Tuesday, 26th–It was quiet all along the line last night. The rebels came out with a flag of truce, asking permission to bury their dead, killed during the day. Our brigade started towards the right this morning, and arriving at McPherson’s headquarters at the center, we went into bivouac for the night. Our march was [...]

26th. Charlie came over in the morning. Finished letters home and to Fannie A. Yesterday was birthday of Fred Allen. Wrote him a congratulatory letter according to program. Rode over to town with the letters. Letter from home–Minnie.

July 26.—Spent the day at the hospital. Mr. –– has just received a post chaplaincy from Government, and is assigned to the Officers’ Hospital on Tenth Street. For this we are very thankful, as the performance of the duties of the ministerial office is in all respects congenial to his taste and feeling. I pray [...]

May 26th. Commences with pleasant weather, and only to find us engaged in shelling the woods around Port Hudson, which proved a big scare to the rebels, so much so that they deserted two fine river steamers they had concealed among the bushes upon what is called (it is a small stream) Thompson’s Creek, and [...]

From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd MAY 26TH.–Up this morning at three o’clock, with orders for three days’ rations in our haversacks and five days’ in the wagons –also to be ready to move at ten o’clock to the rear, in pursuit of Johnston, who was thrusting his bayonets too close to our boys [...]

MAY 26th—Reliable information of hard fighting at Vicksburg; but still, so far as we know, the garrison of the invested city has repulsed every assault made upon it. The enemy’s losses are said to be very heavy. Something decisive must occur there soon, and I hope something calamitous to the enemy. The President and the [...]

May 26, 1863, The New York Herald As yet we have no official intelligence confirmatory of the news published yesterday of the actual capture of Vicksburg; but we have an important official despatch from Admiral Porter to the Secretary of the Navy, dated the 20th instant, which fully confirms all the accounts we had previously [...]

May 26, 1863, The New York Herald The capture of Vicksburg, incalculably more than any other achievement of the war, weakens the armies of the rebellion, and simplifies the work of their subjugation. In recovering the whole line of the Mississippi we not only cut off the rebellious States on the west side of the [...]

May 26, 1863, The Charleston Mercury A Western correspondent of the Columbia Guardian sums up the results, thus far, of GRANT’S movement against the rear of Vicksburg: Let us view stern facts and deduct our own conclusions as to the final termination of affairs about Vicksburg and Jackson. First, then, it is a fact that [...]

May 26, 1863, The New York Herald DETAILS OF THE BATTLES. The Advance on Raymond. RAYMOND, 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JACKSON, MISS. May 13, 1863. When I last wrote Gen. McClernand was on the extreme right, with Osterhaus’ division advanced to Rocky Spring. General McPherson at that time lay, with his army corps to the [...]

May 26, 1863, The Charleston Mercury LATE AND CHEERING NEWS FROM VICKSBURG. JACKSON, May 23. – Troops are continually arriving here, and Gen. JOHNSTON will soon have a fine army. The city is being fortified. The Mississippian, of Saturday, says: The enemy attacked Vicksburg six times on yesterday, and each time was defeated with immense [...]

May 26, 1863, The New York Herald Important Official Despatch of Admiral Porter. Fleet Captain of the Mississippi Squadron. FLAGSHIP BLACKHAWK, HAINES’ BLUFF, YAZOO RIVER, May 20, 1863. Hon. GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy: – On the morning of the 15th I came over to the Yazoo to be ready to co- operate with [...]

May 26, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia)                       Not long since we heard a young lady say that hereafter she intended to buy none but homespun dresses.  It was a wise conclusion, and we hope every woman in the Confederacy will follow her example, and [...]

May 26, 1863, The New York Herald The battles of General Grant in the vicinity of Vicksburg, and the brilliant victories of Admiral Porter on the Yazoo, have to be numbered among the most successful operations of the war. Admiral Porter, in his official despatch, dated from the Yazoo river, on the 20th inst., details [...]

May 26, 1863, The New York Herald The Battle of Baker’s Creek. CHAMPION HILLS, TWENTY-SIX MILES EAST OF VICKSBURG, May 16, 1863. Early this morning General McClernand’s corps was put in motion. General Hovey’s division was on the main road from Jackson to Vicksburg, but the balance of the corps was a few miles to [...]

May 26, 1863, The New York Herald Our Yorktown Correspondence. YORKTOWN, May 22 – 2 P.M. About sunset on Tuesday evening, the 19th inst., the casual observer at Yorktown must have notices the unusual number of persons on what are, par excellence, termed streets. The evening was beautiful and the air fresh, compared with that [...]

May 26, 1863, The Charleston Mercury A scouting part from one of our commands near Bluffton, visited Bull Island last week. They report that every house on the island has been burnt; even the fencing has been torn down, made into heaps and consumed. The property was owned by Col. E.M. SEABROOK and a small [...]

May 26, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) Communicated.                       Mr. Editor:  Heretofore, during the war, the wives and daughters of our poor soldiers from this city have been enabled to obtain, through their needles, a support, in working for the government on clothing, tents, &c.  Of [...]

May 26, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)                     The ladies of Burke county have completed their beautiful and patriotic arrangements at Millen, and are now dispensing their hospitality daily to large numbers of traveling soldiers.  We dropped in a few evenings since and found a well supplied [...]