Thursday, 21st – Early this morning, at 6 o’clock, we moved up the river and entering the Yazoo river we reached Haines’s Bluff, where we landed and stacked arms. Here we remained several hours awaiting orders. General Sherman has just taken Haines’s Bluff and now is uniting with General Grant’s forces in surrounding Vicksburg. At [...]

21st. Played some chess with Thede. Beat Chester two games. Thede and I one apiece. In the afternoon issued rations of sugar and coffee. Pork, bread and beef in the evening. In the evening two papers came, Independent. Commenced letter to Sarah.

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Lagrange, Tenn., May 21, 1863. I am still sitting on this Court Martial. We may finish up this week. Everything is quiet here. To-day three or four regiments have gone out with seven days’ rations. All mounted. Rumors reach us daily that Grant is in a critical situation; but I can’t [...]

May 21st. Firing was heard before daylight, down the river; at nine A. M. the steamer Gen. Sterling Price got under way and went up the Mississippi river; at nine A. M. as usual, inspected the crew at quarters. Commodore James S. Palmer went up Red river in steam gunboat Sachem; at two P. M., [...]

MAY 21st.—There was a rumor on the street last night that Gen. Johnston had telegraphed the President that it would be necessary to evacuate Vicksburg. This has not been confirmed to-day, and I do not believe it. It would be irremediably disastrous. Mr. N. S. Walker writes from Bermuda, May 11th, 1863, that seventeen additional [...]

From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd MAY 21ST.–We were relieved this morning before daylight, and slipped back to our camp as quietly as we could. The rifle pits where we watched were pretty close to the enemy, and we had to note every movement made by them. If they put their heads above their [...]

May THURSDAY 21, 1863 I found my little friend George easily influenced, and willing to leave this morn if I said so. I am restless I cant account for, he started early. Shallie and I went back to Memphis. God bless Geo, and grant him a safe & speedy trip to dear Gratz.

May 21, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We make some interesting extracts from a sketch of the late battles on the Rappahannock, communicated to the Columbia Carolinian by a correspondent in the army: Next morning early the firing was resumed. Our infantry began to press forward in earnest, and our artillery, which had succeeded in getting [...]

May 21, 1863, The Charleston Mercury From the data furnished from the best informed sources, the Richmond Enquirer is enabled to give a fair estimate of our actual losses in the late battles of the Rappahannock. The estimate presents a total of 7,500 killed, wounded, and missing, subdivided as follows: Killed………………………1,000 Wounded………………….4,900 Prisoners…………………..1,600 Total………………………..7,500 In [...]

May 21, 1863, The Charleston Mercury From a gentleman just arrived from Jackson, the Mobile Tribune learns some points of interest not exactly in the nature of the latest news, but facts which enable the reader to form just conclusions in reference to matters in that district. That a grand effort to reduce Vicksburg would [...]

May 21, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)             Miss Fanny C. James, daughter of Mr. John James, of Baltimore, has been arrested in that city and committed to the Baltimore jail to be tried by the civil authorities under the treason act of Maryland, under the charge of giving aid and comfort to the rebels, in [...]

May 21, 1863, The New York Herald From all the rumors which reach us today it would seem that the position of general Grant is not quite as secure as his recent occupation of the capital of Mississippi, after a succession of victories at Raymond, Mississippi Springs, and Jackson itself, might lead us to suppose [...]

May 21, 1863, The Ranchero (Corpus Christi, Texas)             The State Military Board have purchased several thousand pairs of Cotton Cards, which have been apportioned to the counties on the basis of the scholastic census.  The price is ten dollars per pair, in currency, at Austin, payable on delivery.  It is required that the counties [...]

May 21, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)             The following is a copy of the letter to Miss James, of Baltimore, intercepted by the Federals, and upon which she is imprisoned in the Baltimore jail: Richmond, Va., March 15,   } Tuesday Noon.    }             My Dear Fannie:–Your letters have just been received, and the pleasure it [...]

May 21, 1863, Semi-Weekly News (San Antonio, Texas) Notice.             The County commissioners of Bexar Co. during the absence of the Chief Justice, will attend at the Clerk’s Office on Friday, May 29th, and Wednesday, June 3d, 1863, and at such other times as may be necessary, to take the affidavits of soldiers wifes and [...]

May 21, 1863, Charleston Mercury             We recollect the silk excitement of twenty odd years ago, which, under the stimulus of Yankeeizing speculation, was turned into the murus multicaulis mania, the unlucky consequence of which brought discredit upon the really laudable enterprise in which it originated.  We had believed that the silk culture in the [...]

May 21, 1863, Nashville Dispatch             There has been a pretty heavy emigration from Middle Tennessee during the past three or four months, mainly to the Western States.  These people go to seek homes where they hope to be free from the annoyances inseparably connected with a state of war, like that of which Tennessee [...]