4th. After usual work, read some in paper. In the afternoon, went for some strawberries for Brother A. B. and ourselves. Had a nice meal of them, 25 cents per quart. Enjoyed them much. Mailed a letter to Melissa from A. B. Offered to write myself.

Middleton, Tenn., June 4, 1863. We made another little change yesterday. The regiment is now guarding the M. C. & R. R. from Grand Junction to Pocahontas. We are in detachments of two companies each. H Company is with mine. We marched 23 miles to make this point yesterday, and arrived at 10 o’clock p.m. [...]

June 4th. Commences with pleasant and calm weather. Slight firing heard, early this morning, at Port Hudson. Nothing worthy of mention occurred during the remainder of this day.

JUNE 4th.—To-day we have characteristic unintelligible dispatches from Mississippi. They say, up to third instant, yester­day, everything is encouraging; but the Memphis papers say Grant’s losses have not been so large as was supposed. Then it is reported that Grant has retired to Grand Gulf. Yet it is expected the town will be stormed in [...]

From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd JUNE 4TH.–We move at last. We left camp as the sun rose, reaching our old quarters in front of the rebel Fort Hill in the afternoon. Glad we are to get here. A great change has taken place during our ten days’ absence. More rifle-pits have been made [...]

June 4, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We have gathered some additional particulars of the recent destructive Yankee raid along the banks of the Combahee. The latest official despatch from Gen. WALKER, dated Green Pond, eleven o’clock Tuesday night, and which was received here on Wednesday morning, conveyed intelligence that the enemy had entirely disappeared. It [...]

June 4, 1863, The New York Herald Up to noon yesterday no advices touching any late movements of the army before Vicksburg had been received by the government. All stories of attacks and repulses of Grant army are totally discredited. It is stated in despatches from Cincinnati yesterday, by way of Cairo, that the base [...]

June 4, 1863, Semi-Weekly News (San Antonio, Texas)                       A short time since, Col. Bankhead ordered a cavalry company to Medina County to arrest conscripts; Castroville was surrounded and about twenty were taken out of about one hundred and fifty in the County; the remainder [...]

June 4, 1863, The New York Herald THE REBEL POSITION IN THE GULF. The rebels are determined to intensify their strength on several, as it were, cardinal points of their so-called confederacy, and one of the principal of these points in Mobile. A large sum of money and a great amount of labor have been [...]

June 4, 1863, The Charleston Mercury LATEST FROM VICKSBURG. JACKSON, May 30. No fighting at Vicksburg. The enemy has quit the storming process, and is going to try the starving. From reliable authority I learn that GRANT is entrenching in parallel lines with our batteries, but out of reach of our guns, and cutting off [...]

June 4, 1863, The New York Herald The great struggle for the Mississippi is now reduced to two points, the capture of which will give to the government the complete control of the great river from its sources to the sea, and the loss of which by the rebellion will be as decisive against it [...]

…a copy of this original paper written by Charley June 4th: “Major General Meade, commanding 5th Corps. General: I have the honor of transmitting to you herewith a copy of a telegram just received from the President respecting sentences of Daily, Magraffe and Harrington. (Signed) C. W. W., A. D. C.” –and Charley had the [...]

Thursday, 4th.—Major Jackson took command of reserve battalion. Two men killed in 36th Georgia. Last night Company F ordered into a very dangerous place by Captain Osborne. All very glad when Jackson superseded him. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)