NEWS FROM NEW-ORLEANS: No Military Movements of Importance; Trouble at Baton Rouge About the Negro Soldiers (2/21/1863)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 2/21/1863

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The steamer Geo. B. McClellan, Capt. GRAY, with New-Orleans dates to the 10th, arrived yesterday.

The steamer George Cromwell, with New-Orleans dates to the 12th, also arrived last evening. The news is unimportant.

There had been no movement of Gen. BANKS' forces. There was some discontent among the troops, growing out of the unwillingness of white officers to be placed on common relations with black officers.

There was a report from Galveston that the frigate Brooklyn was aground in eleven feet of water.

There were rumors that the rebels had attacked the Mobile blockaders, after the fashion of Galveston; but nothing definite was known.

An event which had created considerable excitement was the suppression of the Daily Delta, edited by Capt. CLARK and Col. E.M. BROWN. It had not transpired what had induced the step, as up to the day before the order of suspension Gen. BANKS had appeared to be well satisfied with the management of the paper. The printers of the office called upon the editors and they advised the workmen to wait upon Gen. BANKS and represent to him that their source of subsistence was in the continuance of the paper. Upon this, the General directed that the paper be continued under the management of the bookkeeper, Mr. HENRY GREEN. There was a good deal of exultation in secession circles, and many prominent citizens had called upon Col. BROWN and Capt. CLARK and thanked them for the services rendered, but could not extort from them the cause of the act. It was thought, however, that the editors were unseated because of an article on the impolicy of excluding the captured portions of the South from the privileges of the President's proclamation. It was surmised by others that the French Consul and REVERDY JOHNSON had induced Gen.

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The American Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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News from New-Orleans: No Military Movements of Importance– 2-3
From the Rebel States: Reported Sinking of a Banks Transport by the Florida – 3-4
Important from Washington: Passage of the Bank Bill Through the House – 4-5
Important from Vicksburgh: An Immediate Attack Expected by the Rebels – 5
The Negro Troops – 5
Washington’s Birthday – 5
Enabling Acts – 5
Mutiny of Newsboys – 5-6
Editorial: Affairs in Mexico – 6
Repeal of the Paper Duty – 6
From Fatherland – 6
The Bank Bill – 6

[BroJoeK]

In December 1862 my great grandfather's 119th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment was assigned to the District of Columbus, Kentucky, under Grant's 16th Corps, Union Gen. Stephen Hurlburt commanding the 16th.
The 119th's job was to protect Grant's supply lines, on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, for his Vicksburg campaign.

After Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry captured my great grandfather's K-Company at Dyer Station, Tennessee (December 21, 1862), the 119th retreated back north to Columbus, Kentucky, on the Mississippi River.

Still in December, the 119th was ordered to move from Columbus south to Union City in northwestern Tennessee, along the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
There, in January they dug ditches in preparation for another Confederate attack and impressed locals and "contraband" to work on repairing the railroad.

Later in January, the 119th was reassigned to the District of Jackson, Tennessee, under the 16th's 2nd Division, Gen. Grenville Dodge commanding, and ordered to move from Union City south along the railroad to Humboldt, which is about 18 miles north of Jackson.
In February the 119th marched 34 miles east to Huntingdon, TN to prepare for another expected Confederate attack.

In the meantime, my great grandfather and his fellow K-Company soldiers, having been released on parole by Confederate Gen. Forrest, are sitting in a Union camp in St. Louis, waiting to be exchanged for captured Confederates, and returned to service.
They will wait several more months.

Insignias for Union 16th Corps (left - Hurlburt) and its 2nd Division (right - Dodge)

Map of routes related to the Mobile and Ohio Railroad showing stations in Tennessee and Kentucky guarded by the 119th Illinois.