May 24th. After a night’s rest and breakfast I was very much improved, taking my place in the company. We left the camp at 6 A. M. Sunday morning with drums and fifes, to the tune of Old John Brown, which was kept up until we passed through the town. In this town John Brown [...]

Sunday, 24th – The rebels tried to shell us again this morning, but could not get range of us. There was not much fighting today, our men having orders not to advance. Our siege guns, mortar boats and gunboats are throwing shells into the rebels day and night. We were relieved from picket this afternoon [...]

24th. In the morning early issued potatoes and beef. Thede felt a little better. After breakfast got water and helped him bathe. Bathed myself and changed clothes. Read Independents and Congregationalist. Word that chaplain would preach at 5 p. M. but ne’er a sermon. Report came that Grant had defeated Pemberton. Wrote home. Made thickened [...]

May 24th. Commences with pleasant weather. Light winds from S. E. Transports in sight coming down the river, and cavalry and infantry landing at the levee at Bayou Sara from four to eight A. M.; at eight thirty A. M. hove up anchor, got under way and steamed down the river; at nine thirty A. [...]

MAY 24th Sunday.—We have had a fortnight of calm, dry, and warm weather. There is a hazy atmosphere, and the sun rises and sets wearing a blood-red aspect. At night the moon, dimly and indistinctly seen (now a crescent), has a somber and baleful appearance. This is strange at this season of the year; it [...]

From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd MAY 24TH.–Sunday; and how little like the Sabbath day it seems. Cannon are still sending their messengers of death into the enemy’s lines, as on week days, and the minnie balls sing the same song, while the shovel throws up as much dirt as on any other day. [...]

May SUNDAY 24, 1863 The raide passed in to Memphis this evening. Col Strunk’s company1 allowed our Negros to come home—the horses & Dashiell taken in. Mr Seymour sent for Mrs Taylor and Patton, they went over to Mrs Duke’s preparatory to going up River. Union

May 24, 1863, Mobile Register And Advertiser             Our exchanges frequently record romantic incidents connected with the war, but we have seen none better than the following, which we clip from the Nashville Dispatch: Dep’t of Cumberland, May 17, 1863.             General:  The general commanding directs me to call your attention to a flagrant outrage [...]