The National tribune., 1892-09-22
The GREAT. REBELLION.
Chronological Record of Operations
from April | to 6, 1862.
SHENANDOAH VALLEY.
Battle Of Pittsburg Landing, or
Shiloh, Tenn.
PENINSULA, VA.
Naval Operations About Island
No. 10.
PENINSULA, VA.
Compiled from the Official Records of the War;

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ing in q skirmish at Salem, Va.
One section of Capt. Munch's Minnesota bat
terry. detachment of the 9th Ohio Cav, and
two battalons Of infantry from the 57th and
77th Ohio embarked on the steamers EN-
press and Tecumseh, proceeded up the Ten.
nessee River from Pittsburg Landing, conveyed
by the U. S. steamers Cairo, Tyler, and Lex
ington. The object of the expedition was to
dislodge the enemy from batteries erected near
Eastport Miss, but finding them abandoned,
the expedition returned the same day.
The Bonneville Battalion, Mo. s. M. Cav.
and Capt. Peabody's Company 1st Mo. Cav,
lost two men wounded in skirmish on the
! Little Sn, Mo.
The 5th H. Cav. lost two men captured in q
skirmish at Doniphan. Mo.
| Brig Gen. James w. Denver assumed COM
mand of the District of Kansas.
April 1-2.-The Headquarters of the Army
| of the Potomac were transferred to the vicinity
of Fort Monroe
The Union forces advanced from Strasburs
to Woodstock and Edenburg, Va. The ad.
vance was led by the Third Brigade. First
| Division, Ranks's Fifth Corps. In a skirmish
| near Edenburg the goth Pa. lost one man killed
| and one wounded. The I'd Mass also lost one
man wounded.
| April 2.-Col. J. F. Farnsworth. with his
regiment. the 9Th Ill. Cav, made reconnois-
sancs to the Rappahannock River
| A detachment of Co. Ii, 18th Mo- S. NJ. Cav,
| lost two men killed and three wounded in .
skirmish at Walkersvile Mo.
A boat expedition consisting of five armed
boats. under First Master J. v. Johnston, from
| the u. S. gunboats Benton, st. Louis Cincinnati.
| Pttsburg, and Mound City, accompanied by 80
| men from Co. A, AID ILL.,, Col. Geo. w. Roberts.
the whole expedition being under Col. Roberts,
attacked, captured, and spiked the guns in No.
| Fort On Tennessee shore above Island No. 10.
The Confedorates fed on their first approach,
and offered very little resistance.
| The schooner Kate, of Nassau, N. p, was
chased ashore and destroyed by the U. 8. block
| aiding squadron off Wilmington, n. G. While
attempting to get her off the Federals were
| fred upon by party of Confederates on shore,
| who were dispersed by few shells from the
Mount Vernon and Fernandina.
| April 2-4.-ReconnoissagCes were made from
! Commerce and Cape Girardeau, No., by Col.
Toler, Goth Ill, and Capt. Linsay Murdoch, of
| tine Missouri Militia Cavalry. to Jackson, White
water, and Dallas, Mo-
| April "a detachment of the Sd Conn. Cav.
| lost two men wounded in a skirmish at Moore.
| field, w. Va.
a detachment of 400 men, under command
| of Col. William Fl. III. Taylor, 9Th Ohio Cav.
made reconnaissance toward Corinth from
| Pittsburg Landing. The advance.guard at.
| terey, Tenn, wounding one and taking another
| prisoner.
Col. ]. D. Webster Chief of staff OF Gen.
| Grant, went up the Tennessee River to East
port, Miss, and Chiekssaw, Ala, on the gum
| boat Tyler, with the view of determining the
| Cornth without special danger OF bringing On
| an engagement. He reported that a battle
would necessarily ensue at any point on the
| railroads touched.
The u. S. s. Benton, Cincinnati Pittsburs,
and three mortar boats under Flag Officer
Foote, opened fire on the Confederate floating
| battery New Orleans, under Lieut.. 8. W.
