May 8, 1863, The New York Herald OUR RICHMOND, VA., DESPATCH. I am able to give you a few items of intelligence which may be of interest, in advance of a detailed history of my experiences in the confederacy. THE ADVANCE OF GENERAL STONEMAN HEARD OF. We received an alarm here on Sunday about Stoneman’s [...]
May 8, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas) We paid over $2000 a day or two since for a lot of printing ink that before the war would have cost $125.
May 8, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) The war upon women–waged only here and there two years ago–is becoming universal. The stubborn fealty, lofty patriotism, and fiery spirit of the women of the South, which ought rather to excite a noble admiration and would do so in a generous foe, only begets persecution from the [...]
May 8, 1863, Natchez Daily Courier, The following very pertinent remarks, from the Little Rock Democrat of a late date, are equally applicable to the doings of “General Starvation” and his piratical invaders further South. The Starvation Policy. “It has been known, for weeks, that the Federals in this State, as well [...]
May 8, 1863, Southern Confederacy (Atlanta, Georgia) The Fort Brown Flag of March 20th gives a detailed account of the capture and release of the renegade Judge Davis. A party of Texas Rangers crossed the Rio Grand, surrounded the house in which Davis and Montgomery were lodged in company with a number of renegades, [...]
May 8, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas) In distributing the cotton cards lately bought by the State, the Military Board have fixed their prices at $10 per pair. As they have enough to go very far towards supplying the demand, it is to be presumed that the price of cotton cards will speedily come [...]
May 8, 1863, The Charleston Mercury FROM THE RAPPAHANNOCK – FURTHER DETAILS OF THE LATE BATTLES. RICHMOND, May 7. – The correspondent of the Richmond Whig gives some further details of the battles of Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg. HOOKER accomplished the capture of Marye’s Heights by a ruse. On Saturday evening he moved several heavy columns [...]
May 8, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi) We infer that something of a panic exists south of us. Droves of negroes, mules &c., have been pressing through our village, northward and eastward bound, for some days. The stampede seems to have frightened many of our own citizens, and we hear of a number who [...]
May 16, 1863, The New York Herald Our Murfreesboro Correspondence. MURFREESBORO, Tenn., May 10, 1863. My despatches of last night will have intimated to you the loss of the forces under Colonel A.D. Streight, sent to destroy the military machine shops and arsenals at Rome, Georgia. The rebel papers received stated the capture positively; but [...]
May 7th. Commences with pleasant weather; at six forty-five A. M., sent the Albatross down the river in search of the Sachem; at 9 A. M., inspected crew at quarters; at two P. M., the Albatross came up the river and made fast inshore ahead of us; at two forty P. M., the Sachem came [...]
Thursday, 7th.—Reported Federals just across the river, and that General Beauregard had arrived at Vicksburg. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)
Thursday, 7th–One hundred and fifty prisoners captured at Grand Gulf were taken past here this morning; they all looked quite downhearted. A large train of provisions passed here for the army below. The roads are drying fast, which is making the hauling and marching better. The boys are all anxious to leave this place and [...]
7th. Weather still bad. After breakfast ordered to the river. No chance for us today to cross. By orders of Col. Kautz, I went to the Div. train and helped myself to one day’s rations. Lt. crossed over. Robinson, Drake and I got permission to swim our horses and cross. Saddled and went round by [...]
Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Lagrange, Tenn., May 7, 1863. Isn’t the Grierson “raid” glorious? Two other expeditions started from this point and were gone respectively five and ten days each. Although they made good long marches and took about 40 prisoners and 500 animals, still we forget them in looking after Grierson. We have the [...]
From May 16, 1863, Harper’s Weekly Click on map for larger image (300 kbytes)
MAY 7th.—A scout came in to-day with the vexatious intelligence that a body of hostile cavalry is still in Louisa County. And later in the day we have information that the Mattapony bridge was burned last night! Thus again is communication interrupted between Gen. Lee and the city! Our wounded cannot be brought to the [...]
From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd MAY 7TH.–Our company detailed and reported this morning at headquarters for picket duty, but not being needed, returned to camp. Were somewhat disappointed, for we preferred a day on picket by way of change. Pickets are the eyes of the army and the terror of those who live [...]
May 7, 1863, The New York Herald Our couriers from Hooker’s army bring the details of movements on the Rappahannock down to Monday night as relates to the main army, and to Tuesday morning at two o’clock in relation to the detachment under General Sedgwick. The news from General Sedgwick’s detachment is less encouraging at [...]
May 7, 1863, Mobile Register And Advertiser At Brownsville, Texas, molasses is selling at fifty cents per gallon. Shoes, of good make, eighteen dollars per dozen. Hats, at the same prices. Domestics, twenty cents per yard. Two hundred barrels of flour sold at auction at ten dollars and fifty cents per barrel.
May 7, 1863, The New York Herald Army of the West. General Hartsuff has received an appointment under General Burnside, and has left Washington for his new seat of military labors. He has to some extent recovered from the wounds he received at Antietam – enough to enable him to resume active duties – therefore [...]
May 7, 1863, The New York Herald Our Special Reports from the Battle Field. OPERATIONS ON SUNDAY. After the disaster to our right wing on Saturday and the manifestation the rebels made of their position and intentions, Gen. Hooker determined upon a radical change of front. Hitherto, as the reader has seen, his line faced [...]
May 7, 1863, The New York Herald Our Special Reports from the Battle Field. CORRESPONDENCE OF MR. L.W. BUCKINGHAM. May 3, 1863. I shall not attempt to chronicle the disgraceful affair of a part of the Eleventh corps (formerly Sigel), till I am able to learn full particulars and send you a diagram of the [...]
May 8, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We make up from our Richmond exchanges of Tuesday a summary of such additional intelligence of the recent movements of the campaign in Virginia as had been received up to Monday night: THE BATTLE. The scene of the battle is in Spotsylvania county, between the Wilderness and Chancellorsville. The [...]
May 7, 1863, Semi-Weekly News (San Antonio, Texas) (Communicated.) Why is it, while our attention is so often called to our hospitals in Galveston, in Arkansas and in Virginia, that nothing is said or done for our own sick and suffering soldiers here at home? Why should they be kept in “durance vile,” in [...]
May 7, 1863, Semi-Weekly News (San Antonio, Texas) The Knoxville Register learns, through a letter from a lady living near Murfreesboro‘, that the vandals are committing terrible excesses in Tennessee. They are turning women and children out of their houses without food or shelter. They had ravished four girls of good respectability in society, [...]