Monday, 1st–We lay over here below Haines’s Bluff all day, the boys being very tired after their long march. We ran out of provisions last night and could not draw any today. Some of the boys went out into the country to see what they could forage. We heard the roar of cannon at Vicksburg [...]
June 1.—L. and B. went up to Mr. Marye’s near Fredericksburg to-day, to visit their brother’s grave. They took flowers with which to adorn it. It is a sweet, though sad office, to plant flowers on a Christian’s grave. They saw my sister, who is there, nursing her wounded son. News from Vicksburg cheering.
Monday, 1st. Ration day. After breakfast and morning work, we went at it. Hereafter to have fresh beef every day. Pontoon train arrived in P. M. indicating a forward move. Talk of pay; order reducing of baggage to 30 Ib. Capt. Nettleton sick. Commenced a letter to Fannie.
June 1st. Commences calm and pleasant; firing of musketry this morning heard at Port Hudson; in fact no day has passed since the investment of this rebel stronghold and siege of same commenced, but what more or less bombarding of it has been going on by our army and naval forces, and skirmishing with their [...]
JUNE 1st.—Nothing decisive from Vicksburg. It is said Northern papers have been received, of the 29th May, stating that their Gen. Grant had been killed, and Vicksburg (though at first pre maturely announced) captured. We are not ready to believe the latter announcement. Mr. Lyons has been beaten for Congress by Mr. Wickham. It is [...]
From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd JUNE 1ST.–We stayed in camp all day, much to the enjoyment of the boys. Sergeant Hoover and I got a horse and mule, and rode down to Chickasaw Bayou, where the supplies for our army around Vicksburg are received. I have complained a little of being overmarched, but [...]
June 1, 1863, The New York Herald THE BOMBARDMENT OF VICKSBURG. Correspondence of Mr. A.H. Bodman. NEAR VICKSBURG, May 22, 1863. AROUND THE REBEL WORKS. This is the fourth day the army of General Grant has lain around the intrenchments of Vicksburg. Within that time there have been daily battles and continual cannonade. At least [...]
June 1, 1863, The Charleston Mercury IMPORTANT FROM THE RAPPAHANNOCK. RICHMOND, May 30. The Fredericksburg correspondent of the Examiner says that the indications and intelligence from the enemy’s camps on the Rappahannock, favor the conclusion that the Yankee forces are evacuating the position they have so long held in Stafford county, but their destination is [...]
June 1, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Our telegrams inform us that GRANT, after making seven bloody but fruitless assaults upon our entrenched positions at Vicksburg, has gone to […..] in the rear of the Hilled City. This says the Mobile Advertiser, means regular siege operations and an attempt to starve a garrison that he cannot [...]
June 1, 1863, Charleston Mercury With deep regret we announce the destruction, by fire, on the night of the 25th inst., of the paper mill of Messrs. John W. Grady & Co., near this place. The above mill was used exclusively for the manufacture [...]
June 1, 1863, The New York Herald A despatch received at the Navy Department yesterday from Admiral Porter, near Vicksburg, reports that in the recent attack at Haines’ Bluff three powerful steamers and a ram were destroyed at Yazoo City. The ram was a monster, three hundred and ten feet long, seventy feet beam, to [...]