Wednesday, 20th.—Heavy cannonading all day; sharpshooters very annoying indeed; keep up continual firing; our boys not allowed to return the fire on account of lack of ammunition. Companies A and F put in reserve battalion; pretty heavy firing along the river. About 7 P. M., Federals formed and fired one volley, raising the yell as [...]
May 20th.—I feel depressed to-night. Army news from the South bad. General Pemberton has been repulsed between Jackson and Vicksburg. General Johnston is there; I hope, by the mercy of God, he may be able to keep the enemy out of Vicksburg. Besides the depressing news, the day has been distressing in the hospital—so much [...]
May 20th. We remained here until this date having the finest of times, when orders were received to pack up and report to the regiment at Fort Marshall. Orders having been received for the regiment to report to General Robert H. Milroy at Winchester, Virginia.
Wednesday, 20th – This morning found us going up the river, when about 10 o’clock we landed three miles below Vicksburg. The rebels commenced throwing shells our way and we dropped down the river to a point six miles below the city. But at 4 o’clock we returned to the place we had reached in [...]
20th. After breakfast Mike and I took out the horses to graze. Went with Co. G. Took a book along to read, “The Slave Power,” by Cairnes. Very sensible. Got dinner at a house. Avoided the order by having dinner on the porch. Returned about 3 P. M. Mike got a chicken. An excellent letter [...]
May 20th. Another pleasant day dawns upon a sleeping world; at seven thirty A. M. finished coaling ship; have been engaged at it since yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon, and working all night received some seventy-three or seventy-five tons on board; at ten thirty A. M. the U. S. steam ram Gen. Price [...]
May WEDNESDAY 20, 1863 Geo Atchison will remain with us a day or two. I love him poor low one—he seems lost. I am very uneasy about him and will prepare his things to night and infuence him to leave in the morning.1 to join the Confederate army.
MAY 20th.—Reports from the West say we lost 3000 and the enemy 6000 men in the battle of the 15th inst., when Pemberton fell back over the Black River. Our forces numbered only 12,000, Grant’s three times that number. Something decisive must occur before Vicksburg in a few days. Mr. J. W. Henry writes from [...]
From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd MAY 20TH.–When I awoke this morning I offered thanks to God that my life had been spared thus far. We slept on our arms–something unusual. This day has been busily spent in making cautious advances toward the works of the enemy, and, although our progress seems to have [...]
May 20, 1863, Charleston Mercury A correspondent of the Mobile Advertiser, writing from Shelbyville, says: An officer in General Bragg’s army had obtained a short leave of absence to permit him to go home and attend to personal interests demanding his presence. Before his time of absence had expired he requested a further leave [...]
May 20, 1863, The New York Herald Jackson is a city of Mississippi, of which State it is the capital. It is situated in Hinds county, and has heretofore been a very thriving place. It is located on the right or western bank of the Pearl river, at the terminus of the Vicksburg and Jackson [...]
May 20, 1863, The New York Herald The Pearl river, which runs through nearly one half of the State of Mississippi, rises in Winston county, in the northeast central part of the State, and flows in a southwesterly direction to the city of Jackson. Here it makes a slight deviation from its course, and flows [...]
May 20, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MERCURY.) RICHMOND, Saturday, May 16. So far as I can learn, the fall of Jackson is based on a private telegram received yesterday from Mobile. The wires to that point have been cut, and the War Department professes ignorance. The greatest apprehensions are caused by the [...]
May 20, 1863, The New York Herald The latest news from General Grant’s army reports that the Capitol at Jackson has been burned, but whether by the troops of General Grant, or by the rebels in retreating, or by an accident, is not stated. The official reports of General Grant’s action at Jackson and the [...]
May 20, 1863, The New York Herald The Correspondence of Mr. G.W. Hosmer. CAMP NEAR FALMOUTH, May 13, 1863. THE ORDER TO CROSS THE RAPPAHANNOCK ISSUED AND COUNTERMANDED. Distinctly and certainly – as forcibly as possible, in fact – the Army of the Potomac is not south of the Rappahannock river. How the statement that [...]
May 20, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The movements in Central Mississippi are by far the most important and critical of any now transpiring in the great theatre of the war. The accounts from that quarter, both by mail and telegraph; have for several days been of a very confused and unsatisfactory character. We know, however, [...]
May 20, 1863, The New York Herald THE FIGHT AT CARRSVILLE. The Correspondence of Mr. Edward F. Denyse. IN BIVOUAC, NEAR CARRSVILLE, Va., May 15, 1863. On Wednesday afternoon, at about two o’clock, a reconnoissance force was started from Suffolk for the interior of the rebel country by way of the South Quay road. This [...]
May 20, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) The large fire at Richmond on Friday last, and of which telegraphic announcement was made in these columns, is thus alluded to by the Richmond Dispatch: “The large fire of Friday morning, which destroyed the Crenshaw Woolen Manufacturing Mill and part of the Tredegar Iron Works, was [...]
May 20, 1863, The New York Herald Our New Orleans Correspondence. NEW ORLEANS, April 30, 1863. The great importance of General Banks’ recent victories can scarcely be appreciated by the people of the North. Let me assure you that their results will be of incalculable benefit to our country. The rebel prisoners in communicating with [...]
May 20, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas) Rev. Mr. Moeling has, since the battle of Galveston, devoted himself to getting up a painting of the principal scene in the battle–the capture of the Harriet Lane. The artist has taken the moment when the Bayou City ran into the Lane, and our boarders rushed on [...]
May 20, 1863, Galveston Weekly News The San Antonio Herald says the Government has undertaken to establish a Tannery, and cotton and wool Factory in that city on a tract of 75 acres purchased of the city and some two miles above the city. These public works are under the Superintendence of Maj. T. [...]
May 20, 1863, The Charleston Mercury IMPORTANT FROM THE WEST – LATEST NEWS FROM THE ARMIES OF GRANT AND JOHNSTON. JACKSON, MISS., May 18. The enemy sent a flag of truce this evening to convey to our lines their principal surgeon, who has been left in charge of their wounded. He states that, in the [...]