March 27, 1863, The New York Herald NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, March 26, 1863. Four hundred and eighty-four rebel prisoners were sent South tonight by the flag of truce boat State of Maine, under charge of Captain Mulford. The number was made up of two hundred and forty prisoners that reached here last night from [...]
March 27, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois) Pish!Pshaw!Pooh!–The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Times has the effrontery to declare that there is a movement on foot in New York city, looking towards the impeachment of the President at the opening of the next session of Congress, in the manner provided by the Constitution.The movement, he [...]
March 26, 1863, The New York Herald Our intelligence from the Southwest today, confirming, as it does, the floating news which we have been in possession of for the past two or three days, is most important and satisfactory. There appears to be no doubt that Admiral Farragut’s entire squadron has arrived below Vicksburg, farther [...]
March 26, 1863, The Ranchero (Corpus Christi, Texas) From the Fort Brown Flag. On the night of Saturday, the 14th, or rather on the morning of Sunday the 15th, a party of men, consisting of some citizens and some soldiers, so we have been told, (for the names and details of the transaction have been [...]
March 26, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) The Baltimore Clipper says Antonia J. Ford was the principal spy and guide for Capt. Mosely 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 last, [...]
March 26, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) We had the pleasure of examining at the Jewelry establishment of Mr. John Hill on 14th street, yesterday, a pair of very magnificent spurs, of solid burnished gold, which were imported through the blockade, from citizens of Maryland, as a present to General Lee. They are each engraved, on [...]
March 26, 1863, The Charleston Mercury VICKSBURG, March 25. – Two of the enemy’s boats attempted to pass down the river this morning. Our batteries opened upon them with effect. One was sunk opposite our batteries. The other was badly riddled, and now lies opposite the canal batteries. It is expected she will be sunk. [...]
March 26, 1863, The New York Herald Advices received from all parts of the seceded States go to prove how greatly the people suffer for provisions and food of every description. Prices have attained a height which places almost all the necessities of life out of reach of the poorer and even the middling classes, [...]
March 26, 1863, The New York Herald The cheering news from the Mississippi, which we have the pleasure to submit to our readers this morning, opens a splendid prospect before us. Admiral Porter, by a convenient bayou, has succeeded in running five gunboats into the lower Yazoo, and into the very position desired above Haines’ [...]
March 26, 1863, (Marshall) Texas Republican Capt. T. J. Coleman, who has just returned from a trip South, informs us that throughout the counties of San Augustine, Shelby, Sabine, Jasper, &c., provisions are very scarce and that corn is selling at from three to five dollars per bushel. He paid five dollars for himself and [...]
March 26, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois) The London Times thus speaks of the condition of sewing women in London and represents a state of things truly deplorable: The young female slaves of whom we speak, are worked by gangs in ill ventilated rooms, or rooms that are not ventilated at all, for it is [...]
March 26, 1863, Clarke County Journal (Alabama) The high prices of everything we have to buy–provisions, paper, ink, &c.–compel us to raise the subscription price of the Journal. Accordingly we have placed it at $3 per annum, in advance. This is a very reasonable price for a newspaper considering the exorbitant prices of almost everything [...]
March 30, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The enemy begins to exhibit unwonted activity along our coast. On Wednesday last twenty-one vessels, four of which were evidently turreted iron-clads, and the rest gunboats or transports, appeared in North Edisto River. These vessels could be plainly seen by our pickets at White Point, and the transports seemed [...]
March 25, 1863, The New York Herald Our Expeditionary Correspondence. ON THE WAY, SEVENTY-FIVE MILES DOWN THE TALLAHATCHIE, March 10, 1863. The date I prefix to this communication gives the present locality of the Yazoo Pass expedition with as much exactness as I can command. We have reached a very fair stream for navigation by [...]
March 25, 1863, Memphis Daily Appeal (Jackson, Mississippi) Mrs. L. C. W. Brown: Dear Madam: Your letter, with one thousand dollars, contributed by the ladies of Natchez for the support of the Soldiers’ lunch house, was handed me this morning by Mr. Howe. Allow me, in behalf of the brave soldiers whose sufferings they nobly [...]
March 25, 1863, The New York Herald We have some important intelligence from the Yazoo expedition today. It comes by way of St. Louis, and is to the effect that the steamer Dilligent, with the Eighth Missouri, had succeeded in entering Yazoo rover above Haines’ Bluff. Her course was through Cypress Bayou, which debouches into [...]
March 24, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois) We saw a lady–a lady in every sense of the term–at the market yesterday morning, with a “Copperhead” pin for a shawl fastening. We understand it was not worn merely as a matter of convenience, but as a badge to show she was for the Union and the [...]
March 24, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The object of this war, on the part of the Confederate States, is the preservation of independence against unjust and vindictive assailants. It is the business of our Government and Generals to wage the war in that manner which will be most effective to the end desired. Throughout the [...]
March 24, 1863, The New York Herald The news from the Southwest today is important. It is stated that on the 14th instant Admiral Farragut came into action with his fleet at Port Hudson, and after a brisk engagement with the batteries, succeeded in passing the fort with all his fleet, consisting of eight vessels, [...]
March 26, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) The Southern Recorder says: “Our last bill for printing paper, such as we now use for the Recorder, was at the rate of $14 per ream. Of the propriety of raising the price of subscription our readers can judge, when we state that paper of the same [...]
March 24, 1863, Daily Southern Crisis (Jackson, Mississippi) We learn from the Atlanta Intelligencer that, one day last week, a party of ladies some dozen in number, the wives and daughters of soldiers in the field, were seen parading the streets of that city who represented themselves and their families to have been deprived of [...]
March 23, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas) Editor Telegraph:-As I believe that there are many in the “Lone Star State” who like to hear from the brigade, I will occupy a short space in your columns with the account of what I saw in Richmond. Among the first attractions in which Texas has an interest, [...]
March 23, 1863, Charleston Mercury 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 23, 1863, The New York Herald Although no positive information regarding the movements of the army and naval forces, either on the Atlantic coast or the Mississippi, has been received by the government for some days past – at which points some great enterprises were looked for – still, the military authorities at Washington [...]
March 23, 1863, The Charleston Mercury GOOD NEWS FROM THE YAZOO PASS EXPEDITION – THE YANKEE FLEET RETREATING. MOBILE, March 21. – The Advertiser has the following despatch, which it gives as official: FORT PEMBERTON, YAZOO RIVER, March 20. LORING has whipped the enemy back from this point, and they are now in full retreat [...]