Thursday, 11th. In the morning issued beef and rations for 5 days. Pontoons gone to the river. Dr. Smith returned and reported John Devlin found in the morning, wounded in bowels and died at 3 P. M. yesterday. Chapman also died. Uncertain in regard to Case. Badly wounded, brave fellow. He told me to tell [...]

Thursday,11th–The Thirty-fifth Iowa received marching orders. A report is that General Burnside with eight thousand troops went on an expedition up the Yazoo river today. Cannonading has been heard on all sides all day. News came that General Banks has Port Hudson surrounded and is now besieging the place.

June 11th. Commenced with pleasant weather, wind from the S. W.; at three thirty A. NI., a squall of wind came up, we having only one anchor down, the starboard one, thought proper to let the good old ship ride the gale out with two, so let go the port anchor; we had no sooner [...]

JUNE 11th.—It appears that the enemy design to attack us. The following is Lee’s dispatch: “CULPEPPER, June 9th, 1863. “To GENERAL S. COOPER. “The enemy crossed the Rappahannock this morning at five o’clock A.M., at the various fords from Beverly to Kelly’s, with a large force of cavalry, accompanied by infantry and artillery. After a [...]

From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd                       JUNE 11TH.–Stayed in camp to-day with the exception of about an hour. The rebs have succeeded in planting a mortar, which has sent a few big shells into our quarters. This sort of practice did not last [...]

June 11, 1863, Clarke County Journal (Alabama)                       A correspondent of the Savannah News, writing from near Jackson, says:                       I saw yesterday and the day before, two hundred and seventy-two Yankee prisoners, who were [...]

June 11, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The Crescent City must present a dreary and doleful appearance. The Picayune says that a general desire is evinced on the part of the members for the commercial community to withdraw from the city for a time. The great streets, Plydras, Tchoupitoulas, and New Levee, where the great Western [...]

June 11, 1863, The New York Herald We give to our readers this morning such details as have come to hand of the late severely contested and sanguinary cavalry fight on the Rappahannock. As the force on the Union side engaged was probably not less than ten thousand men, and as the struggle – hand [...]

June 11, 1863, The Charleston Mercury In our last we mentioned that Hooker, on Friday morning, was transporting his pontoons down to the Rappahannock, at Deep Run, two miles below Fredericksburg, and making a demonstration, as if about to cross at that point. About four o’clock, p.m., under a tremendous fire of artillery, directed towards [...]

June 11, 1863, The New York Herald We give today very full details of the brilliant and successful cavalry fight on the Rappahannock, near Beverly Ford, on Tuesday morning – the results of which we before published – and which put a sudden check upon the enemy intention to invade Maryland and Pennsylvania with a [...]

June 11, 1863, Menphis Daily Appeal (Atlanta, Ga) The arrest of Miss Hozier at Norfolk, with a plan of the fortifications there, and a full statement of the Federal forces and their position, has been published.  The young lady lives a few miles this side of Suffolk, and had been to Norfolk on a visit.  [...]

June 11, 1863, The New York Herald The Cavalry Fight on the Rappahannock. WASHINGTON, June 10, 1863. The cavalry engagement in the vicinity of Beverly Ford, on the Rappahannock (a brief sketch of which we published yesterday), was a desperate hand to hand encounter, both during the advance and retreat of our forces. The enemy’s [...]

Thursday, 11th.—Rained tremendous hard rain late yesterday evening; had to sleep in ditches where water and mud was half-leg deep. Every flash of lightning, the Yanks would shoot at any one who chanced to have his head above the works. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)