Daily Advocate Baton Rouge, Louisiana June 9, 1861 The great difficulty of obtaining printing paper, and the limited supply we now have on hand, compels us to stop our Daily exchange with a large number of our cotemporaries. The Weekly will, we trust, compensate them for the loss. When our arrangements are perfected for procuring [...]

Daily Times Leavenworth, Kansas June 9, 1861 Lawrence Journal Capt. C. R. Jennison, with a large body of Cavalry, arrived in town on Tuesday. The company numbers one hundred and eight, rank and file, a portion of which were left behind, but will soon join the company here. It is the intention of Capt. J. [...]

Weekly Arkansas State Gazette Little Rock, Arkansas June 8, 1861 Everywhere in the Confederate States have the ladies worked unremittingly for the benefit of the volunteer companies organized for the defence of their country against northern aggression. Flags, stitched and embellished by their fingers, have been presented in great numbers, sand bags and clothing made, [...]

Daily Times Leavenworth, Kansas June 8, 1861 The Albany Standard scorchingly, though good humoredly, comments as follows: “We hope the ‘world’ will make a note of this fact. When a Mississippi soldier is shot down, he should have a bed of rose leaves to die on. He should feed on canvass-back ducks, and have two [...]

Southern Confederacy Atlanta, Georgia June 8, 1861 The “Palmer Guards,” company C, Texas Battalion, Captain A. G. Dickerson—80 men—passed through here yesterday morning on their way to Virginia. They are well armed and drilled, and are capable of doing the best of service. Capt. D. was accompanied by his beautiful and accomplished bride, who is [...]

Texas Republican Marshal Texas June 8, 1861 R. W. Loughery, Esq. Dear Sir:—The Marshall Guards, after leaving home reached Swanson’s Landing, where they expected to take a boat the same day for New Orleans. They were disappointed, however, and did not leave there until Thursday morning. The steamers Texas and Fleta, were both above, and [...]

Daily Times Leavenworth, Kansas, June 7, 1861 We conversed yesterday with Mr. James Johnson who has been forced to leave Missouri, because he loved his country, and would not forswear his obligations to it. In company with Mr. Henry Lewis and family, he was driven from the State, by a mob of about fifty Secessionists. [...]

Daily Times Leavenworth, Kansas, June 7, 1861 [From the Chicago Tribune.] M. A. E. Matthews, formerly of Stark co., Ohio, has just accomplished one of the severest journeys ever undertaken in America by one who is not exactly a fugitive slave—having traveled on foot from Houston county, Texas, to Ironton, Mo., sleeping in woods and [...]

Daily Times Leavenworth, Kansas June 5, 1861 Twelve men belonging to the Steuben Guards and the Governor’s Guards, of Elwood, left Camp Lincoln on Monday night, arrived in Kickapoo at 12 o’clock, seized two skiffs, and crossed the river, landing above Iatan. Early yesterday morning they sent two of their number to Iatan, for the [...]

Daily Times Leavenworth, Kansas June 5, 1861 Rochester Union. A letter received here this morning by a lady of this city from her friend, the wife of an army officer, recently from Texas, indicates the feeling of those officers and soldiers of the U. S. army, who were compelled to give their paroles before leaving [...]

Daily Constitutionalist Augusta, Georgia June 4, 1861 A letter from a late Union man of Texas to a New York Journal says: I have seen it stated in Northern papers that men were forced unwillingly to join the ranks of the Confederate army. I deny it in toto. Let not our Northern invaders flatter themselves [...]

Daily Advocate Baton Rouge June 2, 1861 We see very much in Northern prints about the flag of the Union. The speeches of Northern orators are full of allusions to the starry banner, says the Montgomery Advertiser, and the people are appealed to by all the sacred memories which cluster about that banner, to stand [...]

Headquarters Department of Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg, Va., June 2, 1861. Sir: I have the honor to state, for the information of the commanding general, that four of the enemy’s armed steamers commenced firing on our batteries at Aquia Creek yesterday morning, at about 9 o’clock, and continued until about 4 p.m. On our side nobody was [...]

Daily Times Leavenworth, Kansas June 2, 1861 We learn that a man living some fifteen miles from Butler, in Missouri, was whipped so badly that when the fiends attempted to end their orgies by riding him on a rail he fell off, a corpse. His crime was voting for Lincoln last fall. Every day teams [...]

Memphis Daily Appeal Tennessee June 1, 1861 Those who attend market with vegetables frequently have some left over, which are spoiled and thrown away before next morning; the city almoner desires us to state that if market people will leave such vegetables at his office, on Second street, east side,  four doors north of Madison, [...]

From Photographs by Whitehurst, of Washington, and Hinton, of Montgomery, Alabama Attorney General Benjamin, Secretary Mallory, Secretary Memminger, Vice-President Stephens, Secretary Walker, President Davis, Postmaster Reagan, Secretary Toombs. Harper’s Weekly, June 1, 1861

The Constitutional Alexandria, Louisiana June 1, 1861 Some miscreants, on the night of Friday last, taking advantage of the absence of the patrol, consequent on the great fatigue undergone by all on that day, committed various nocturnal depredations, such as tearing down fences and letting cattle into honest citizens enclosures,  carrying away vehicles, up-turning and [...]

Daily Times Leavenworth, Kansas June 1, 1861 About one o’clock yesterday afternoon, the troops from Forts Smith, Arbuckle, Cobb and Washita passed up Fifth Street, on their way to Fort Leavenworth. Several ambulances, containing officers’ wives, and about eighty wagons containing army stores, with about six hundred horses and mules attached, followed the soldiers, the [...]

Before any battles, Dorothea Dix says don’t send women of any age looking for employment unless the need is announced. The New York Times May 31, 1861 All persons are respectfully and earnestly requested not to send to army quarters, or moving stations, women of any age in search of employment, unless the want of [...]

The New York Times May 31, 1861 Chicago, Thursday, May 30. Up to last night it was thought that Senator Douglas was getting better. Since then he has been gradually sicking, and fears are entertained by his friends and physicians that he will not live through the night.

Daily Constitutionalist August, Georgia May 31, 1861 The Lavaca Gulf Key, of the 14th, inst., has a full and very interesting account of the surrender of the United States troops in Texas, under command of Lieut. Col. Reeve, to the Confederate force, under command of Col. Van Dorn, which we copy, as follows: Our fellow-townsman, [...]

Memphis Daily Appeal Tennessee May 31, 1861 We have extreme pleasure in stating that ample relief will be extended to the families of those who are in the army of their country and whose families are without the means to maintain themselves. It was proposed to pay such families in orders on the county treasurer; [...]

Memphis Daily Appeal Tennessee May 31, 1861 At one o’clock to-day the two negroes, Moses and Isaac, found guilty of murder, are to be executed in the field on the Raleigh road, this side the fair grounds. The prisoners will leave the jail about noon, escorted by Capt. Jackson’s company of Bluff City Guards and [...]

The New York Times May 30, 1861 Boston, Wednesday, May 29. The steam gun-boat Pembroke, from Fortress Monroe on the 26th inst., arrived here to-day. She brings a mail and several passengers, including refugees from the South, most of whom had to leave their entire property in the hands of the rebels.