15th. Moved out at 2 A. M. Mistake in road and went several miles out of way. Morgan 8 hours ahead. Passed through several little towns near Cincinnati. People out with provisions, very warm. Dinner at Batavia. Passed through Williamsburgh and camped at Sardinia. People out with baskets and loads of provisions. Bridge burning continues.

15th. Passed the day much as the other hot days, doing little or nothing. Read some and lay around some. Tried to get some peaches for Henry. Found none, got candy and nuts. Had a very good nap. Sent out letters. The Col. got rations over from town and we issued in double quick time. [...]

Monday, 15th–Our brigade is all broken up, most of it being on picket duty facing Johnston’s army and acting as a reserve, and doing police duty between the two lines of battle. Johnston is reported to be out on the Big Black river with about ten thousand men, in an attempt to get into Vicksburg, [...]

June 15th. At 1 o’clock A. M. the mortars of the army and navy firing into Port Hudson; at two forty-five A. M. the mortars of lower fleet ceased bombardment. From this time up to four A. M. brisk firing of musketry—the rebels replying with two guns; at two thirty P. M. got up steam; [...]

From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd JUNE 15TH.–Our regiment went into the rifle-pits again before daylight, at which time the din of musketry and cannonading from both sides had begun, and will cease only when darkness covers the earth. We are now so close to Fort Hill that a hard tack was tossed into [...]

JUNE 15th.—The enemy have abandoned the vicinity of Fredericksburg, falling back across the river, and probably retiring toward Alexandria, or else they have taken to their transports, and intend making another effort to capture Richmond. It is rumored that Gen. Ewell has taken Winchester ; but this, I think, is at least premature. Certainly the [...]

June 15, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)                       Owing to a failure in our regular supply of paper, we are compelled for a day or two to issue the Republican on a half sheet.  We hope to be righted up during the week, and even to [...]

June 15, 1863, The New York Herald About two years ago General Scott started grand army of the United States “on its march southward, by way of Virginia, to occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government,” and to take care that […..] laws of the Union should be faithfully executed in [...]

June 15, 1863, The Charleston Mercury LATEST FROM THE WEST – THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG. JACKSON, June 12. – An officer who left Vicksburg on the night of Wednesday, the 10th, reports all as working well. The garrison is in fine spirits, and well supplied with provisions. So far but little damage has been done [...]

June 15, 1863, Menphis Daily Appeal (Atlanta, Ga) From the Savannah News.                       We have announced before that Gen. Hunter, the Federal commander at Hilton Head, had ordered that all the citizens of St. Augustine who sympathized with the South, or who had relatives in [...]

June 15, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The Richmond papers bring us accounts of the great cavalry fight in Culpeper County, Va., last Tuesday, but no two of them agree as to the precise result. All, however, seem to concur in the opinion that our forces were surprised, that the fight was protracted and bloody, and [...]

June 15, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)                       We have succeeded in reorganizing our corps of army reporters, and shall hereafter be supplied regularly with the latest and most reliable news from every important division of the army, except that in Mississippi, where correspondents are not [...]

June 15, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The details of the fighting which preceded the investment of Vicksburg are coming to light. A participant in the recent battle of Baker’s Creek furnishes to the Appeal the annexed account of the affair, which is the first connected narrative yet published from a Southern source. The writer dates [...]

June 15, 1863, Menphis Daily Appeal (Atlanta, Ga)                       You can very materially assist the Government of your choice in its struggle against the Northern despotism.                       Every house, cowshed or other building, that has [...]

June 15, 1863, The Charleston Mercury THE FIRING from our battery on the lower extremity of Morris Island against the Yankee works on Folly Island, was renewed yesterday afternoon, but we have, as yet, no definite intelligence as to the results of this, or of any of the engagements of the same character, which have [...]

June 15, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Again the honor and the fame of South Carolina is pledged upon the field of battle in the blood of some of her noblest sons. The soldierly spirit of BEE is gone – the grand Roman heroism of GREGG is but a page of history – the fiery soul [...]

June 15, 1863, The New York Herald The indications that an offensive campaign has not only been resolved upon, but has actually been commenced, by General Lee, similar to that of last years, are so numerous, consistent and conclusive, in our judgment, as to leave no margin for the slightest doubt upon the subject. The [...]

June 15, 1863, The New York Herald At the commencement of the war the rebel government had so much military talent on its hands that it hardly knew what to do with it. General R.E. Lee, in particular, was almost as much of a bother in Richmond as he has since been in better places, [...]

June 15, 1863, The New York Herald It is evident from all the ascertained movements of General Lee’s army that an active campaign is now in operation against the Union forces on the Rappahannock, and that at any moment a most important phase in the state of affairs there may be developed. Harper’s Ferry, the [...]

Monday, 15th.—Various reports afloat, but none very reliable. Heavy firing all day. Nearly one-half of company sick; rations very short and bad; been living on pea-bread for some days. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)