1863 May Am Civil War Gazette

The Extra!!! Edition of the American Civil War Gazette contains back issues as well as additional articles that did not appear in the daily edition.

Highlights of the May 1863 Edition:

- "The Fall of Richmond"
- The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Bulletin and New-York Times report that:
- Richmond was taken on May 9 by Gen. Keyes via Yorktown, with "The National Flag Floating Over the Rebel Capital"
- Gen. Stoneman cut off Gen. Lee in front preventing his support of Richmond
- Gen. Hooker recrossed the Rapahannock and was behind Lee's army pinning Lee between Hooker and Stoneman
- All three reported later confirmation of the fall of Richmond

- "The Fall of Vicksburgh"
- It is widely reported in the North that Gen. Grant defeated Gens. Pemberton and Johnston, taking Vicksburg, Mississippi

"The statements of correspondents ignorant of the real facts, or writing in the interests of particular commands, too often form the basis of newspaper comments and of public opinion in regard to military operations; and events follow so rapidly on the heels of each other that first impressions rarely give way to more correct views founded on authentic accounts."
- J. A. Early to the Richmond Enquirer, May 11, 1863

- Death of Stonewall Jackson from wounds at Chancellorsville

- Chancellorsville Campaign concludes
- Most newspaper refer to it as "the Battles on the Rappahannock" or "the Battles at Fredericksburgh"
- Early, the Richmond Dispatch has an article on what the name should be, but dislikes Chancellorsville
- Battle of Chancellorsville
- Stonewall Jackson mortally wounded
- Lee's "perfect battle"
- Second Battle of Fredericksburg
- Battle of Salem Church
- Stoneman's raid

- Grant's Vicksburg Campaign
- Siege of Vicksburg begins
- Battle of Snyder's Bluff
- Battle of Port Gibson
- Battle of Raymond
- Battle of Jackson, Mississippi
- Battle of Champion Hill
- Battle of Big Black River Bridge
- Grierson's Raid

- Marmaduke's Second Expedition into Missouri concludes
- Battle of Chalk Bluff

- Streight's Raid into Alabama and Georgia
- Skirmish at Blountsville
- Skirmish at Black Creek
- Skirmish at Blount's Plantation
- Engagement at Cedar Bluff

- Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana begins
- Battle of Plains Store/Springfield Road

- The U.S. Navy awards its first 44 Medal of Honor recipients

- British explorer Speke locates the source of the Nile river

- Gen. Earl Van-Dorn (CSA) is killed in his headquarters by Dr. James Peters, jealous of an affair with his wife

- Review of Sir Charles Lyell's new publication "The Geological Evidences Of The Antiquity Of Man, With Remarks On Theories Of The Origin Of Species, By Variation"
- Lyell's work greatly influenced Charles Darwin
- Lyell influenced Darwin's voyage on the HMS Beagle as well

- United States Colored Troops
- The Massachusetts 54th leaves Boston for the field
- The Massachusetts 55th begins recruiting