The Great Cavalry Operations in the Southwest. Our Baton Rouge Correspondence. BATON ROUGE, La., May 5, 1863. I embrace the first opportunity to forward to you the particulars of one of the most important expeditions of the war. The excitement of the hour will hardly permit me to [...]

May 18, 1863, The New York Herald The cavalry expedition of Colonel Grierson through Mississippi has proved a great success. We have received a full and graphic description of the affair from Baton Rouge, by the George Washington, which arrived yesterday, and which we publish in another column. From the tone of a leading editorial [...]