9th. Awakened at three A. M. Got coffee for breakfast, baked potatoes, but didn’t get done in time. Marched on at daylight. Met the 2nd Tenn. at Capt. West’s,[1] they had crossed and captured 7 or 8 pickets on Mills Springs road. Co. H in advance. Soon came upon the pickets and kept skirmishing for [...]
Tuesday, 9th–The weather away down south in Dixie is getting quite warm. The soldiers are all in good health and fine spirits. Times are quite lively, with good news from all directions around Vicksburg. Our mortar boats are throwing shells into town day and night.[1] [1] We were all confident that Pemberton would soon be [...]
June 9th, Tuesday. My dear Brother, who is always seeking to make somebody happy, arranged a dinner-party at the lake for us Saturday. There was quite a number of us, as, besides ourselves and the five children, we had Mrs. Price and her children, Mrs. Bull, and three nurses. . . . There are no [...]
June 9th. Commences with calm and warm weather. Mortar vessels bombarding batteries at Port Hudson from one thirty to four A. M. Between the hours of ten and twelve o’clock M., a cavalry detachment made a reconnoissance to left bank of land. The bombardment of Port Hudson by our army and navy continued, with slight [...]
JUNE 9th.—There is rumor that the President has received bad news from the West. This may be without foundation; but it is a little strange that we are not in receipt of authentic accounts of transactions there. Time, however, will reveal all things. Lee is “marching on,” Northward, utterly regardless of the demonstrations of Hooker [...]
From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd JUNE 9TH.–To-day our regiment was at the front. The rebels kept pretty quiet; they are learning to behave very well. In fact they might as well lie low and save their powder. Our men have been employed digging a ditch leading up to Fort Hill, when they intend [...]
June 9, 1863, Menphis Daily Appeal (Atlanta, Ga) A letter in a Northern paper says: “One of the houses destroyed by the Queen of the West on her trip down the Mississippi belonged to an old gentleman, who, with his two sons and daughters, [...]
June 9, 1863, The New York Herald Visit to the Fifth Corps Hospital and the Camp of Sykes’ Regulars. MR. W. BUCKINGHAM’S LETTER. NEAR STAFFORD COURT HOUSE, Va., June 4, 1863. LOCATION OF THE HOSPITAL. I accidentally became acquainted with Major Augustus M. Clark the other day, who is the surgeon in charge of the [...]
June 9, 1863, The New York Herald Our news from the Army of the Rappahannock confirms the statement that the rebels still occupy Fredericksburg. Reports received in Washington yesterday say that the First Division of the Sixth army corps were still in position on the south bank of the river which they occupied on Friday. [...]
June 9, 1863, The Charleston Mercury (From Blackwood’sMagazine, for January.) In visiting the headquarters of the Confederate Generals, but particularly those of General Lee, any one accustomed to see European armies in the field cannot fail to be struck with the great absence of all the pomp and circumstance of war in and around their [...]
June 9, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) Ed. Enquirer: The particulars of this horrible murder we hasten to lay before your readers. The awful deed was committed at midnight, on Ashley’s Farm, near Mount Hebron Church. Hear the confession of the dastardly wretch: It [...]
June 9, 1863, The Charleston Mercury THE NEWS FROM RICHMOND. RICHMOND, June 8. The Yankees who crossed the Rappahannock advanced on Saturday to take possession of Hamilton’s Crossing, supposing that our forces had moved from that vicinity. When they had approached within a mile and a half of the railroad, two or three of our [...]
June 9, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) We learn that some enterprising gentlemen from Georgia went to Tennessee, a short time ago, and purchased a paper mill that was exposed to the enemy, and succeeded in removing its machinery just before a raid of [...]
Tuesday, 9th.—Cannonading nearly all night around the lines. Siege continues about as usual. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)
June 9th, 1863.—The churches are a great resort for those who have no caves. People fancy they are not shelled so much, and they are substantial and the pews good to sleep in. We had to leave this house last night, they were shelling our quarter so heavily. The night before, Martha forsook the cellar [...]