The New York Herald, May 11, 1863

Front page map of Colonel Dodge's Expedition

New York, Monday, May 11, 1863. 8 pages. Headlines and stories include Our Cavalry Raids. Success of the Tuscumbia Movement. Reported Capture of Colonel Streight and His Whole Command in Northern Georgia. Additional Details of Col. Grierson's Operations. Immense Damage To The Rebels. Interesting From Rosecrans' Department. Movements of Wheeler's Cavalry. Confirmation of the Shooting of Van Dorn. Arrival of Deserters from the Rebel Army. Their Statements as to Intended Operations on the Part of...  

The New York Times, August 14, 1863

8 pages. THE SIEGE OF CHARLESTON. Arrival of the Arago, with Advices to the 10th. The Grand Assault Expected to be Made Yesterday. Reports of a Deserter from Fort Wagner. Guns Removed from Fort Sumter to James Island. The Fall of Sumter Regarded as a Certainty. Great Improvements in the Health of Our Troops. Progress of the Siege Operations. The Rebel Works. List of Deaths in Hospital from Port Royal Including Colored Troops From the 54th Massachusetts Regiment. Military News to be Suppressed; A Stringent Order From General Gillmore. The Big Gun; What the...  

The New York Times, August 18, 1863

8 pages. Front page headlines: AFFAIRS IN THE SOUTHWEST. Gen. Grant and the Trade Regulations of the Mississippi. Proposed Opening of the Cotton Trade to all Loyal Citizens. A Cavalry Expedition From Corinth. Rebel Conscripts Reporting for Duty in the National Army. The War in the Far West. Gen. Blunt's Position. Danger Thereof. A Battle Imminent. Rebel Officers. Union Men in Arkansas. Sufferings of the Loyalists. Important From North Carolina. Shameful Inefficiency of the Blockade at Wilmington. Seventeen Large Steamers Arrived There Within a Few Days....  

The New York Times, New York, May 18, 1863

8 pages. Important From New Orleans. Capture of Alexandria by Admiral Porter. General Banks' Forces in Possession. Previous Bombardment and Capture of Fort De Russy. The Great Cavalry Raid Through Mississippi. Safe Arrival of Col. Grierson's Command at Baton Rouge. Detailed Account of Their Exploits. Immense and Irreparable Damage Inflicted Upon the Enemy. Only One of Our Men Killed and Six Wounded. Proposed Organization of a Corps D'Afrique by Gen. Banks. The Great Raid in Mississippi. A Detailed Narrative of the Exploits of Our Cavalry. Wonderful...  

The New York Times, August 4, 1863

8 pages. IMPORTANT REBEL NEWS. Progress of the Siege of Charleston. Cummings Point Severely Bombarded by the Ironsides and Two Monitors. Fort Sumter and Two Rebel Batteries Engaged. A Counter Bombardment of Our Works on Morris Island. The Expedition in North Carolina. The War in Tennessee. An Expedition Into the Enemy's Country. The War in Indian Territory. Movements of the Blockade Runners. Arrival of the Florida. Quarrelling Over a Wrecked Rebel Prize. The Doings of the Rebel Pirates. The Law of the Blockade. Liability of Vessels Proceeding to Neutral...  

The New York Times, September 17, 1863

8 pages. IMPORTANT FROM CHARLESTON. Arrival of the Mary Sanford with News to Saturday. Rebel Reports to Tuesday. Our Forces Expecting Batteries on the Upper End of Morris Island. Forts Moultrie and Johnson Firing on the Working Parties. Explosion of a Rebel Magazine, The Military and Naval Situation in Charleston Harbor. The Failure of the Gallant Attack on Fort Sumter. Alleged Barbarity of Beauregard. Details of Operations. The Storming of Fort Sumter. How the Enterprise Was Planned and Why it Failed. Gallantry of Our Naval Forces. Inhuman Threats From...  

The New York Times, September 16, 1863

8 pages. THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. Continued Advance of the Cavalry. Fighting at the Rapidan. Our Passage at Raccoon Ford Disputed. The Main Body of the Rebels Reported at Richmond. The Cars Running to Culpepper. THE SIEGE OF CHARLESTON. Important Reports. Half of James Island Said to be in Our Possession. A White Flag Flying Over Fort Moultrie. Two Monitors Lying Between Sumter and Moultrie. PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION. The Habeas Corpus Suspended Throughout the United States in Certain Specified Cases By the President of the United States. [Signed in print...  

The New York Times, August 22, 1863

8 pages. Good News From Charleston. A Rebel Dispatch With Advices to Thursday Last. Bombardment of Fort Sumter by General Gillmore's Parrotts. The Fort Being Knocked to Pieces. The Fire Replied to at Very Long Intervals. The Parrotts Too Much For Sumter. Despair of Being Able to Hold the City. Non Combatants Urged to Leave. The Operations Against Charleston. Important From Kansas. A Raid by Eight Hundred Guerrillas Under Quantrell. The Town of Lawrence Sacked and Burned. Important From The West. President Lincoln to Attend a Union Mass Meeting at...  

The New York Times, August 5, 1863

8 pages. THE WAR IN VIRGINIA. Lee's Army Believed to be Again on the Retreat. The Rebels Aiming to Avoid Another General Engagement. Probable Reoccupation of Fredericksburgh. IMPORTANT FROM THE SOUTH. The Rebel Army Under Lee Massed at Culpepper. A Significant Appeal from Lee for the Return of Absent Soldiers. Entertaining Views of the Present Military Situation. Traitors at Home. An Official Rebel Account of Morgan's Raid. Adventures of a Rebel Dispatch Bearer to Vicksburgh. A Letter From Capt. Maffit of the Florida. Death of William L. Yancey. John B....  

The New York Times, September 14, 1863

8 pages. IMPORTANT FROM CHARLESTON. An Attempt to Occupy Fort Sumter. Our Forces Driven Back. The Explosion of a Magazine in Fort Moultrie. Half the Town of Moultrieville Fired and Destroyed. Dispatch From General Gillmore. Thirty six Guns Found on Morris Island. Batteries Building from which to Shell the City and the Sullivan's Island Batteries. Rebel Reports of Operations. Another Address of Beauregard. OUR VICTORY IN EAST TENNESSEE. The March of Gen. Burnside's Army. The Rebel Cavalry Driven Back. Entrance into Knoxville. Rejoicing of the People....  

Boston Evening Transcript, August 25, 1863

Boston, Tuesday Evening, August 25, 1863. Henry W. Dutton & Son, Proprietors, Transcript Building, 90 & 92 Washington Street. 4 pages. GLORIOUS NEWS. Fort Sumter Captured. Surrender of Charleston Demanded. General Beauregard Refuses. Bombardment of the City Begun. Our Success Confirmed. The Fort a Heap of Ruins. The South Wall Nearly Demolished. Non Combatants Ordered to Leave the City. The City Bombarded. The Siege of Charleston. Dispatch of Admiral Dahlgren. The Kansas Massacre. The Late Outrage in Kansas. Quantrell's Raid on Lawrence, Kansas. The...  

Providence Daily Journal, May 20, 1863

4 pages.

Rumored Evacuation of Vicksburg. Dispatches From Gen. Grant & Gen. Hurlbut. Grierson's Raid Through Mississippi. Health of the 10th Army Corps at Hilton Head. News From Gen. Hooker's Army, and more.

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"Gen. Ullman's brigade is more than filled and the new country just opened by Gen. Banks's campaign will furnish two or three divisions of negroes in response to Banks' call for a Corps d'Afrique. There is no doubt that the rebels are engaged in raising negro regiments, as it is only from such material that...