“Hermes,” the correspondent of the Charleston Mercury, says the following story, is current in Richmond:             In the Capitol Square, a few days ago, a drunken soldier accosted the President:             “Are you Mr. Davis?”             “I am,” was the stern reply.              “Are you the President of the Confederate States?”              “I am.” [...]

May 13, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We glean from the Richmond papers some additional details of the recent battles on the Rappahannock. The correspondent of the Dispatch writes: THE FIGHT IN THE WILDERNESS. The fight on the plank road – in the country known as the ‘Wilderness’ was, beyond doubt, one of the must stubbornly [...]

May 13, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Seldom, indeed, has a people manifested so deep and universal a sorrow as that which has spread over the land with the announcement of the loss of the loved and trusted leader, whom both hemispheres had learned to know and admire as ‘Stonewall’ JACKSON. General LEE’S sublime tribute to [...]

May 13, 1863, Dallas Herald             We find the following paragraph in the Texas Almanac Extra, of the 30th ult:             We are happy to say that the Military Board has received a large number of superior cotton cards, which they intend to distribute to the several counties upon the basis of the scholastic census.  [...]

May 13, 1863, Galveston Weekly News             The Item gives the following as the correct form for an application to obtain Penitentiary goods: The State of Texas, county of ________             Before me the undersigned authority, this day personally came Mrs. ________ of the same county, who made oath that the goods sought to be [...]

May 13, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas)             We have received from three little girls–Misses Eva Hutchins, Belle Smith, an Cora Gentry–the sum of four dollars and fifteen cents, the net proceeds of a juvenile fair gotten up by them for the benefit of the soldiers.  We shall apply it where we think the donation [...]

May 13, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)             We would state, for the information of persons who may write to friends abroad, or in the enemy’s lines, that no flags of truce are now allowed on the Georgia or Carolina coast, and all letters should be addressed via Petersburg, Va., and flag of truce to City [...]

May 13, 1863, Galveston Weekly News             Under this impressive head the Philadelphia Sunday Mercury publishes the following extract from a letter of a staff officer in one of the brigades of Sherman’s Division of the army of the Southwest.  It is written in camp on the Tallahatchie river, and the writer, says the Mercury, [...]

May 13, 1863, Dallas Herald             The Bath paper mills in South Carolina, the most extensive in the South, have been destroyed by fire.  Many of the leading journals Eastward were dependent upon them for supply.  The Charleston Mercury, amongst others, will be suspended, and several will come down to a half sheet.  Those who [...]

May 13, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser             A project is on foot to establish a paper mill at Pine Bluff, Ark., and another is to be erected at some point in Texas.

May 13, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser             A young woman, apparently about 17 years of age, was arrested in Augusta, on Tuesday last, attired in military apparel.–She said she was a married woman from Mississippi, and that she belonged to a company in Charleston.  The Augusta Chronicle thinks it likely she pants for glory.

May 12, 1863, Southern Confederacy (Atlanta, Georgia)             We invite the special attention of everybody at home to the letter of our special correspondent J. H. H., from Estell Springs, in to-day’s paper–particularly to that portion of it in reference to writing letters to soldiers in the field.             We ought to write to our [...]

May 12, 1863, The New York Herald Since the rebellion broke out we have had a great many uprisings at the North. There have been uprisings of the men of the North, the patriots of the North, the politicians of the North, the contractors of the North, the stock jobbers of the North, the gold [...]

May 12, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia)             Mr. E. Steadman calls upon all the cotton yarn spinners of the State to meet in convention at Atlanta on the 15th inst., to arrange a united effort on the part of the factories to supply the destitute families of soldiers with yarns.             Col. Ira R.  [...]

May 12, 1863, The New York Herald The report that General Hooker’s army is again on the south side of the Rappahannock, and advancing, gives general satisfaction. It was feared that his return to this side signified the suspension of any offensive operations on our part in Virginia for several months to come; but it [...]

May 12, 1863, The New York Herald There is nothing to report from General Hooker’s advance today. The rebels were at work in considerable force yesterday on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, repairing the bridge over the Rapidan. The Stoneman cavalry expedition is immortal. We have given heretofore very full accounts from army correspondents, embracing [...]

May 12, 1863, The New York Herald THE SIEGE OF SUFFOLK. Our West Point Correspondence. WEST POINT, Va., May 9, 1863. A portion of the Fourth army corps, Major General Erasmus A. Keyes commanding, reached this point shortly after one o’clock on Thursday last (7th inst.) The troops were conveyed thither in a large fleet [...]

May 12, 1863, The Charleston Mercury While the Northern journals console their readers for the late disappointment by telling them that another expedition is preparing for the capture of Charleston, there are undoubted signs of activity on the sea islands in possession of the enemy. Within the last two days and nights a very large [...]

May 12, 1863, The New York Herald Colonel Kilpatrick’s Report. WASHINGTON, May 11, 1863. The following was received at headquarters today:– YORKTOWN, Va., May 8, 1863. Major General H.W. HALLECK, Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army:– GENERAL – I have the honor to report that, by direction of Major General Stoneman, I left Louisa Court [...]

May 12, 1863, The New York Herald The late catastrophe on the Rappahannock is full of instruction, if the authorities at Washington could only profit by it and amend their ways. The criticism on the battle by Mr. Emil Schalk, in the letter which we published on Sunday, is well deserving of attention. This gentleman [...]

May 12, 1863, The New York Herald THE LEADERS OF THE EXPEDITION. The Leaders of the Famous Cavalry Expedition Around Lee’s Rebel Army. SKETCH OF GENERAL STONEMAN. Major General George Stoneman is a native of New York, and between thirty-five and forty years of age. He was appointed from his native State to the West [...]

May 12, 1863, The New York Herald THE SIEGE OF SUFFOLK. Our Suffolk Correspondence. SUFFOLK, Va., May 8, 1863. The recent movement of General Hooker at Fredericksburg relieved us of the forces of Longstreet and Hill, who were closely besieging us up to Sunday last, and they are now probably far on their way to [...]

May 11, 1863, The Charleston Mercury A week has passed since the defeat of HOOKER, and, as yet, no full or consecutive account of it has been obtained. The main facts, however, are now known. The Richmond Examiner thus briefly sketches the movements of the two armies: Hooker’s first object in crossing the Rappahannock above [...]

May 11, 1863, The New York Herald MURFREESBORO, May 9, 1863. Rebel reports from Chattanooga of the 7th say that the force sent from this army under Colonel Streight, of the Fifty-first Indiana regiment, have been captured near Rome, Georgia, after five battles with the enemy. This force was co-operating with General Dodge, from Corinth. [...]