1863 July 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.

"Our usually quiet and unpretending little town of Gettysburg has become historic."
-- Gettysburg Compiler, July 13, 1863

"Our special telegrams this morning give a clear understanding of the momentous events which have taken place at Gettysburgh, Penn."
-- New York Times, July 4, 1863

"July promises to be a month of important battles, if not the great month of the war."
-- Richmond Dispatch, July 3, 1863

"Take it for all in all, the month of July, 1863, is the most memorable month in the war."
-- New York Times, July 31, 1863

"Arrangements have been made to purchase a part of the battle-field at Gettysburgh, for a cemetery, in which it is proposed to gather the remains of our dead. The ground embraces the point of the desperate attack made upon the left centre of our army. Eight other States have already united with Pennsylvania in this project."
-- New York Times, July 31, 1863

"We feel satisfied that Gettysburg and its loyal citizens will not be forgotten when the history of this War is written by the future historian."
-- Gettysburg Compiler, July 20, 1863

Highlights of the July 1863 Edition:

- Gettysburg Campaign concludes
- Battle of Gettysburg
- Largest battle of the war
- Pickett's Charge
- Devil's Den
- Cemetery Hill
- Seminary Ridge
- Little Round Top, Chamberlain and the 20th Maine
- Gen. George Armstrong Custer and the Michigan cavalry
- Approximately 51,000 Americans fell on the field of battle
- Stuart's Ride
- Skirmish of Carlisle
- Battle of Hunterstown
- Lee's Retreat
- Engagement at Fairfield
- Battle of Monterey Gap
- Battle of Williamsport
- Battle of Boonsboro
- Second Battle of Funkstown
- Battle of Manassas Gap
- Gen. Meade (USA) is promoted to Brigadier General

- Close of Grant's Vicksburg Campaign
- Siege of Vicksburg concludes
- Gen. Grant (USA) is promoted to Major General
- Battle of Helena
- The foothold for opening the Little Rock Campaign
- Battle of Young's Point
- Jackson, Mississippi Expedition

- Morgan's Raid/Great Raid of 1863/Calico Raid (Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio) concludes
- Martial law is proclaimed in Cincinnati
- Battle of Tebb's Bend
- Battle of Lebanon
- Battle of Corydon
- Battle of Buffington Island
- Battle of Salineville
- Gen. John Hunt Morgan (CSA) is captured

- Tullahoma Campaign concludes (a.k.a. Middle Tennessee Campaign)

- Charleston, South Carolina
- Battle of Fort Wagner
- Battle of Grimball's Landing
- Second Battle of Fort Wagner/Morris Island
- Siege of Charleston Harbor begins

- Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana concludes

- Second Bayou Teche Campaign. Taylor's Operations in West Louisiana continue
- Battle of Kock's Plantation

- Sioux/Dakota War
- Battle of Big Mound
- Battle of Dead Buffalo Lake
- Battle of Stony Lake

- Shimonoseki Campaign begins (Japan)
- Treaty Powers; United States, Great Britain, France, Netherlands
- Battle of Shimonoseki Straits

- Indian Territory (Oklahoma)
- Battle of Cabin Creek
- Battle of Honey Springs
- Largest battle fought in Indian Territory
- White soldiers were minority in both USA and CSA forces
- 1st Kansas Colored Infantry (USA)
- Cherokee, Osage, Shawnee, Seneca, Delaware, Kickapoo, Quapaw (USA)
- Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek forces (CSA)

- New-York Draft Riots

- George Bickley, founder of the Knights of the Golden Circle, is arrested in Indiana and sent to a military prison in Louisville

- Emancipation in Missouri
- "July first, eighteen hundred sixty-three, is a date destined to be forever memorable in American history. It will figure as the starting point of State emancipation."
- New York Times, July 3, 1863