18th. Orders to draw ten days’ rations and be ready to march at a minute’s notice. Drew and issued ten days’ rations. Hospital boys sent back to Hickman. Brigade quite inquisitive as to where we are going. In the evening concert. Wrote to Will Hudson. Letter from Sarah Felton.
Thursday, 18th–We have had strong wind and thunder for three days now, but no rain. I was on duty today for the first time in two and a half months, for while I was cook I had no other duty. Skirmishing and cannonading are still going on. News came that our army is in the [...]
(excerpts) RECTOR’S X ROAD, June 18th, 1863. “Dear Mama, “I have written L. twice in the last two weeks and the reason I did not write you after the fight (Brandy Station) was that you were so close (Orange C. H.) I did not think you would feel uneasy at not hearing from me. The [...]
June 18th. Bombardment of Port Hudson by our army and navy going on at an early hour this morning; at three forty-five P. M., the steamer Arizona came down the river. Nothing more worthy of mention occurred during the day.
JUNE 18th.—From Winchester we have many accounts, in the absence of official reports (Gen. Lee being too busy in the saddle to write), which have exalted our spirits most wonderfully. The number of prisoners taken, by the lowest estimate is 5000,—the others say 9000,—besides 50 guns, and an immense amount of stores. Our own loss [...]
From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd JUNE 18TH.–I was relieved from guard at 9 A.M. and returned to camp. There has been very heavy firing all day, and it is rumored that Pemberton will try to break through our lines; but if he tries that game he will find it dangerous enough. It is [...]
June 18, 1863, The New York Herald In this moment of painful anxiety, when the nation has lost confidence in the general at the head of the Army of the Potomac, and the army itself, if it ever believed in him, has faith in him no more, and when the army and the people look [...]
June 18, 1863, The New York Herald The Harrisburg Telegrams. HARRISBURG, June 16 – Midnight. Two of our reporters have just returned from in front of the rebel pickets, who are picketed forty-seven miles from Harrisburg, at Scotland Bridge, which they burned this morning. A party of fifteen set fire to the structure. The rebels [...]
June 18, 1863, The New York Herald Major General Hunter arrived in this city yesterday, having been relieved of his command of the Department of the South. General Gillmore, the conqueror of Fort Pulaski, takes General Hunter’s place, and we are sure that no appointment could be more popular with the officers and soldiers of [...]
June 18, 1863, The New York Herald By the latest accounts it has been ascertained that no rebels were to be found as far as Shippensburg yesterday. They were in possession of the little town of Scotland, where they had burned the bridge. About three o’clock yesterday they retreated from Chambersburg. An official despatch from [...]
June 18, 1863, The Charleston Mercury GOOD NEWS FROM VIRGINIA! RICHMOND, June 17. – A despatch dated Rockingham, June 16th, to the agent of the Associated Press, says that EWELL attacked the enemy at Winchester on Saturday, and fought them all day Sunday. On Monday, at 4, a.m., he renewed the attack, and, after a [...]
June 18, 1863, The Charleston Mercury On Friday, the 15th November, 1861, just after the fall of Hilton Head, we put forth the following editorial, submitting it to an eminent citizen of Charleston deemed most wise and most discreet. It was a calm, practical, common sense consideration of the evident dangers in view and of [...]
June 18, 1863, The New York Herald Our Harrisburg Correspondence. HARRISBURG, June 16, 1863. GOVERNOR CURTIN AND HIS PRESENT ACTION. I called upon the Governor this morning at seven o’clock, and found him at the Executive chamber looking wearied and disappointed. He is resigned to the fate that awaits the capital of the glorious old [...]
June 18, 1863, The New York Herald The Main Body of the Enemy in the Shenandoah Valley. PHILADELPHIA, June 17, 1863. A special despatch from Washington, dated last night contains the following intelligence:– The latest advices from the army show that General Lee has pushed a very large force up the Shenandoah valley. General Ewell’s [...]
June 18, 1863, The New York Herald Correspondence of Mr. F. G. Chapman. FREDERICK, Md., June 16, 1863. After a hard ride of sixty miles I arrived here today, and found the most excited set of people that could possibly be conceived of inhabiting the town. I had been led to expect that the town [...]
June 18, 1863, Clarke County Journal (Alabama) Camp Sawyer, Caroline County, Va } May 30th, 1863. } Mr. Editor: Whilst the press teem with individual acts of heroism exhibited in the late battles of Chancellorsville, permit [...]
June 18, 1863, The New York Herald According to our latest advices from Washington, the main body of the rebel army is moving down the Shenandoah valley towards Maryland, while the army of General Hooker is gathered around the old battle field of Bull run. It is conjectured that Lee’s programme is substantially that of [...]
Thursday, 18th.—Not so much cannonading to-day; reported Yanks have taken away some of their cannon, P. M., sharp-shooters firing away pretty rapidly yet. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)
June 18th.—To-day the “Citizen” is printed on wall paper; therefore has grown a little in size. It says, “But a few days more and Johnston will be here”; also that “Kirby Smith has driven Banks from Port Hudson,” and that “the enemy are throwing incendiary shells in.” Note: To protect Mrs. Miller’s job as a [...]
17th. A very hot, sultry, uncomfortable day. Suffered much from the extreme heat. Passed part of the day with Henry. Finished Emma Bartlett or “Prejudice and Fanaticism”, a book borrowed from Mrs. Vickery. Treats some of slavery, both sides, very good.
Wednesday, 17th–Our mortar boats are shelling the rebels day and night, and the constant roar of cannon is something dreadful to listen to. Our regiment drew some clothing from the quartermaster today. We just learned that we are to remain out here on picket. The boys are having easy times picking blackberries and plums. They [...]
June 17th. I must write something somewhere, I don’t care if dinner is ready, and Brother’s “safe old Secesh “downstairs! Lydia has another boy! Letter has just come, and I am demented about my new godchild! There now! feel better! One more word – it shall be called “Howell.” Dear, blessed little baby! how I [...]
June 17th. Early this morning, mortars of lower fleet firing at intervals. At ten A. M. gunboat Sachem came down the river with despatches, and anchored ahead of the Albatross, off Falls river; burned several buildings on left bank of river; artillery and musketry firing in rear of Port Hudson, which continued until twelve o’clock; [...]
From the diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd JUNE 17TH–I was detailed to the charge of a squad of men to guard rebel prisoners in the corral at Logan’s headquarters. They were not hard to guard, for they think themselves in pretty good hands, and surely they seem to get better grub here than in their [...]
JUNE 17th.—The city has been gladdened by the reception of this dispatch from Gen. Lee : “JUNE 15th, 1863. “HIS EXCELLENCY, JEFFERSON DAVIS. “God has again crowned the valor of our troops with success. Early’s division stormed the enemy’s intrenchments at Winchester, capturing their artillery, etc. “(Signed)R. E. LEE, General.” Subsequent reports to the press [...]