12th. Henry Drake quite bad with abscess on his knee. Rob and I sat up with him. Wrote a line home and to Fannie.

Friday, 12th–Our brigade receiving orders, moved out about a mile and again went into camp in a large hollow; we fixed up bunks and made a nice camp. I was out last night again with a large detail from our brigade digging rifle pits, working all night with rifle in one hand and pick in [...]

June 12th. At one thirty A. M., steamer Laurel Hill came down from Natchez, with despatches. Occasional artillery firing, also navy and army mortars bombarding the batteries of Port Hudson—rebels reply with a large rifle; at eight A. M., heavy musketry and artillery firing in rear of Port Hudson. Steamer Bee, despatch boat, came down [...]

JUNE 12th.—A beautiful, bright warm summer day—and yet a little somber. The surprise of Stuart, on the Rappahannock, has chilled every heart, notwithstanding it does not appear that we lost more than the enemy in the encounter. The question is on every tongue—have our generals relaxed in vigilance? If so, sad is the prospect! But [...]

From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd                       JUNE 12TH.–We expect to be paid off soon, as the pay-rolls are now being made out. Money cannot do us much good here among the hills, but we can send it home. Many a family is dependent [...]

June 12th, 1863.—Our patient, the newest one, likes his quarters very much. Father and Mother wait on him themselves, they are so afraid something may go wrong. The piano is kept closed and Mattie’s poodle has been banished pro tem. Susan Bradford is 17 years old when this entry was made.

June 12, 1863, Corinth Chanticleer (Corinth, Ms)                       A corporal of the 20th New York regiment lately gave birth to an infant.  It was not until quite recently that the sex of the corporal was discovered.  Her husband is a sergeant in the regiment.  She [...]

June 12, 1863, Corinth Chanticleer (Corinth, Ms)                       The new and handsome barracks which the soldiers have built for themselves are a great improvement on tents, and add much to the appearance of the city.  Each camp being a town corporate, surrounding the city proper.  [...]

June 12, 1863, American Citizen (Canton, Mississippi) General Hospital, Canton, Miss.} May 30, 1863.                        } Mr. Editor:                       Since the evacuation of Jackson and severe marching of the few succeeding days, it has been [...]

June 12, 1863, Corinth Chanticleer (Corinth, Ms)                       Our officers are becoming alive to the importance of distinguishing between Union men and rebels, and every man in the district is required to take the oath of allegiance or register themselves as enemies of the United [...]

June 12, 1863, The New York Herald Our latest advices from Vicksburg are to the 8th inst. They come from General Grant himself to official persons in Washington. Up to that date the siege was progressing satisfactorily. On the 4th inst. General Grant and General Banks were in communication, Port Hudson at that time, which [...]

June 12, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Day by day the track of the destroyer becomes broader. Two-thirds of Virginia, two-thirds of Tennessee, the coasts of North and South Carolina, part of Georgia, nearly all of Florida, Northern Mississippi, Western and Southern Louisiana, a great part of Arkansas and Missouri, have already been laid waste, and [...]

June 12, 1863, Corinth Chanticleer (Corinth, Ms)                       A female, apparently very ill, was relieved by a family in Chicago, a few days since, and in accounting for her appearance in that city, stated that her name was Anna Lilleybridge of Detroit, and that her [...]

June 12, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)                       Several families from St. Augustine, Fla., arrived in this city on Wednesday night, by flag of truce via Hilton Head and Pocotaligo, among them Mrs. Smith, the mother of Gen. Kirby Smith, Mrs. B. A. Putnam, wife of [...]

June 12, 1863, Corinth Chanticleer (Corinth, Ms)                       Last Sunday we visited the camp of the First Alabama Negro regiment, and were highly gratified with the appearance of the camp, and the soldierly looking men.  We look for big things from those hitherto unfortunate men, [...]

June 12, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The Richmond Examiner, in alluding to the condition of our currency at the present time, says that it is believed with apparent reason to be now at the worst; that is to say, the greatest amount of it that has ever been, and will ever be, outstanding, is in [...]

June 12, 1863, Corinth Chanticleer (Corinth, Ms)                       An old maid, who has her eyes a little sideways on matrimony, says:  “The curse of this war is, that it will make so many widows, that will be so fierce to get married and who know [...]

June 12, 1863, Corinth Chanticleer (Corinth, Ms) Camp 1st Ala. Loyal Inft. Near Corinth, Miss. June 8th, 1863.                       Mr. Editor:–You ask for information about the colored regiment, how we get along, and what we think of it.  Well, I must say that with all [...]

June 12, 1863, Corinth Chanticleer (Corinth, Ms)                       There is nothing that tells with such striking examples the difference between the northern and southern armies,–their habits–and mode of living, than the difference in their military posts, and the vast change which they undergo after falling [...]

June 12, 1863, The New York Herald Its Defences Described by a Confederate Prisoner. We have received the following account of the defences of Port Hudson, of the strength of its garrison and its means generally to resist the efforts now being made to reduce it from a young Kentuckian who happened to be in [...]

June 12, 1863, The New York Herald Sights and Scenes Along the Route – Inside View of the South, &c. MR. W. YOUNG’S LETTER. ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, June 9, 1863. SCENES IN AND ABOUT URBANNA. In Urbanna, on the south side of the Rappahannock, where Kilpatrick’s cavalry took steam transports for the opposite shore [...]

June 12, 1863, The New York Herald Ever since there have been military schools at which generals are professedly made there have been discussions as to whether generals could be made anywhere else. Against the fact that there were great generals before there were military academies the believers in the latter do not deign to [...]

June 12, 1863, The Charleston Mercury THE BATTLE OF BRANDY STATION. RICHMOND, June 11. The battle of Tuesday occurred at Brandy Station, on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, five miles beyond Culpeper C. H. The accounts, so far, are very conflicting; but there seems to be no doubt that the attack of the enemy was [...]

June 12, 1863, American Citizen (Canton, Mississippi)                       We will pay eight cents per pound for all clean white linen or cotton rags, delivered at this office.  Money will neither make nor buy paper; rags alone will do.  If our friends will bring in the [...]