Following the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with day by day writings of the time, currently 1863.

by John Beauchamp Jones

            AUGUST 3D.—Cloudy, but no rain.

            The press dispatches last night assert that still another raiding party, besides Stoneman’s, was dispersed or captured.

            It is rumored to-day that Beauregard has sprung a mine under Grant’s fortifications. This may be so. Later. It was not so.

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