Friday, 29th.—Very heavy cannonading from 7 to 8 A. M., along the center. Gunboats came up and shelled the woods in our front; throwing some shells from mortars across the peninsula, but doing little damage. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)
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 However, the work is provided unedited for its historical content and context.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 [...]
Thursday, 28th.—Skirmishing and heavy cannonading all day. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)
May 28.—Hospital day. The wounded cheerful and doing well. I read, distributed books, and talked with them. They are always ready to be amused, or to be instructed. I have never but in one instance had an unpleasant word or look from any whom I endeavoured to treat with kindness in any way. Bible reading [...]
Thursday, 28th–Last night we bivouacked twenty miles east of Vicksburg and remained there till noon, waiting for rations. We then moved on ten miles and went into bivouac for the night. The country is very rough in this part of the state and there are only a few small farms to be seen. Water is [...]
28th. Spent the day in camp as usual. Read May Ballou. Some good things and some silly. In the evening felt quite aguey.
May 28th. At three o’clock this morning hostilities commenced again between the two contending armies, with all its former ferocity, and the loud booming of cannon was in great contrast and bold relief to the low but quick mutterings of numerous volleys of musketry. The rumor of yesterday in regard to several thousand of our [...]
From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd MAY 28TH.–We did not strike out on the war-path again till three P. M. to-day, having spent the time previous in taking a good rest. To-day we have not marched very rapidly, as it has now become necessary to go more slowly in order to feel our way, [...]
MAY 28th.—There is some animation at the polls, this being election day. It is said Mr. Wickham, who for a long time, in the Convention, voted against the secession of Virginia, is leading Mr. Lyons, an original secessionist, and will probably beat him. And Flournoy, an old Whig politician, will probably be elected governor. A [...]
May 28, 1863, Tyler Reporter The idea has been suggested to us that, under present circumstances, it would be wise and safe to organize companies of Minute Men in every portion of the State, and especially in Eastern Texas. Banks’ late raid into Louisiana [...]
May 28, 1863, The Charleston Mercury THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG. LATEST OFFICIAL DESPATCHES. The following despatches, from General PEMBERTON, the commander at Vicksburg, were sent to Jackson, Mississippi, and from thence telegraphed to President DAVIS; VICKSBURG, May 20. – The enemy assaulted our entrenchments yesterday on our centre and left. They were repulsed with heavy [...]
May 28, 1863, Natchez Daily Courier Permit me to call your attention to one deserving your ever ready sympathies. A noble, patriotic, devoted woman, a resident of this city, has lately returned home on a visit to her children, after an absence of two [...]