Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-11-15

were restrained from violent resist
ance only by the attitude of the ma
rines.
A detachment of General Nelson's
forces engaged the Confederates un-
der Col John S. Williams near Pike
town, Pike county, Kentucky. The
result of the action was indecisive.
The loss was: Federals, killed 20
wounded; Confederates, 10 killed. 10
wounded and 40 missing
Savannah, Georgia, was in great ex-
citement all day. Fugitives from
Fort Walker, which was battered to
pieces the day before by the ships of
( the Port Royal expedition, filled the
streets, bringing with them bad news
and worse rumors.
The situation in eastern Tennessee
continued turbulent. On the 8th
| Union sympathizers burned five more
railroad bridges to prevent the trans
portation of Confederate troops.
The gunboat Rescue sailed up the
| Rappahanock as far as Unbanna and
burned Confederate schooner.
November 9, 1861.
General Nelson renewed the attack
on the Confederate forces at Pike
| town early in the morning, bringing
up more troops to the engagement
than he employed on the previous
day. At ten o'clock the Confederates
| surrendered Internationally. Their
! loss was 400 killed and wounded and
! 1000 prisoners.
Union sympathiZers in eastern
| Tennessee burned more bridges One
with a span of 200 feet on the East
ern Tennessee railroad was destroyed;
| four on the line north of Nashville
/ were obliterated and a very heavy
wooden bridge at Charlestown, Brad
ley county, rs miles southwest of
| Knoxville, was completely demolished.
The Confederate army in Virginia
was reorganized. The state of Vir-
! ginia was erected into a department
comprising the Army of the Potomac.
the Army of the Valley, and the
Army of the Acquia. commanded re-
| spectively by Generals Beauregard,
Thomas Jackson and Holmes, with
General Johnston in highest com
mand.
The Department of New Mexico
was re-established under Colonel
| Candy. u. S. A. Missouri was or
gained into a military department,
and the Department of the Ohio was
extended to include Kentucky and
| Tennessee.
Charles Francis Adams, United
| States minister to England, was
toasted by the chief magistrate Of
London at the lord majors banquet.
! News of the arrest of the Trent had
not yet reached England.
November 10, 1861.
General Benhams brigade and a
force under General Cox co-operated
| in a movement that resulted in the
! dislodgement of General Floyd from
Cotton Hill, where he had made him
! self very obnoxious to General Rose
Grams line of communication. General
! Benham crossed the Kanawha at the
mouth of Loup creek and marched to
gain Floyd's rear while Cox attacked
him in front. Floyd, observing his
! predicament, withdrew without offer
! ing much resistance, and fell back
toward Raleigh.
Major General Halleck, lately ar
rived from California, was appointed
to command the military department
of the west in place Of General Ere
mont, who was lately temporarily
superseded by Gen David Hunter
Confederate officials, resenting the
trial for piracy of Southerners
captured in privateersmen, retail
lated by obliging Federal pris
oners. in Richmond to select a
hostage for the safety of one Smith,
a privateersman lately convicted in
Philadelphia of piracy. Choice was
made by drawing lots, and fell upon
Colonel Corcoran of the Sixty-ninth
| New York Thirteen more prison
ers we're set apart as hostages for the
crew of the captured Privateer Sa
vannah.
One hundred and fifty men of the
Ninth Virginia volunteers in the
Union army were betrayed by the
treacherous hospitality of the citi
zens OF Guyandotte, Va, and either
killed or captured by Confederate
! force.
November II, 1861.
General Polk narrowly escaped
death at Columbus, Ky. He was
standing near a Dahlgren gun when
it exploded Part of his clothing was
torn and blown away from him by
the conclusion. Two lieutenants and
six priyates lost their lives in the
explosion
One hundred and ten Kansas Jay
hawkers, under Colonel Anthony, at
tackled a Confederate camp on the
Little Blue, near Kansas, Mo-, de-
feated the Confederates and seized a
number of horses. The Jayhawkers
lost eight killed and eight wounded.
A reconnaissance by Colonel Weber
in the direction of New Market
! Bridge, Va, near Fortress Monroe,
| brought on a general skirmish. The