Litchfield enquirer., 1862-01-09

DeC 10, Large DOuIeS Di ItUtlS uiSEeistu DS OeN 1 Pope in Missouri. Capture of rebe
 camp with 1900 prisoners. Gallant affair at Drainesville-retrea | of the enemy.
 Dec 20, Sixteen old whaers sunk by the Ma
 tonal forces at the mouth of Charleston
 harbor.
 Dec 22, Skrmlsh near Fortress Monroe. Dec 25, Retreat of the rebel Gen. Price to Ar l kansas
 Dec 2s, Adjustment of the Mason and slidel
 difficulty. Suspension of specie pay
 ments in New York.
 Dec 30, Delivery of the rebel commissioners
 Mason and SIidell, to the British
 CHRONOLOGY OF THE BLOCKADE. April le, Presidential proclamation authorizing I the blockade.
 April 27, Supplementary proclamation announc
 ing the blockade of North Carolina anc Virginia ports.
 May 4, The British ship Hiawatha, twice free | at by the Cumberland, escapes and gets | into Norfolk.
 May 6, The Monticello is blockading the mouth
 of the Elizabeth River. and the Quaker I .----. City is off lhe Virginia capes. May 8, Shipment of. arms viasthe Mississippi prohibited.
 May g, Blockade of Charleston by the Niagara May H., Pensacola blockaded. The Pawnee Monticello Harriet Lane and Yankee are off Fortress Monroe. May IS, Prizes arrive at Philadelphia. Savan nah blockaded.
 May 20, At this date six American flag ships with full rank Commodores attached belong to the blockading squadron. May P, Complaints of the inefficiency of the blockade, particularly of Charleston South Carolina The Niagara captures
 the ship Gen. Parkhill off Charleston. May 9, Blockade of the Mississippi established May 27, Mobile blockaded.
 May 28, Blockade of Pensacola considered thor ough rfd effective.
 The Brooklyn blockading off the
 mouths of the Mississippi. June l, At this date twelve ships, two barks one brig and five schooners had been captured by the blockadng squadron We have at this date our first iutima- tion of an te npt to raise Confederate navy Reports received from New Or leans, state that a fotilla of gunboats and a floating battery are being con- structed there
 June 4, Engagement between the Harriet Lane and rebel battery at the mouth of the Nansemund River
 June 5, At this date the Massachusetts had cap tured twenty five prizes at the Passes of the Mississippi.
 June H. Blockade of Apalachlcola by the Mont gomery.
 June 9, Blockade of Mississippi sound. July l, The Sumter privateer runs the blockade at New Orleans.
 July 4, It is announced that thirty seven men of war and thirty nine steam gunboats are engaged in the blockading service.- Blockade of Galveston eStablished.- Seven prizes taken there by the South Carolina between the 4th and 1th ol July.
 July l7, The pirate Sumter is supplied with
 coal at Curacoa. July 20, Reinforcement of the blockading squad ron at the mouths of the Mississippi. July 30. The pirate Sumter supplied with coal at Trinidad. Aug 4, Destruction of the rebel privateer Petrel hy the ttlt!- Lawrence -r"'--. Aug 9, A steamer runs the blockade at Charles
 ton. Great complaints of the ineffiaien- cy of the blockade at that port. Aug l6, Reports of privateers abound. Inefi
 cheney of the blockade of North Carroll na ports. Vessels from Wilmington and Beaufor. arrive at Halifax and other British ports. Aug l7, Charleston blockadng squadron in creased. It consists now of the Roa. noke, Vandalia. Seminole and Iroquois Fernandina strictly blockaded. Vessels
 arrive at Havannah from Savannah and New Orleans
 Aug 2s, The ship Finland burnt by the R. R
 Cuyler of Apalachicoa. Aug 2S. Capture of the Ilatteras forts by the United States squadron. Sept 6, Charleston is blockaded by the Wabash and Vandalia. IA xl T,,1, J, the United States frigate Colorado of Pensacola harbor Oct ,, Great slaughter among the enemy at Hat
 teras by the Monticello's guns. Oct 7th Unsuccessful attempt to cut out pri vateer at Beaufort
 Oct 8, Mobile is said to he thoroughly blockaded Oct II, Escape of the Theodora from Charles
 ton harbor with Mason and Slidell on l board. A rebel squadron under Rollins engages the National fleet at the head o l the Mississippi passes. and is driven of Oct Is. The ship Thomas Watson, attempting to get into Charleston. is burnt to the l waters edge by the blockadng squad
 ron. The schooner Emily 'Eenro 'k run: 1 the blockade at Savannah. and gets into
 St. Thomas. Engagement between the
 Seminole and rebel batteries at Quantico Oct 17, The Nashville runs the blockade at |
 Oct l9. Engagement between the Massachusett:
 and rebel steamboat at the mouth o
 the Mississippi. Nov 2, The rebel steamer Bermuda laden with
 cotton for Liverpool, runs the blockade | at Savannah.
 Nov :, Capture by th> United States squadron of the forts at Port Poyal entrance | Destruction off Galveston of the priva teer Royal Yacht by the Santee frigate Nov 9, Capture of Mason aud Slidell by the Sar Jacnto. s
 Nov l9, American ship Harvey Birch burnt al 1 sea by the pirate Nashville. Nov 21, Twenty five vessels laden with stone
 sail from New Bedford, to be sunk al the mouth of Charleston harbor. Nov 2l, The pirate Nashville enters the Britisf
 port of Southampton.
 Nov %, Capture by the Penguin of the schooner
 Albion of Nassau N. F.. with a cargo
 valued at Sl0n.GO0. The privateer Sum
 ter escapes the lroqunis which wa: I watching for her off Martinique. Dec l, The secretary of the Navy reports tha
 l60 prizes have been captured since tn, | commencement of the blockade by 4; ! vessels of the squadron. Dec 20, Sixteen vessels sunk at the mouth o Charleston Harbor. l The following from letter from soldier il the 9th Connecticut regiment dated Hilton Heal Dec. 2l is suggestive not only as to the way 0 doing things in that locality, hnt ip other locali ties
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