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June 8, 1863 – News From Vicksburg

[Special Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.]
Cairo, June 7, 10 p. m.

The steamer Alice Dean, Capt. Pepper, bringing Vicksburg dates to Thursday, and Memphis dates to yesterday afternoon, arrived this evening.

An officer of the Alice Dean reports everything progressing as usual in the rear of Vicksburg. Sappers and miners are still burrowing in the hillside, gunboats and mortar boats are still operating, and new siege guns had opened fire on Thursday as had been anticipated, but with what result is not ascertained.

Sharpshooters still command the rebel works in the rear, and the Confederates are not allowed to show their heads without becoming the targets for hundreds of rifles.

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June 6, 1863 – Editorial Excess

The whiskey in Chattanooga must be dreadful stuff, judging by its effect on the fancy of the editor of the Rebel. He says:

The North has at length reached this point of internal combustion. The entire entrails of its body politic are diseased through and through. The great veins and arteries which once poured such electric life and such a flow of pure blood into the national cerebellum are dried up and decayed. Festering sores and fatal boils have broken out in every part. The scarlet hues of inflammation are relieved only by the disgusting gashes and seams of mortification; whilst over all the great broad, brawny, stalwart skeleton and frame-work of law and constitution, that upheld the whole, is falling in broken fragments, and slipping off in bits of rotten bone. The end is certain, though it may be slow. We shall live to see the day when all that remains of the more thriving, aspiring, and wealthy half of the Union will be a few old bones whitening on the great waste common of nationality.

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June 4, 1863 – Georgia And The Confederate Bonds

From the Rome (Ga.) Southerner.

The refusal of the Legislature to indorse Georgia’s share of the bonds will travel with the speed of electricity to the North, and from thence it will be carried on the wings of the wind throughout the civilized world. Will not our enemies consider this action of the Legislature the greatest victory for LINCOLN of the war? Can any more loans be negotiated in England and France, when these two great Powers are informed that Georgia is distrustful of the Confederate credit?

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June 2, 1863 – A Female Soldier and Her Experiences

Cupid in the Leading-Strings of Mars—Some days ago a young woman arrived in Chicago from Louisville, Ky., whose history is thus recorded in the Post of that city:

“She gave her name as Annie Lillybridge of Detroit, and stated that her parents reside in Hamilton, Canada. Last spring she was employed in a dry goods store in Detroit, where she became acquainted with a Lieut. W—— of one of the Michigan regiments, and an intimacy immediately sprang up between them. They corresponded for some time, and became much attached to each other. Some time during last summer Lieut. W—— was appointed to a position in the 21st Michigan infantry, then rendezvouing in lonia county. The thought of parting from the gay lieutenant nearly drove her mad, and she resolved to share his dangers and be near him. No sooner had she resolved upon this course than she proceeded to the act. Purchasing male attire she visited lonia, enlisted in Capt. Kavanagh’s company, 21st regiment. While in camp she managed to keep her secret from all. Not even the object of her attachment, who met her every day, was aware of her presence so near him.

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June 1, 1863 – Richmond As It Is

From the account published by the correspondent of the New York World, we extract the following description of the rebel Capitol.

So soon as we descend into the plains of beautiful Virginia, we observe the change in all that distinguishes an old from a new country. Richmond is a model of that exterior respectable convervatism which is the chief boast of that people. It is in its natural site one of the most picturesque places in the world. Richmond of to-day is, however, the Richmond of two years ago turned out of doors. With the seat of Government came also the troop of sharpers, gamesters, politicians and adventurers, from which the South was never free. The hotels are anomalous, and do not court comparison with the hotels of even Washington. On the streets may be seen the same string of tawdry men and women, a little the worse for wear. Handsome women we saw, however, whom fashion could hardly adorn. The stores are still open and equally crowded, but the shelves are very lean and bare. There is a certain effort of dress on the part of the military, but is far from being a success. The vehicles are faded and shaky; the horses poor and jaded; the streets, naturally beautiful, neglected and overrun with war
traces. Some of the private residences look quite old and comfortable.