March 17, 1863, The New York Herald There is stirring news from the Southwest today, and although it may appear somewhat indistinct and mysterious in the shape it reaches us, is evidently based upon substantial facts. A despatch was received in Washington yesterday from Admiral Porter, dated before Vicksburg on the 7th inst., stating that [...]

March 17, 1863, The New York Herald From Cairo, Cincinnati, Chicago and other points we continue to receive very encouraging, though very meagre and mysterious, reports of the success of the Yazoo expedition and of the probable evacuation of Vicksburg by the rebels. Our latest despatches from the West inform us that our Yazoo gunboat [...]

March 17, 1863, The Charleston Mercury PANOLA, MISS., Match 14. – A gentleman direct from Coldwater says that the enemy’s force in the Yazoo consists of two formidable gunboats, the Chillicothe and De Kalb, two rams, with cotton defences, three gunboats not deemed formidable, three batteries, three hundred cavalry, and 10,000 infantry. Some boats not [...]

MARCH 16th.—Gen. Hill is moving toward Newbern, N. C., and may attack the enemy there. The weather continues dreadful—sleeting; and movements of armies must perforce be stayed. But the season of slaughter is approaching. There was an ominous scantiness of supply in the market this morning, and the prices beyond most persons—mine among the rest. [...]

March 16, 1863, The Charleston Mercury IMPORTANT FROM NORTH CAROLINA – ‘BETHEL’ HILL ADVANCING ON NEWBERN. RALEIGH, March 15. – The Kinston correspondent of the State Journal says that Gen. D. H. HILL came upon the enemy outposts at Deep Gully, on the Trent Road, eight miles below and this side of Newbern, yesterday morning. [...]

March 16, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The march of events during the last thirty days has done much to dispel the hopes of early peace, so generally entertained at the opening of the year. Since the bloody affair at Murfreesboro, the hostile forces in Tennessee, as well as those upon the Rappahannock and the Mississippi, [...]

March 16, 1863, The Charleston Mercury We take pleasure in recording the particulars of what is considered one of the boldest and most successful feats of the war. We allude to the brilliant foray of Captain JOHN H. MICKLER, and a detachment of his Company (11th Regiment, S. C. V.), on last Thursday night, which [...]

March 16, 1863, The New York Herald The intelligence from the Southwest today is full of interest. General Tuttle received a despatch at Cairo yesterday from Fort Donelson, stating that our cavalry […..] twenty-eight miles of the fort. The country people for miles around were coming in with various reports. The rebels are reported to [...]

March 15, 1863, The New York Herald Our Port Royal Correspondence. PORT ROYAL, S.C., March 7, 1863. The gunboat Conemaugh, Lieutenant Commander Eastman, accomplished a very clever thing last week while on her post off Georgetown, S.C. A steamer was discovered one morning making her way towards the entrance of the North Santee, which lies [...]

March 15, 1863, The New York Herald A telegram was received in Washington yesterday from General Rosecrans, stating that information had reached him of the evacuation of Vicksburg by the rebels. It was known that they have been for some time past moving their stores into the interior, but it was thought at Washington that [...]

March 15, 1863, The New York Herald Interesting Marriage Ceremony in General Hooker’s Army. The Altar Formed of All the Regimental Drums, &c., &c., &c. Our Falmouth Correspondence. IN CAMP, NEAR FALMOUTH, March 13, 1863. Yesterday was a gala day in the camp of one of the brigades stationed here, or, as one of the [...]

March 14, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The Savannah Republican, of yesterday, gives a full and highly interesting account of the late engagement at Fort McAllister, from which we condense the following: Fort McAllister is situated on the right bank of the Ogeechee, and occupies the farthest point of mainland jutting out into the marsh. The [...]

March 14, 1863, The Charleston Mercury War is now, by necessity and the law of self-preservation, the occupation of the people of the Confederate States. War, vigorous, energetic war, is the only road to Peace, and the only mode of achieving our Independence. Active, untiring, vigilant preparation is the business of the hour. – And [...]

March 14, 1863, The New York Herald There are symptoms of a coming movement in General Hooker’s army. The transportation resources are being cut down, and officers have been notified that all superfluous baggage must be sent home. The officers of the line are to be allowed nothing in the shape of camp equipage, except [...]

March 14, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The Northern papers publish the report of Commodore DUPONT in relation to the attack of our gunboats upon the blockading fleet. He mentions that our iron-clads went out of Charleston, unperceived by the blockaders, and attacked the blockaders; that the Mercedita was first attacked, and a heavy rifle shell [...]

March 13, 1863, The New York Herald The news from the army on the Rappahannock today is unimportant. The pickets of the enemy along certain portions of the line on the opposite side of the Rappahannock are one half negroes and one half white men. The negroes are armed and uniformed the same as the [...]

March 13, 1863, The Charleston Mercury There is a general prejudice against the Stars and Bars; though in itself a handsome banner. It is said to be too like the old Yankee concern, which has become so hateful. Fortunately, it is not the Flag under which our armies have won their most signal successes; and [...]

March 13, 1863, The New York Herald We publish in another column, from our special correspondent, a full account of the bombardment of Fort McAllister, on the Ogeechee river, and of the destruction of the Nashville by the United States gunboat Montauk, commanded by Lieutenant Worden, who has covered himself with glory. It is true [...]

March 12, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The shrewd correspondent of the Savannah Republican, ‘P.W.A.’ writing from this city on the 10th instant, says: It is not probable that the enemy will abandon the Southern coast without making an attack upon Charleston of Savannah. Their expenditures of money have been too heavy, and their preparations too [...]

March 12, 1863, The New York Herald RUTHERFORD’S CREEK, FOUR MILES NORTH OF COLUMBIA, March 11, 1863. General Granger came up with the enemy at this place yesterday afternoon. The advance guard were skirmishing yesterday, and lost two killed and several wounded, but captured several rebels. One of them reports that Col. Coburn, with two [...]

March 12, 1863, The New York Herald General Hooker had a long conference in Washington yesterday with the President, Gen. Halleck, Mr. Stanton and the Committee on the Conduct of the War, and returned to the Rappahannock last night. A reconnoitering party sent out a few days ago, consisting of a detachment of the First [...]

March 11, 1863, The Charleston Mercury HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT GEORGIA, Savannah, March 9th, 1863. (General Orders No. 21.) In calling the attention of the troops in this District to the successful repulse, on the 3d inst., of three turreted iron-clad gunboats and three mortar boats by Fort McAllister, the Brigadier General commanding again returns his hearty [...]

March 11, 1863, The New York Herald Away up in the Rocky Mountain region, north of Utah and Colorado, and West of Nebraska, lies the country named Shosone on some of our maps, to be hereafter known as Idaho, pronounced with the accent on the first and last syllables. It embraces four degrees of latitude [...]

March 11, 1863, The Charleston Mercury The Charleston correspondent of the Mobile Advertiser and Register, in alluding to the constant threats of the Yankees in regard to the attacked upon this place, says: The struggle, when it comes, will certainly be of a fearful character. It will be the shock of tremendous forces, the relative [...]