Wed., 10th. Up at three A. M. and on to the river. Forded and found rations for men and horses. Remained till noon. Talk of recrossing. Fresh troops on hand. Finally went back to camp. Took a nap and got rested–pretty tired.
Wednesday, 10th–The cool morning was followed by a rain all day ending at dark in a heavy windstorm. Companies E and D of the Eleventh Iowa worked all last night in cutting a road through the canebrakes to the rebels’ breastworks. Skirmishing has been going on all day.
June 10th. Commenced with pleasant but warm weather. Thin clothing is the order of the day. At a little before daylight, the mortar vessels of lower fleet, engaging the rebel batteries; at nine A. M., inspected crew at quarters; at about this hour, great guns were fired in and in the rear of Port Hudson. [...]
JUNE 10th.—We have news of a fight on the Rappahannock yesterday, above Fredericksburg, the enemy having crossed again. They were driven back. There are also reports from Vicksburg, which still holds out. Accounts say that Grant has lost 40,000 men so far. Where Johnston is, we have no knowledge; but in one of his recent [...]
From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd JUNE 10TH.–The heat of the sun increases, and we must improve our quarters. Accordingly a part of the day has been spent in cutting cane and building bunks with it on the side of the hill. Such improvements protect us better from the sun. Last night I sat [...]
June 10th, 1863.—Dr. English came today and with him Captain John Yates Beall, the soldier he had written about. Captain Beall is young and very good-looking. He has the front room up stairs, where he can be cool and we have our orders to make no noise. He must not talk and he has to [...]
June 10, 1863, Menphis Daily Appeal (Atlanta, Ga) A gentleman belonging to the service, now absent from his command on account of wounds received in a late battle, twenty-five years of age, fair personal attractions and moderate income, wishes to make the acquaintance of a young lady with a view to matrimony. The young lady [...]
June 10, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser The fiends, under Cornyn, developed, as usual, the absence of all manly instincts in their depredations on women. For instance: They robbed a poor old lady of [...]
June 10, 1863, The New York Herald A despatch from Murfreesboro’ dated yesterday, says that a lady who had just arrived from Shelbyville reports the surrender of Vicksburg with its entire garrison of 12,000 men. Later arrivals at the same place repeat the rumor, and it was stated that some rebel papers (names nor locations [...]
June 10, 1863, Southern Banner (Athens, Georgia) Rev. H. B. Pratt Chaplain of the Sixty-third North Carolina, writes to the N. C. Presbyterian: Allow me to make another suggestion.–Down in these swamp lands of Eastern North Carolina, we find an innumerable multitude of what [...]
June 10, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser We have before us a letter written by a lady of this State to her husband, who is now in prison for the grave offense of taking up arms against his own State. This noble woman writes in [...]
June 10, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser We have been requested by a correspondent to correct an error which occurred in our account of the young lady who piloted Gen. Forrest to a ford on Black Creek in his pursuit of the Yankee marauders. It [...]
June 10, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) We have just seen a gentleman from the neighborhood of Edward’s Depot, who informs us that the vandals are making a clean sweep of everything in that vicinity. They have burnt every gin and mill, and in many [...]
June 10, 1863, The New York Herald Our Walnut Hills Correspondence. HEADQUARTERS, SEVENTEENTH (McPHERSON’S) ARMY CORPS, WALNUT HILLS, REAR OF VICKSBURG, May 22, 1863. For several days the disposition of the troops designed for the reduction of Vicksburg has been going on with unceasing energy. The peculiar formation of the country in this vicinity makes [...]
June 10, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) The following rules are enforced by the officers of the Unites States Government, in regard to letters offered for transmission under flag of truce by way of City Point: [...]
June 10, 1863, The New York Herald Our Vicksburg Correspondence. NEAR VICKSBURG, May 29, 1863. The movements on the part of the Union army have been very quiet for the last three days. Cannonading at intervals during the day, and constant and continual firing by our skirmishers whenever any attempt is made to work the [...]
June 10, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser From the Staunton Spectator. Brig. Gen. Roberts came into Weston week before last, after our forces under Gen. Imboden has passed through and commenced a series of tyrannical acts alone worthy of abolition commanders. [...]
June 10, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) An order from the Federal War Department directs that within the States of Tennessee and Mississippi, wherever the Federals have the rule, all citizens shall be registered in three classes: First, avowed enemies; second, neutral foreigners; third, loyal [...]
June 10, 1863, The New York Herald From all the information in our possession, from Union and from rebel sources, we consider the fall of Vicksburg inevitable, that there is no earthly chance of escape for it, and that in all probability before the expiration of the present week we shall have the news of [...]
June 10, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois) Deputy Sheriff Stewart and officer Guill were sent for yesterday to suppress a disturbance at Kingston Mines, which bid fare to amount to considerable of a riot. There being a strike at the mines for higher wages, [...]
Wednesday, 10th.—Rained hard all day; man in Company E. mortally wounded. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)