From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd MAY 21ST.–We were relieved this morning before daylight, and slipped back to our camp as quietly as we could. The rifle pits where we watched were pretty close to the enemy, and we had to note every movement made by them. If they put their heads above their [...]
May THURSDAY 21, 1863 I found my little friend George easily influenced, and willing to leave this morn if I said so. I am restless I cant account for, he started early. Shallie and I went back to Memphis. God bless Geo, and grant him a safe & speedy trip to dear Gratz.
May 21, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We make some interesting extracts from a sketch of the late battles on the Rappahannock, communicated to the Columbia Carolinian by a correspondent in the army: Next morning early the firing was resumed. Our infantry began to press forward in earnest, and our artillery, which had succeeded in getting [...]
May 21, 1863, The Charleston Mercury From the data furnished from the best informed sources, the Richmond Enquirer is enabled to give a fair estimate of our actual losses in the late battles of the Rappahannock. The estimate presents a total of 7,500 killed, wounded, and missing, subdivided as follows: Killed………………………1,000 Wounded………………….4,900 Prisoners…………………..1,600 Total………………………..7,500 In [...]
May 21, 1863, The Charleston Mercury From a gentleman just arrived from Jackson, the Mobile Tribune learns some points of interest not exactly in the nature of the latest news, but facts which enable the reader to form just conclusions in reference to matters in that district. That a grand effort to reduce Vicksburg would [...]
May 21, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) Miss Fanny C. James, daughter of Mr. John James, of Baltimore, has been arrested in that city and committed to the Baltimore jail to be tried by the civil authorities under the treason act of Maryland, under the charge of giving aid and comfort to the rebels, in [...]
May 21, 1863, The New York Herald From all the rumors which reach us today it would seem that the position of general Grant is not quite as secure as his recent occupation of the capital of Mississippi, after a succession of victories at Raymond, Mississippi Springs, and Jackson itself, might lead us to suppose [...]
May 21, 1863, The Ranchero (Corpus Christi, Texas) The State Military Board have purchased several thousand pairs of Cotton Cards, which have been apportioned to the counties on the basis of the scholastic census. The price is ten dollars per pair, in currency, at Austin, payable on delivery. It is required that the counties [...]
May 21, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) The following is a copy of the letter to Miss James, of Baltimore, intercepted by the Federals, and upon which she is imprisoned in the Baltimore jail: Richmond, Va., March 15, } Tuesday Noon. } My Dear Fannie:–Your letters have just been received, and the pleasure it [...]
May 21, 1863, Semi-Weekly News (San Antonio, Texas) Notice. The County commissioners of Bexar Co. during the absence of the Chief Justice, will attend at the Clerk’s Office on Friday, May 29th, and Wednesday, June 3d, 1863, and at such other times as may be necessary, to take the affidavits of soldiers wifes and [...]
May 21, 1863, Charleston Mercury We recollect the silk excitement of twenty odd years ago, which, under the stimulus of Yankeeizing speculation, was turned into the murus multicaulis mania, the unlucky consequence of which brought discredit upon the really laudable enterprise in which it originated. We had believed that the silk culture in the [...]
May 21, 1863, Nashville Dispatch There has been a pretty heavy emigration from Middle Tennessee during the past three or four months, mainly to the Western States. These people go to seek homes where they hope to be free from the annoyances inseparably connected with a state of war, like that of which Tennessee [...]
Wednesday, 20th.—Heavy cannonading all day; sharpshooters very annoying indeed; keep up continual firing; our boys not allowed to return the fire on account of lack of ammunition. Companies A and F put in reserve battalion; pretty heavy firing along the river. About 7 P. M., Federals formed and fired one volley, raising the yell as [...]
May 20th.—I feel depressed to-night. Army news from the South bad. General Pemberton has been repulsed between Jackson and Vicksburg. General Johnston is there; I hope, by the mercy of God, he may be able to keep the enemy out of Vicksburg. Besides the depressing news, the day has been distressing in the hospital—so much [...]
May 20th. We remained here until this date having the finest of times, when orders were received to pack up and report to the regiment at Fort Marshall. Orders having been received for the regiment to report to General Robert H. Milroy at Winchester, Virginia.
Wednesday, 20th – This morning found us going up the river, when about 10 o’clock we landed three miles below Vicksburg. The rebels commenced throwing shells our way and we dropped down the river to a point six miles below the city. But at 4 o’clock we returned to the place we had reached in [...]
20th. After breakfast Mike and I took out the horses to graze. Went with Co. G. Took a book along to read, “The Slave Power,” by Cairnes. Very sensible. Got dinner at a house. Avoided the order by having dinner on the porch. Returned about 3 P. M. Mike got a chicken. An excellent letter [...]
May 20th. Another pleasant day dawns upon a sleeping world; at seven thirty A. M. finished coaling ship; have been engaged at it since yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon, and working all night received some seventy-three or seventy-five tons on board; at ten thirty A. M. the U. S. steam ram Gen. Price [...]
May WEDNESDAY 20, 1863 Geo Atchison will remain with us a day or two. I love him poor low one—he seems lost. I am very uneasy about him and will prepare his things to night and infuence him to leave in the morning.1 to join the Confederate army.
MAY 20th.—Reports from the West say we lost 3000 and the enemy 6000 men in the battle of the 15th inst., when Pemberton fell back over the Black River. Our forces numbered only 12,000, Grant’s three times that number. Something decisive must occur before Vicksburg in a few days. Mr. J. W. Henry writes from [...]
From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd MAY 20TH.–When I awoke this morning I offered thanks to God that my life had been spared thus far. We slept on our arms–something unusual. This day has been busily spent in making cautious advances toward the works of the enemy, and, although our progress seems to have [...]
May 20, 1863, Charleston Mercury A correspondent of the Mobile Advertiser, writing from Shelbyville, says: An officer in General Bragg’s army had obtained a short leave of absence to permit him to go home and attend to personal interests demanding his presence. Before his time of absence had expired he requested a further leave [...]
May 20, 1863, The New York Herald Jackson is a city of Mississippi, of which State it is the capital. It is situated in Hinds county, and has heretofore been a very thriving place. It is located on the right or western bank of the Pearl river, at the terminus of the Vicksburg and Jackson [...]
May 20, 1863, The New York Herald The Pearl river, which runs through nearly one half of the State of Mississippi, rises in Winston county, in the northeast central part of the State, and flows in a southwesterly direction to the city of Jackson. Here it makes a slight deviation from its course, and flows [...]
May 20, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MERCURY.) RICHMOND, Saturday, May 16. So far as I can learn, the fall of Jackson is based on a private telegram received yesterday from Mobile. The wires to that point have been cut, and the War Department professes ignorance. The greatest apprehensions are caused by the [...]