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 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 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 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 [...]
June 19, 1863, The New York Herald Mr. T. M. Cook’s Letter. ON THE MARCH, June 17, 1863. SCOUTS. Scouts from the mountain passes of the Blue Ridge bring in but little interesting news. In fact; you are probably better posted in regard to the rebel movements from the front than you can be from [...]
June 19, 1863, Menphis Daily Appeal (Atlanta, Ga) A letter from a correspondent to the Richmond Examiner, dated Richmond, June 7, gives the following narrative of the inhumanity of the Yankees toward the exiles from Western Virginia: I received a letter this morning from a refugee, giving an account of the banishment of [...]
June 19, 1863, The New York Herald It appears that the detachment from General Lee’s forces which for several days was in occupation of Chambersburg has fallen back to a safer position; that Harrisburg is secure, and that the general drift of the advanced fragments of the rebel army has been turned westward, as if [...]
June 19, 1863, American Citizen (Canton, Mississippi) One object we had in view in our recent trip to Alabama and Georgia, was to procure a sufficient supply of printing paper to enable us to enlarge The Citizen to a respectable size, and place the continuance of its publication beyond all contingencies, except those incident [...]
June 19, 1863, The New York Herald Mr. T. H. Whipple’s Letter. CAIRO, June 15, 1863. THE BATTLE AT MILLIKEN’S BEND, some particulars of which the telegraph has ere this taken to you, turns out to have been a more sanguinary affair than was at first supposed. It occurred on Saturday and Sunday, the 6th [...]
June 19, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We publish this morning a letter from an intelligent planter to a friend, descriptive of what passed under his own eye, during the late raid on the Combahee River. The matter, as presented, is one demanding the serious and careful attention of all citizens of the State, no less [...]
June 19, 1863, The Charleston Mercury THE MOVEMENTS IN THE WEST. JACKSON, June 13, p.m. – It is stated positively that JACKSON’S cavalry has retaken the Big Black Bridge. We have no particulars yet. A gentleman just from Vicksburg says that the garrison there is in the best spirits, with plenty to eat and an [...]
June 19, 1863, The New York Herald Despatch of Mr. Thomas M. Cook. ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, June 18, 1863. The situation and intention of the rebels begins more and more to be developed, and we gain a clearer insight into their plans and purposes. There is a very large room for doubt whether any [...]
June 19, 1863, Menphis Daily Appeal (Atlanta, Ga) “I want a copy of that book about Gen. Lee’s poor miserable soldiers faintin,” said an old lady in West & Johnston’s bookstore, the other day. The clerk was dumbfounded. One of the proprietors was sent for, made the old lady repeat her request, turned pale, [...]
June 19, 1863, The New York Herald Mr. Simon Cameron, the predecessor of Edwin M. Stanton in the War Department, took occasion the other day at Harrisburg to denounce the present Secretary for his gross mismanagement in general, and his shameful neglect in particular to protect Pennsylvania from invasion. There can be no doubt that [...]
June 19, 1863, The New York Herald Information has reached Washington that a skirmish occurred on Wednesday near Aldie between the Union cavalry and the rebels. Eighty-five rebels were captured by our forces, among them eight officers. Several killed and wounded. This skirmish may be the preliminary contest of a more general and bloodier struggle, [...]
June 19, 1863, Menphis Daily Appeal (Atlanta, Ga) Mrs. Mattie Patterson, whose arrest on a charge of carrying on treasonable correspondence with the enemy has been mentioned, was found guilty by the military commission at Murfreesboro’, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary, at Jeffersonville, Ind., for life. The general commutes her sentence to three [...]
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 [...]