April 5, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi) This paper has been discontinued. The proprietors of the Mississippian having become its publishers previous to its suspension, are responsible to its patrons for their subscriptions to it. In all cases, where direction is not given to the contrary, the advance payments for subscription to the Crisis will [...]

April 5, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois) Warning The following poem contains wording that is offensive to many in the world of today. However, the article is provided unedited for its historical content and context. Tell Abe Lincoln that he’d better end the war, Tell Abe Lincoln what we all came out here for, Tell [...]

April 4, 1863, (Marshall) Texas Republican  A friend whom we engaged to purchase us a supply of printing paper on the other side of the river, had just returned and informs us that he applied at several mills in Georgia, and failed to obtain any. That if he could have procured the paper, it would [...]

April 4, 1863, The New York Herald We publish this morning General McClellan’s official report of the battle of Antietam. This report shows, as clearly as the sun at noonday, that if McClellan’s advice in regard to Harper’s Ferry had been followed by the War Department the battle of Antietam would have resulted still more [...]

April 4, 1863, Mobile Register And Advertiser Ladies throughout the South are requested to interest themselves in the culture of the Garden Poppy, and thus render the Confederacy essential service. The juice extracted from the punctured capsule, when sufficiently hardened, should be carefully put up and forwarded to the nearest Medical Purveyor’s Department.  

April 4, 1863, Richmond Examiner This titled Dutchman, who was captured at Fairfax Court House with General Stoughton, by Capt. Mosby, and confined for a time at the Libby prison, has returned to the North on parole, and ventilated his Teutonic spleen by the publication of some of the most bare faced and monstrous lies [...]

April 4, 1863, (Marshall) Texas Republican E. J. Davis, formerly Judge of the Brownsville District, lately a rampant unionist and recently a Colonel in the Federal service, visited Matamoras not long since where he remained for several days. He left on the 11th ult., carrying with him his wife, a patriotic good woman who is [...]

April 4, 1863, The New York Herald The First army corps of General Hooker’s army was reviewed by that officer on Thursday, and the appearance of the troops was pronounced most satisfactory. General orders have been issued for a grand muster of the troops in the Potomac Army on the 10th inst., after which the [...]

April 4, 1863, Southern Confederacy (Atlanta, Georgia) There was some little excitement in town yesterday in consequence of a small group of feminine seizers, some of whom undertook to replenish their stock of dry goods by a descent upon a pile of calico. The proceedings, however, were not conducted with much vigor and determination, and [...]

April 4, 1863, (Marshall) Texas Republican  We learn that considerable excitement exists in several of the Northeastern counties of this State, and particularly those of Hunt and Hopkins, growing out of the appearance in that section of some men belonging to the notorious Martin D. Hart. After the execution of Hart, a portion of his [...]

April 4, 1863, (Marshall) Texas Republican Dear Loughery,  I had heard much of the extensive tannery, saw and grist mill, in course of construction by Gregg & Co., but still had no conception of the extent of the enterprise, till recently happening to be near, I concluded to call by, see, and judge of the [...]

April 4, 1863, The New York Herald Preliminary Report of General McClellan of the Battles of South Mountain and Antietam. HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Oct. 15, 1862. GENERAL – I have the honor to submit a preliminary report of the military operations under my charge since the evacuation of Harrison’s Landing. The measure directed [...]

April 4, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois)  The people of the country who have watched with anxiety the progress of affairs near Vicksburg; who have read with deep interest every scrap of intelligence from that locality, and who had hoped for ultimate victory in the face of repeated reverses, are now beginning to wonder what [...]

April 4, 1863, Richmond Examiner The reader will find in the report of evidence in the Police Court, the true account of a so-called riot in the streets of Richmond. A handful f prostitutes, professional thieves, Irish and Yankee hags, gallows-birds from all lands but our own, congregated in Richmond, with a woman huckster at [...]

April 4, 1863, Richmond Examiner MAYOR’S COURT – April 3rd, 1863 – The following named parties were charged with engaging in a riot on Thursday, and encouraging and inciting others to engage in the said riot. Frank Wallip, Benjamin Slemper, Mary Woodward, Mary Waster, Mary Butler, Sarah Coghil, Martha Burnett, Sally Mitchell, Lawrence Martin, Alexander [...]

April 3, 1863, American Citizen (Canton, Mississippi)  The Columbus (Miss.) Republic, in commenting on the rascalities perpetrated by the speculators, and the frauds participated in by the railroad men, gives the following:  A little incident came to our knowledge of a certain party who had purchased a large amount of wool and a trifle over [...]

April 3, 1863, The New York Herald The official despatches from General Gillmore relative to the battle near Somerset, Kentucky, on the 30th ult., have been forwarded by General Burnside to the War Department. The action lasted five hours. The rebels were driven from their first position, which was defended by six cannon, and the [...]

April 3, 1863, The New York Herald All the evidences that crowd upon us from all quarters clearly indicate that we are about to enter upon the most important stage of the struggle in which the energies and hopes of the nation are engaged. No one who has watched the preparations on the Union side [...]

April 3, 1863, The New York Herald Our New Orleans Correspondence. NEW ORLEANS, March 25, 1863. The destruction of the steamship Bio Bio on Sunday morning last, of which you have had a partial account, was in all respects complete. She burned until two P.M., then filled and sank in very deep water, with all [...]

April 2, 1863, The New York Herald The Sunflower expedition has returned to the Mississippi river. The rebels had so obstructed the channel that no progress could be made through it. An attempt was made by the enemy to hem in the fleet by obstruction front and rear, but the infantry succeeded in releasing the [...]

April 2, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi)  The Eagle Mills of Columbus, Ga., last week, donated 500 yards sheeting and 400 yards cassimere, to the Soldier’s Relief Society of Ringgold. Estimating the sheeting at 80 cents per yard, and the cassimere at $4 50, (a fair valuation) the amount donated is $2,200. The people of [...]

April 2, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi) We are indebted to the courtesy of Judge Tucker for the use of the following clever letter which was intended for his paper: En Route to Arkansas, March 23d, 1863.  Dear Judge: We are now on board the good steamer “Twilight,” shoving our way through the water, wind [...]

April 2, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi) We hear of this, that and the other place, Mr. Editor, where the cannon roars and reverberates, and small arms flash defiance in the faces of the gory savages who seek, like natural blood-hounds, to slake their thirst by lapping the red current of life that rises higher [...]

April 2, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi)  We learn from the Raleigh Progress that another female riot took place in Salisbury, N. C. on the 18th ult. The women concerned in it compelled the merchants to share with them their stock of flour, and also robbed several families of the stock laid up for home [...]