Tuesday, 19th.—We are surrounded; considerable cannonading on Chickasaw Bayou. Federal Regiment reported captured on the left. Our division on right wing occupying from the railroad to the river. Yankees charged, but were driven back with loss. Sharp shooting our artillery. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)
Tuesday, 19th – All is quiet here at Grand Gulf. We heard some heavy cannonading up at Vicksburg. The Third Brigade of General Lauman’s Division arrived this afternoon, and about 10 o’clock our brigade (the Third of the Sixth Division) and the Third Brigade of Lauman’s received orders to embark at once for Vicksburg. The [...]
19th. Finished a letter. Henry Drake brought me a letter from Will Hudson. Good but rather discouraging. Beat Capt. Nettleton at two games of chess. Horse shod. Mike took him out to graze. Put up a fly for commissary. Read the Lorain News and also Herald. Compliment to Case. Favorable news from Grant, Jackson and [...]
May 19th. Commences with clear and pleasant weather. Heard firing from twelve, midnight, to one A. M., in the direction of Port Hudson. From four o’clock until eight this morning, fresh easterly breezes; at five thirty A. M. steamer Price got under way and went up Red river, at twelve noon, the river steamer Empire [...]
May TUESDAY 19, 1863 Shallie Kirk & Mr Geo Atchison came with me Home this evening, no trouble with the Pickets. Mr Atchison leaves in a day or two for the Southern Army—and we were fortunate enough to get every thing through which he will need.
MAY 19th.—A dispatch from Gen. Johnston says a battle has been fought between Pemberton and Grant, between Jackson and Vicksburg, Mississippi, which lasted nine hours. Pemberton was forced back. This is all we know yet. Another letter, from Hon. W. Porcher Miles, remonstrating against the withdrawal of Beauregard’s troops, was received to-day. He apprehends the [...]
From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd MAY 19TH.–This day beholds a cordon of steel, with rivets of brave hearts, surrounding Vicksburg. The enemy left their fortifications on the first, twelfth, fourteenth, sixteenth and eighteenth of this month, and dealt their best blows to prevent the occurrence of what we have just accomplished–the surrounding of [...]
May 19, 1863, The Charleston Mercury LATEST FROM THE WEST. BRANDON, Miss., May 16, (via Montgomery May 17.) Five gentlemen rode to Jackson today and traversed the city. The enemy evacuated the place about two o’clock. Their force is supposed to be about 40,000. They have retreated towards Vicksburg. Firing has been heard in that [...]
May 19, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois) Cairo, May 18th. By arrival of the steamer Luminary we have news from Grant’s advance to the 11th and Milliken’s Bend the 14th. It is reported that Generals Logan and Osterhaus are marching towards Jackson, driving Bowen before them, while Grant is marching up the Black [...]
May 19, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (From the Examiner of Saturday.) We regret to have to announce this morning one of the most serious conflagrations that has afflicted Richmond for several years, involving not only loss of private property to the amount of half a million or more, but a short delay in the supply [...]
May 19, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) Brandon, Miss., May 16.–Five gentlemen who rode to Jackson to-day, and traversed the place while there, report that the city was evacuated by the enemy about two o’clock. They are supposed to number about 40,000, and they retreated in the direction of Vicksburg. Firing was heard by the [...]
May 19, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) Although Hooker crossed the river without baggage, the spoils of the battle field have proved unusually valuable. Already fifty thousand muskets and rifles have been picked up and secured, and are being sent to Richmond by rail. The quantity of great coats, knapsacks and rations, thrown away by [...]