April 2, 1863, The Charleston Mercury CHARLES FOX observed that ‘civil wars were the most bloody of all revolutions.’ The reasons are obvious. Restoration implies infraction. A government rent in twain, the people, once living under it together, become enemies. Nothing but some great cause – some violent oppression or abuse – can produce such [...]
April 2, 1863, New Orleans Bee The Brownsville Flag has a long editorial with regard to the recent capture of Col. Davis and other officers on Mexican soil. It states that Captain Montgomery was hanged. The Flag says: The extraordinary transactions of which we give the details in another column, will excite people to be [...]
April 2, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi) We are offering to pay the heavy price of eight cents a pound for white rags, delivered at this office, as will be seen by reference to a special notice in another column. If every housekeeper would keep a rag bag wherein to preserve the “scraps,” an immense [...]
April 2, 1863, The New York Herald Gold went up yesterday in Wall street to fifty-eight per cent premium. The fact may be embarrassing to Mr. Chase; but it hardly needs an explanation. The […..] expectations” of the country some weeks ago of substantial victories close at hand over the armed forces of the rebellion [...]
April 2, 1863, Southern Confederacy (Atlanta, Georgia) The Baltimore Clipper says Antonia J. Ford was the principal spy and guide for Capt. Mosby in his recent raid on Fairfax Court House, and aided in planning the arrest of Gen. Slaughter, Wyndham and others. She was arrested and brought to the Old Capitol Prison, on Sunday [...]
April 1, 1863, Austin State Gazette Mr. Editor–Permit me to inquire of you why it is that the editor of the Houston Telegraph is so tardy in acknowledging the receipt of money forwarded by the ladies of Austin for the benefit of the soldiers? Why is it that when he does condescend to do so, [...]
April 9, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) One grain of corn in the earth is as a bullet in the heart of a Yankee soldier; and a ridge of potatoes is worth any mile of breastwork from Vicksburg to the Rappahannock.
April 1, 1863, Galveston Weekly News Galveston, March 28, 1863. Eds. News.–Yesterday Evening the train did not arrive from Houston until 8 o’clock. The freight was so great that the engine was incapable of taking it beyond Virginia Point, where eleven cars out of thirty were switched off. After taking the balance on the bridge [...]
April 1, 1863, The New York Herald Our Hilton head Correspondence. HILTON HEAD, S.C., March 27, 1863. I wrote you a day or two since of the alarming destitution existing in city of Savannah. Since then we have received into our lines several deserters from the rebel defences at Canston’s Bluff and Thunderbolt, who more [...]
April 1, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser The Field and Fireside in reply to a query gives the following list: There are several mills in Virginia; in North Carolina there is a mill at Fayetteville, Raleigh, Shelby, Salem and Lincolnton. In South Carolina there are two at Greenville, controlled, we believe, by the same company, and [...]
April 1, 1863, The New York Herald From all the information which reaches our lines at Suffolk and Yorktown it appears evident that the enemy are about evacuating Richmond. The large guns and machinery are being conveyed to Chattanooga, as though the hazard of the die was to be accepted at that point. A successful [...]
April 1, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser The Richmond Enquirer has a list of the newspapers now published in Virginia, and they number only 17, of which 10 are in Richmond and only 7 in all the rest of the State, viz: 1 at Petersburg, 3 at Lynchburg, 1 at Staunton, 1 at Harrisonburg, 1 at [...]
April 1, 1863, The Charleston Mercury It has been known for some time that General FINEGAN was making arrangements to attack the Yankee vandals at Jacksonville, and we have for several days past been expecting an account of a fight in that neighborhood. Gen. FINEGAN had just made his arrangements to clear out that den [...]
April 1, 1863, Galveston Weekly News We notice that many Galvestonians in this city are anxiously awaiting the removal of the military restrictions which still prevent their return to their homes. It is said these restrictions will soon be removed. They are now subjected to heavy expenses and great inconveniences, and most of them are [...]
April 1, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The white or buff facing of the Confederate uniform is so easily soiled and so difficult to clean, it is fast going out of use. In defiance of the regulations, our officers are having their coats made plain without any facings. In the English army many regiments have white [...]
March 31, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois) The signs of the times clearly indicate that the people of the Northern States are moving, and that we are in the midst of a great conservative, political revolution, which is destined to sweep every vestige of republicanism into oblivion.The movement which was inaugurated last fall, in the [...]
March 31, 1863, New Orleans Bee The United States steamer Honduras arrived here on Sunday from the Rio Grande, having two hundred and sixty refugees from Texas.The Era learns the following from Lieutenant Colonel Stancel: On the morning of the 15th a force of Confederates of about one hundred and fifty men crossed the Rio [...]
March 31, 1863, The Charleston Mercury It is the part of the truly brave seldom to make an undue estimate of the dangers or difficulties before them, but to see things as they are, because passions are not permitted to pervert judgment. Their hopes and expectations are not beyond the warrant of events, and fears [...]
March 31, 1863, Nashville Dispatch Yesterday afternoon six or seven of Uncle Sam’s four-in-hands drove up to the Recorder’s office, laden down with a lot of contrabands, varying in age from d’enfant to second childhood, except the strong middle-aged, whom the officer in charge was about to consign to the care of the Recorder, when [...]
March 31, 1863, The New York Herald The United States steam transport New Brunswick, Captain Winchester, from New Orleans 23d inst., arrived here yesterday morning. Advices per the New Brunswick report the return of Gen. Grover’s forces to the vicinity of Baton Rouge. Three hundred and fifty bales of cotton, twelve to fifteen hundred hogsheads [...]
March 31, 1863, The New York Herald An attack by the rebel cavalry, one hundred strong, was made yesterday on our cavalry patrol on the telegraph road, between Dumfries and the Occaquan. Eight of our men were captured. An expedition from General Hooker’s army, under colonel Fairchild, which was sent out recently to Northern Neck, [...]
March 31, 1863, The Charleston Mercury Reports reached the city last evening, by the Savannah train, to the effect that, on Sunday afternoon, two regiments of the enemy landed upon John’s Island and drove in our pickets. In the skirmishing which ensured, three of the enemy are said to have been made prisoners. It is [...]
March 31, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) Fifteen or twenty women, the leader of whom carried a revolver, in Atlanta, on Wednesday, went around to a number of grocery stores, seizing bacon, meal and vegetables, paying such prices as they thought proper. They were dispersed by the police. The Confederacy says the women were only [...]
March 31, 1863, Nashville Dispatch Before the Chief of Army Police, Nashville, March 30, 1863.– . . . Mrs. John Trainor was arrested under a charge of being associated with her husband in his extensive smuggling operations.She was arrested in Louisville, Ky., and brought to this place. C. Tavel, a druggist of Louisville, Ky., was [...]
March 31, 1863, The New York Herald UNITED STATES SLOOP-OF-WAR RICHMOND, OFF PROPHET ISLAND, MISSISSIPPI RIVER, March 15, 1863. Port Hudson, the rebel stronghold on the Mississippi, was attacked by the Union fleet, under command of Admiral Farragut, last night. The result was a partial success, as the flagship Hartford and the gunboat Albatross succeeded [...]