Sunday, 31st–We camped by the river last night, and early this morning started for Haines’s Bluff. We marched along some fine cornfields. We reached Haines’s Bluff in the afternoon, and went into bivouac to the south of that place. We were as far east as Mechanicsville, forty-two miles from Vicksburg. On this raid we burned [...]
31st. Felt better and got up to breakfast. Cleaned up and rode to water with Thede. Capt. N. has been quite sick for several days, bowel complaint principally. Thede called on him. C. G. came over. Walked a little. Wrote a few lines to Fred. Read the Congregationalist. Chaplain preached in the evening. Frequent thunder [...]
May 31st. At three A. M., mortar vessels below still firing upon the rebel batteries at Port Hudson; at 10 o’clock called all hands to muster on the quarter-deck, and performed Divine service; nothing of importance occurred during the remainder of this day. The weather continues pleasant, and occasional guns were heard at Port Hudson [...]
MAY 31st.—The commissioners, appointed for the purpose, have agreed upon the following schedule of prices for the State of Virginia, under the recent impressment act of Congress; and if a large amount of suppliess be furnished at these prices—which are fifty, sometimes one hundred per cent. lower than the rates private individuals are paying—it will [...]
From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd MAY 31ST.–We were aroused by the bugle call, and in a few minutes on the march again. Halted at noon on a large planta tion. This is a capital place to stop, for the negroes are quite busy baking corn-bread and sweet potatoes for us. We have had [...]
May 31, 1863, The New York Herald The Progress of the Siege of the City. THE BATTLE AND CAPTURE OF JACKSON. JACKSON, Miss., May 14, 1863. IN POSSESSION OF JACKSON. The Union army have undisturbed possession of Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, and the headquarters of the Department of Mississippi and Eastern Louisiana. The federal [...]
May 31, 1863, The New York Herald There appears to be no later reliable news from Vicksburg than that of Monday last, the 25th inst., which we published yesterday. Despatches from various points – Cincinnati, St. Louis and elsewhere – give many vague reports, out of which may be gathered the fact that no news [...]