Friday, 29th–We started on the move early this morning and after marching about ten miles came upon the rebel pickets. We drove them in and forming a line of battle advanced towards them about two miles, our batteries throwing a few shells. But the rebels refused to take a stand and finally withdrew altogether. It [...]

29th. Felt quite feverish in the morning. Afternoon, light attack of ague. Felt miserable all day. Got badly beaten at chess in the morning by Chester. Spent a very restless night. Sore, headache and uneasy every way. Thede very kindly did my work. Col. Kautz went out with 450 men. Aggravating.

The following material contains wording that may be offensive to many in the world of today. However, the work is provided unedited for its historical content and context. Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Lagrange, Tenn., May 29, 1863. ‘Tis becoming fiendishly warm in this latitude again; but the delightfully cool nights of which I wrote you [...]

May 29th. The cessation of hostilities on both sides seems to have, in part, taken place, and our forecastle is not crowded with officers and blue jackets, like on the two previous days, straining their eyes almost out of their sockets in their anxiety to see where our shells and those of our armies fell [...]

MAY 29th.—A dispatch from Gen. Johnston, dated 27th inst., says fighting at Vicksburg had been in progress ever since the 19th instant, and that our troops have been invariably successful in repulsing the assults. Other dispatches say the unburied dead of the enemy, lying in heaps near our fortifications, have produced such an intolerable stench [...]

From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd MAY 29TH.–”The early bird catches the worm.” We tried the truth of that adage this morning, but failed to make the catch. A few graybacks were seen afar off, but we failed to get within range of them. Where, O where, is General Johnston and the grand army [...]

May 29, 1863, The New York Herald THE SIEGE. WASHINGTON, May 28, 1863. The latest information from Vicksburg received by the government is contained in an unofficial despatch from Memphis, dated May 27, which states that two boats from Vicksburg had just reached Memphis. The telegram says he official despatches have been received by these [...]

May 29, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MERCURY.) RICHMOND, May 25. Quite a pleasant and unexpected change from the intolerable heat of last week occurred this morning. The dust is laid, the day is cool and humid – fine weather for marching. PEMBERTON’S despatches to the President are encouraging to outsiders. But a [...]

May 29, 1863, The New York Herald The latest official news from Vicksburg still remains as we first announced it – only up to Friday night at nine o’clock– just a week ago. Several reports from rebel sources and others have reached us since, and have been published in order as they arrived. Vicksburg is [...]

May 29, 1863, The Charleston Mercury IMPORTANT FROM VICKSBURG. RICHMOND, May 28. – An official telegram from General JOHHSTON, dated yesterday, states that General STEVENSON reports that hard fighting has been going on at Vicksburg since Tuesday last with continued success, and that our men are confident of their ability to hold the place, and [...]

May 29, 1863, The Charleston Mercury THE MEDICAL PURVEYOR of Charleston has left at our office, for inspection, a lump of Opium collected from the Garden Poppy, by G.B. FARMER, Esq., from his grounds at Walterboro’. Mr. FARMER has a variety of the Garden Poppy – double and single, and of various colors. His Poppies, [...]

May 29, 1863, The Charleston Mercury ‘They were both killed by the first fire, and died without a struggle. Their bodies were delivered to their friends from Kentucky by order of Gen. BURNSIDE.’ Thus read the telegrams from Sandusky, Ohio, announcing the execution of T.P MCGRAW and WM. CORBIN, who were sentenced to death, we [...]

May 29, 1863, The Charleston Mercury It will be recollected how great, in the beginning of the war, was the anxiety which filled the breast of every patriot in relation to the scarcity of powder in the Confederate States. Every grain was husbanded; each sportsman and farmer brought in his little store, and poured it [...]

May 29, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)                       The German Ladies’ of Savannah are invited to assemble in Concordia Hall School on Wednesday, 3d June, at 4 o’clock in the Afternoon, in order to form an Association for the benefit of those families whose fathers or [...]