The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-07-14
to duty in Charleston Harbor and directed to
superintend the preparation and armament Of


defenses Of Cumberland Sound.
Nov. accompany H, 14th N. Y. State
| Militia engaged in a skirmish on the road from
Falls Church to Fairfax Court House, Va. with
a detachment of the 1st Va. Cav, commanded
by Lieut-Col. Fitzhugh Lee Union loss, two
killed, one wounded, and 10 missing; Confed.
crates one killed, two slightly wounded. The
| Confederate guide, Mr.. John c. Chichester
| was MORALLY wounded.
A number of Union men of East Tennessee
| were captured at Doe River.
Wagon.trains Nos. and were attacked
and captured by an armed party of Confeder-
ates near Warrensburg, Mo.
The steamer Platte City was attacked at
Prices Landing, Mo-, by Gen. JEFF Thompson's
command.
A Confederate masked battery at New Inlet,
n. c., exchanged shots with the U. S. s. Month
cello
Nov. 19-Maj.- Gen. B. F. Butler was ordered
| to delay the embarkation of his expeditionary
force and to repair Immediately to the City OF
| Washington.
Gen. Johnston called upon Tennessee for all
the militia and volunteer force that can be
| armed.
Maj Gen. Henry w. Halleck assumed COM
mand of the Department of the Missouri.
Tho Confederate forces under the command
of Col. Douglas II. Cooper, consisting of six
companies of LIST Choctaw and Chickasaw Mtd
Rifles, detachment of 9th Tex. Cav, Mcln-
toshs Creek regiment and the Creek and SEM
mole battalion-in all, about ], 400 men-were
| engaged at Round Mountain, Ind. Ter, with a
| force of from 800 to 1900 Creeks and Seminoles
and from 200 to 300 negroes, under the COM
mand of Hopoeithleyohola, Head Chief of the
| Creek Nation. The Confederates lost six killed,
four wounded, and one missing.
| The American ship Harvey Birch was cap
| tured and destroyed by the G. s. S. Nashville.
N4,- Izk~z IL. Azrr ~f sfo~bc
battalion, Ark. Cav, commanded by Capts.
Chrisman and Mcneil, lost one man wounded
| in skirmish at Brownsville Ky.
Maj Gen. David Hunter, U. s. Army, as
sumed command of the Department of Kansas.
Cos. A and c. Cass County H. G. Cav, engaged
in skirmish at Butler Mo.
detachment of the eth Kan. Cav. had one
man wounded in skirmish at Little Santa
Fe, Mo.
Nov 21.-Brig. Gen. A. S. Johnston, C. s..
Army, called on the Governors of Mississippi
and Alabama for all the armed men they could
raise.
Brig. Gen. Lloyd Tilghman, C. s. Army, as
| signed to command of Forts Henry and Donel-
son, Tenn.
The United States Commissary and Quarter
master stores at Warsaw, Mo-, were destroyed
by fire. Capt George F. Kennedy, command
ing post, says that it was done and deliber-
ately planned by the enemy"
The G. S. S. Nashville having coaled, left Ber-
muda on the 9Th, and arrived at Southampton
England, on the 2lst and went into dry dock
for repairs.
Nov 22.-The U. s. steamers New London
and r. r. Cuyler captured the steamers Anna
and Henry Lewis and schooner A. j. View in
Mississippi Sound.
Fire was opened from Fort Pickens and the
batteries OH Santa Rosa Island on the Confed-
crate lines about Pensacola. Fla, and continued
during the 23d. The U. S. S. Niagara and Rich
mond co-operated. Union loss, two killed and
II wounded; Confederate, one killed and 20
wounded.
The Department of Indian Territory, en-
bracing the Indian country west of Arkansas
and north of Texas, constituted, and Brig. Gen..
Albert Pike, Provisional Army, Confederate
States, assigned to command.
Nov. 23.-The u. s. Steamers John L. Lock
wood and Shawsheen sheled Confederate
camp on the Yorktown road, about mile from
the James River, Va.
Brig Gen. s. r. Anderson, C. s. Army, as.
signed to command of the forces on the Hunters
vile line, w. Va.
Brig. Gen. W. T. Sherman q. s. A., having
reported for duty in the Department of the
Missouri, was directed to visit the different
stations in the Department, and to report in
detail as to strength ETC., and generally, all
things considered, to give the Commanding Gen.
for service.
The C. S. s. Sumter left the port of St. Pierre,
Martinique, and escaped the U. S. S. Iroquois,
which had been off that port since the 18th
Nov. A.-The U. S. Steamers Flag, Poca-
hontas, Seneca, Seminole, and Augusta, under
the command Of Comdr. John Rodgers, took
possession of Tybee Island. Ga.
Col. N. B. Forrest, Confederate Tennessee
Cav, left Hopkinsville, KY, ON an expedition
to Csseyvlle, Eddyville and other places in
Kentucky, returning on the 5th. DR.. Van
Wyck, Surgeon of his regiment, was shot and
killed near Marion, Ky. detachment of the
9Th Mo-, under Lieut.-Col. James Peckham,
with one piece of thelChicsgo Light Artillery,
on the transports Golden State and Lake Erie
No. 3, accompanied by the gunboat Conestoga,
reached Caseyville OIL Dec. 1, the day after
Forrest had left. Col. Peckham returned to
Paducah on the Cd.
skirmish at Lancaster Mo. The 1st N. E.
Mo- engaged.
The Cass County H. G.. Cav. engaged in a
skrmish at Johnstown, Mo.
Nov. 25.-Capt. Arson Stager, A. @. NJ, was
assigned TO duty as General Manager of the
Government telegraph lines.
The Confederate Secretary of War issued the
following instructions to the military officers in
command in East Tennessee in relation to the
prisoners taken by them engaged in the Revolt
of Unionists in East Tennessee "1st all
such as can be identified as having been en-.
gagged in bridge burning are to be tried sum.
marily by drum-head court-martial, and. If
found guilty. executed on the spot by hanging.
1t would be we'll to leave their bodies hanging
in the vicinity of the burned bridges: I'd, ali
such as have not been SO engaged are to be
treated as prisoners Of war" ii
Maj..GeE. Halleck was appointed and com.
missioned by the Governor of Missouri Major.
General of the Missouri State Militia.
The c. S. S. Sumter captured and boarded
the ship Montmorency, of Bath, Me.
Nov. 25.-The u. S. S. Pawnee, Comdr. p
Drayton, accompanied by the Unadilla, Penn
bina. and Coast Survey steamer Vixen, made
a reconnaissance of st. Helena Sound. S. C..
and adjacent waters, returning ON the 2stl.
Nov. 26.-Cos. + and NJ, Sd Pa. Cav. -four
officers and "a mem, engaged in a skirmish
near Vienna, Va, with detachment of the
1st N. c. Cav. (1s officers and 14O mem.
Union loss, one killed, six wounded, and 26
captured Confederate, no casualties
The U. S. steamers Flag, Savannah Au.
gusta, Seneca, Pocahontas, and Florida ex
changed shots with the Confederate squadron
(three vessels) in Tybee Bay Ga.
Co. Z, 9TH Kan. Cav, lost one man killed
and one wounded in a skirmish at Independ.
ence, Mo.
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