! Averett, G. S. Navy, at Island No. 10, causing
| her to cut her moorings and drift down the
| river.
| The British schooner British Empire, Of
Nassau, N. p, was captured by boat expedi.
| ton from the U. S. s. Isaac Smith in Matanzas
| Inlet, Fla.
The British sloop Coquette of Nassau, N. p,
was captured BY the U. 9. s. susquehsnna Oh
Charleston, s. C.
Demonstration in eight armed boats under
Comdr. H. s. Stellwagon, from the q. S. 8.
| MeIcedita and Sycamore, against Appslachi.
cola, Fla, capturing two pilot boats, three
schooners, aud sloop. Not being able to get
three of the above vessels out, they were
| burned.
April 3-4.-Maj George c. Strong, A.A.G..
under direction of Gen. Butler. proceeded to
Biloxi. Miss, with the 9th Conn. and section Of
Evcretts battery, on board the U.SS Henry
| Lewis and demanded and received from the
Mayor of Biloxi an apology for firing into the
| flag Of truce on the 1st. He then proceeded
with the naval force to Pass Christian, landed
| his troops and drove out the rebels, capturing
and destroying their camp. losing two men
| wounded.
| TIE naval force consisting of the U. g.
| steamers New London J. Z. Jackson and Henry
| Lewis were attacked on the morning of the
4th at Pass Christian by the Confederate
| steamers Oregon, Pamlico and Carondelet, and
| after an engagement lasting one hour and 45
minutes the Confederate vessels Withdrew.
! April 4.-The First Corps (McDowells) de.
tached from the Army of the Potomac and
merged into the Department of the Rappahan-
! mock.
| The Fifth Corps (Banks's) detached from tho
Army of the Potomac and merged into the
| Department of the Shenandoah.
| The Department of the Shenandoah consti.
| tuted to embrace all that portion of Virginia
| lying between the Mountain Departments and
| the Blue Ridge, and Maj Gen. N. T. Banks
| was assigned to the command.
| The Department of the Rappahannock Gre
ated, embracing that portion of Virginia east
of the Blue Ridge and west of the Potomac
and the Fredericksburg & Richmond Railroad,
including the District of Columbia and the
country between the Potomac and the Patux-
ent, and Maj Gen. Irwin Mcdowell assigned
to the command. sai7
| Tho Army of the Potomac advanced from
the vicinity of Fort Monroe, Va
The advance of the Second Brigade, Porter's
Division, Third Corps, occupied after slight
resistance the Confederate works at Howard's
Mill, near Cockletown, Va. The 14th N. Y.
first entered the works.
A detachment Of the Sd Ohio Cav. engaged
In skirmish near Lawrenceburg. Tenn.
Detachments Of the 5th Ohio Cav. and 18th,
70th and I'D Ohio Inf. were engaged in skir-
mish with Col. CIant0n's regiment, 1st Ala,
and lost eight men wounded and IL captured
| or missing. They took 10 prisoners, and Gen.
Sherman says cleft two wounded and many
| killed on the fieldn
The U. s. s. Carondelet, Comdr. II. Wake
during severe thunder storm, ran past the
batteries at Island No. 10, Tenn, without sus.
tanning any injuries.
The Confederate steamboat P. G. Wallis
loaded with turpentine, resin, etc, was cap
| tured by the U. S. steamers New London and
J. p. Jackson near Pass Christian, Miss.
April 5.--The skirmishers OF Porter's Diyis-
ion, Third Corps, and the artillery engaged in
a skirmish near the junction OF the Warwick
and yorktown roads, Va Union loss. four
killed and 81 wounded.
Smiths Division, Fourth Corps, while ad-
vancing on Yorktown, Va. was exposed to q
sharp artillery fire for time from the Con-
| federate works near Lees Mill. va.
Edsto Island, 8. c., was occupied by the Sd
N. II. Col. Fellows reported that he had entire
possession of the island and did not apprehend
! any danger.