Siege of Vicksburg. Wednesday, 27th.—11 A. M. Four gunboats steamed up and commenced shelling at us, which was responded to by our siege guns, at the same time a gunboat attempted to pass the batteries from above but was sunk in about fifteen minutes under the Rebel guns. It was reported that this was the [...]
27th.—The news from Vicksburg by the morning’s papers is very delightful, if authentic. We pause for confirmation of it. The young people among the villagers and refugees have been amusing themselves, during the past two evenings, with tableaux. I am too old to enjoy such things in these troubled times, but one picture I regretted [...]
Wednesday, 27th–Our brigade, with four others, all under the command of General Blair, left this morning for Benton’s Crossroads. The expedition is to keep General Johnston from coming in to reinforce the rebels at Vicksburg. Cannonading and picket firing opened up early this morning. Our army, by sapping and mining after night, is gradually working [...]
27th. In the morning Rob went over to town with his Charlie. I believe he has said that he would prefer to give up a hope in Heaven rather than the horse. In the afternoon I took my boots over to town to get them repaired. Went for them in the evening.
May 27th. At daylight this morning it was apparent to all who heard the heavy firing of artillery, and rapid discharges of musketry, that an attack had been made by our forces upon the enemy’s works. The firing continued without intermission during the whole forenoon of this day. During the afternoon, occasionally heavy firing of [...]
From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd MAY 27TH.–It was three o’clock this morning before we camped. A tiresome tramp we have had, and after halting, but a few minutes elapsed before we were fast asleep. We were up, however, with the sun, took breakfast and were on the march again at eight o’clock. We [...]
MAY 27th.—Gen. Beauregard’s statement of the number of his troops, after 10,000 had been ordered to Mississippi, with urgent appeals for the order to be countermanded, came back from the President today, to whom it had been referred by Mr. Secretary Seddon. The President indorsed, characteristically, that the statement did not agree in numbers with [...]
May 27, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser In the “Home Department” of the New Orleans True Delta, of a recent date, we find the following account of the efforts now being made to prevent the schoolmistresses of New Orleans from teaching the young ideas rebelward. [...]
May 27, 1863, The New York Herald Grant’s three weeks’ brilliant campaign against Vicksburg proves him to be a general of no common order. He is the only Union general now in the field the celerity of whose operations can bear a comparison with the achievements of Napoleon in his campaign in Italy and Germany. [...]
May 27, 1863, Galveston Weekly News Passengers by the Central train yesterday report that the leading thoroughfares of travel in the country are filled with refugees from Louisiana, on their way to some place where they can find corn plenty and Yankees scarce. A [...]
May 27, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) Augusta, May 23, 1863. Mr. Editor:–Having read in the morning papers of this day, May 23d, a set of resolutions drawn up and signed by J. N. Taliaferro, Capt. and Edward Clayton, Secretary, of the “gallant Walker Light [...]
May 27, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Our readers will remember that, some four years ago, it was proposed, in the City Council, to sell two large lots on South Bay, purchased during the administration of Mr. MILES, with a view to the extension of the Battery Garden westward towards Ashley River. Although at first the [...]
May 27, 1863, The Charleston Mercury NEWS FROM THE WEST. TULLAHOMA, May 25. – All is quiet in front. The Nashville Union of May 22d contains Cairo dates of the 20th. Col. CLANTON had made a raid towards Little Rock, destroying 200,000 bushels of corn, several large buildings filled with commissary stores, and many grist [...]
May 27, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, contains about 10,000 inhabitants, and is situated on Pearl River, about forty-six miles east of Vicksburg, and about two hundred miles north of New Orleans. The Southern Mississippi Railroad, from Vicksburg to Meridian, Miss., and the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad to [...]
May 27, 1863, The New York Herald SUCCESS OF ADMIRAL PORTER’S EXPEDITION UP THE YAZOO. SKETCH OF YAZOO CITY AND VICINITY. Yazoo City is a post village of Yazoo county, Mississippi, of which county it is the capital. At one time it was a very flourishing place for a Southern inland village, its trade arising [...]
May 27, 1863, The New York Herald OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. OPELOUSAS, La., May 2, 1863. I shall now attempt to give you some slight account of our operations from Brashear City to this place. We left Brashear City April 11. The advance was under General Weitzel, who, after starting up the bay three miles to [...]
May 27, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We have heard of some recent instances of straggling on the part of Confederate troops, while on their way to the post of danger, which call for the reprobation of the people, and punishment, prompt and stern, from the military authorities. In the present position of affairs, the country [...]
May 27, 1863, The New York Herald There is no official account as yet of the capture of Vicksburg. The latest reliable news is up to Friday evening, the whole details of which we have already published. At the time Vicksburg was not taken. All the facts in connection with the battles fought during the [...]
May 27, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (Correspondence of the Mobile Advertiser.) JACKSON, May 19. – I sit down to write you relative to the stirring events of the last ten days, but without any knowledge of how or when I will be enabled to forward my letter, but trust to good luck. FROM MOBILE TO [...]
May 27, 1863, The New York Herald The Correspondence of Mr. E.L. Maynard. HEADQUARTERS, SECOND BRIGADE, SECOND CAVALRY DIVISION, ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE, HELENA, Ark., May 15, 1863. I informed your readers in my last letter that the authorities had determined to break up the guerilla bands that have caused us so much trouble of [...]