June 20th. Scouts brought in many prisoners. All were obliged to report to the General at headquarters. I very often heard the conversation. One question always asked. “Whose command do you belong to?” While on duty at the General’s headquarters we received a call from two citizens from our home town, Norwich, Dr. Charles M. [...]
20th. Awakened at 4 A. M. and ordered to take 3 days’ rations, forage and provisions on horse and 3 in wagon. Marched at 6. Thede and I went together. Passed the 103rd at the river. Followed us to Monticello. Took the Albany road. Went five miles and camped. Cool day for marching. Saw Lt. [...]
Saturday, 20th–By order of General Grant all the artillery opened upon Vicksburg this morning, and the bombardment continued throughout the day. It is reported that the rebels have lost six hundred, killed and wounded, many of these being killed during the first two hours of the firing. Our left is holding quite tight. The sky [...]
June 20th. Slight firing early this morning in rear of Port Hudson; at five A. M. the steamer Bee arrived from above Bayou Sara, having on board the pilot of gunboat Lafayette, who has come down as bearer of despatches to Commodore Palmer. At four twenty P. M., heavy artillery firing going on in rear [...]
Well dressed woman is shown praying in a furnished cave space. A crucifix is on the wall, the cave opening looks out on to the town. Published Baltimore 1863
From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd JUNE 20TH.–This morning our whole line of artillery–seven miles long–opened on the doomed city and fortifications at six o’clock, and kept up the firing for four hours, during which time the smoke was so thick we could see nothing but the flash of the guns. No fog could [...]
JUNE 20th.—It has got out that the President intends to dispense with the services of Mr. Myers, the Jew Quartermaster-General, and Mr. Miles, member of Congress from South Carolina, who happens to be his friend, is characteristically doing the part of a friend for his retention. But he gives the President some severe raps for [...]
June 20, 1863, The Charleston Mercury JACKSON, MISS., June 18. – For the first time in four days, heavy firing was heard at Vicksburg this morning. The latest accounts represent GRANT’S army to be busy fortifying and cutting down trees beyond the Big Black to impede the movements of JOHNSTON. Great distress prevails amongst our [...]
June 20, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Since the repulse of the fleet of iron-clad gunboats on the 7th of April, our people seem to have settled down into a condition of complacent inertness concerning the public defences in this locality. Now, confidence is undoubtedly a good thing, and its moral power is an admirable auxiliary, [...]
June 20, 1863, (Marshall) Texas Republican Mrs. Mary Hyde arrived at the Alton prison from Nashville, having been sentenced by Gen. Rosecrans to imprisonment during the war, in the Illinois penitentiary. The offence with which she is charged is “secession proclivities.”
June 20, 1863, The New York Herald Great activity still prevails in Pennsylvania both among the rebels and our own forces. The rebels were, up to yesterday evening, at or near Greencastle, having retired from Chambersburg hastily and in alarm. The Eighth and Seventy-first New York Militia went to Chambersburg, to march from thence to [...]
June 20, 1863, The New York Herald DETAILS OF THE REBEL MOVEMENTS. Our Shippensburg Correspondence. SHIPPENSBURG, Pa., June 17 – A.M. Eleven miles from this place is Chambersburg, and for a considerable distance in advance of the latter place and towards this locality are rebel pickets, videttes and foraging and scouting parties. Hence we are [...]
June 20, 1863, The New York Herald DETAILS OF THE REBEL MOVEMENTS. Our Greencastle Correspondence. GREENCASTLE, Pa., ELEVEN MILES FROM HAGERSTOWN, June 17, 1863. At one o’clock today the rebel column commenced to pass through this place rather leisurely. One of the commanding officers gave notice that the town would be burned in less than [...]
June 20, 1863, [Little Rock] Weekly Arkansas Gazette The least patriotic, and the most dangerous, sign of the times, is exhibited in the mania which possesses a portion of our people for trafficking with the enemy, which, more than any thing else, nay, more than all other causes combined, panders to the malign spirits [...]
June 20, 1863, The New York Herald DETAILS OF THE REBEL MOVEMENTS. Our Harrisburg Correspondence. HARRISBURG, Pa., June 19, 1863. APPEARANCE OF THE INTERIOR. We just returned from a hurried visit to the interior, and am glad to inform you that I found the citizens residing in the counties bordering on the line of the [...]
June 20, 1863, The Charleston Mercury GLORIOUS NEWS FROM THE BORDER! GEN. LEE’S ARMY IN PENNSYLVANIA. SHELBYVILLE, TENN., June 18. – Nashville papers of the 7th have been received here. The news they contain is highly important. President LINCOLN has issued a Proclamation calling for 100,000 militia, to serve for six months. The following despatches [...]
June 20, 1863, The New York Herald The bold and rapid movement of the rebel army of Virginia into the State of Pennsylvania calls for prompt and decisive action on the part of the Governors of the Northern States. This is the time to put all our available forces into the field. The rebels have [...]
June 20, 1863, The New York Herald From the numerous despatches which we publish this morning in reference to the movements of the rebel forces in Maryland, Pennsylvania, the Shenandoah valley and in the country between the eastern flank of the Blue Ridge and the old battle ground of Manassas, it would appear, first, that, [...]
June 20, 1863, (Marshall) Texas Republican Public Meeting.–A public meeting was held at Winnsboro’ in Wood county, on the 30th ult., for the purpose of collecting Bacon and Soap for the army upon the call of Capt. G. G. Gregg, A. C. S. Patriotic resolutions were adopted, setting forth the determination of the citizens [...]
Saturday, 20th.—At daylight firing began and continued with unabated fury until 11 A. M. Reported Yankees made heavy charges, but were repulsed. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)
June 20th.—The gentleman who took our cave came yesterday to invite us to come to it, because, he said, “it’s going to be very bad to-day.” I don’t know why he thought so. We went, and found his own and another family in it; sat outside and watched the shells till we concluded the cellar [...]