23rd. All astir again early. Soon after breakfast teams pulled out. Thede and I went ahead. Got a drink of milk at West’s. Case not so well. Crossed the river and reached camp at 3 P. M. Found good letters from home and Fannie. Have had nice cool weather for marching all the time. Felt [...]
Tuesday, 23d–Fighting is still going on. A force of thirty thousand under command of General Sherman was sent to rout Johnston. The Eleventh Iowa, with the exception of Company E, went on an expedition[1] in the direction of the Big Black river. Company E was left here for picket duty. [1] To join Sherman’s forces.—Ed.
June 23d. The forenoon of this day pleasant, but afternoon and evening squally and rainy. Firing at intervals heard at Port Hudson during the whole day.
JUNE 23d.—From the army on the Potomac we have a dispatch from Lee, saying there have been several cavalry engagements during the last week, wherein our arms were successful. Lee will soon electrify us with another movement of his grand army,—such is the general belief. From the West we learn that on Saturday last, Grant, [...]
From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd JUNE 23d.–We halted this morning at six o’clock, and but a few minutes elapsed before two-thirds of the regiment were fast asleep. A few very hungry ones, only, made coffee and took breakfast. We find ourselves again on the road to Jackson, but what our final [...]
June 23, 1863, The New York Herald The Chambersburg Telegrams. CHAMBERSBURG, Pa., June 22, 1863. I undertook to reach Greencastle today, but could not do so as the rebels are still there. This afternoon a detachment of the First New York cavalry had a skirmish with the rebels two miles this side of Greencastle. We [...]
June 23, 1863, The New York Herald Our Port Royal Correspondence. PORT ROYAL, S.C., June 17, 1863. The great rebel bugbear, which had for so many months previous to the advent of the Monitor fleet into our waters thrown the military and naval communities into a state of alarm and anxiety, is at last in [...]
June 23, 1863, The New York Herald Our Hilton Head Correspondence. HILTON HEAD, S.C., June 17, 1863. The transport steamer Saxon, Captain Lavender, goes North today for repairs, rendered necessary by damages received some months since while crossing the bar at Stono, against the remonstrances of the captain. She will carry a mail. During the [...]
June 23, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) The Milwaukee correspondent of the Chicago Tribune (Republican) says: Another disgraceful scene occurred in our city this afternoon, similar to that of a few days since. An enrolling officer, while engaged in his duties in one of the wards, was attacked by a large number of [...]
June 23, 1863, The Charleston Mercury THE NEWS FROM THE WEST. JACKSON, MISS. June 20. – A soldier who escaped from Louisville, Ky., on the 5th instant, reports that Majors J. H. THOMPSON and F. M. COWAN had been taken from the jail at that place and hung, under BURNSIDE’S order forbidding recruiting in that [...]
June 23, 1863, The New York Herald HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, June 22, 1863. Heavy cannonading commenced early yesterday morning in the direction of Aldie, and continued, with intermissions, during the day. Towards night the sound became more distant and indistinct. It is known that General Pleasanton attacked the enemy near Aldie, [...]
June 23, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) During the recent Yankee raid into Florence they burnt the three Cotton Factories of Martin, Weakley & Co., which worked up 4,000 bales per year; the Woolen Factories of Darby, Benham & Co., and of James Martin & Son–5 factories. In Florence they burnt the Masonic [...]
June 23, 1863, The New York Herald The loss of Winchester by General Milroy is a matter that demands the immediate attention of the government. It is worse than the surrender of Harper’s Ferry and Maryland Heights by Miles and Ford last September, and General Milroy ought to be placed immediately under arrest and tried [...]
June 23, 1863, The New York Herald The Harrisburg Telegrams. HARRISBURG, June 23, 1863. There is no doubt that the enemy is fortifying Hagerstown. They hold the country between Hagerstown and Williamsport with at least a corps d, probably General Ewell. Millerstown, eight miles from Gettysburg, has been occupied to-day by a force of rebel [...]
June 23, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Events have not yet declared the object of General LEE in advancing into Pennsylvania. At first we supposed that it was to carry into Pennsylvania the kind of war the Yankees have carried into the Confederate States – to lay waste this State as they have laid waste the [...]
June 23, 1863, The New York Herald The news from the Army of the Potomac bespeaks movements of great importance in operation or soon to be enacted in Virginia. The cavalry fight of Sunday may be but the prelude to a grand battle. Orders have been issued by General Hooker that […..] shall be said [...]
Tuesday, 23d.—Pretty heavy firing on lines last night; reported 57th Georgia captured a lieutenant-colonel and six privates. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)