Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-21

rather Realistically planning the exten,
sion of SO degrees 80 minutes to the
Pacific and making this the dividing
line between the two sections. These
tenders of impossible peace agree
ments were hardly received seriously
by any one, and northern papers even
censured the administration for per-
uniting them to be made at all.
The mind of the nation was now
attuned to war. The fife and drum
Were heard in all corners of the land.
In every city and hamlet in both sec
lions troops were being recruited.
drilled and hurried to the front. From
Virginia in the east to Missouri in the
west the border had become a battle
line. By her stand for neutrality
Kentucky for a time turned aside the
war dde from her own soil, but the
respite was to prove brief.
The prediction that poor old Vir-
ginia would have to bear the brunt OF
the battle" was already proving true.
She had gone into the struggle re-
luctantly, as though dimly foreseeing
the cost. BY it she was TO be torn
asunder, losing nearly one-half OF her
anu lnS Eeflildnl WIS TO De-
come a military camp during four
fearful years. Armies, the greatest the
world had ever known, would struggle
over her, desolating her towns and
fields, turning her into a slaughter
house, a hospital and a graveyard
She that had been the mother OF
presidents" that had taken so historic
a part in the first years of the republic
was to be historic still, but in how
mournful a sense! She had chosen her
bed. but her couch was 10 be one of
thorns, and the thorns were the points
of bayonets.
Some Important Movements.
In the week ending June "a there
were no battles worthy of the name,
but several important movements. This
was a breathing space after the fight
ing of June Il. In Missouri General
Lyon rested at Boonville. On the
18th q skirmish occurred at Cole. near
by. and small Union force was sur
prised and driven out Governor
Jackson reappeared at St Louis with
500 men. purloined some property and
got away There were attempts TO
pursue him. but without result. Three
of the state officers returned To Jeffer-
son City and took the oath of ale
glance. General Mcclellan. who up TO
this time had been directing opera
lions from Cincinnati. now went in
person TO Grafton and started the
movement against the Confederates in
the vicinity of Beverly. Colonel Lew
Wallace. after winning the battle of
Romney. withdrew 10 Cumberland.
where he remained in rather perilous
situation for several weeks
After General Patterson crossed the
rive4 at WiIliamsport. General Scott,
Sc a fever of anxiety for the safety Of
the capital. wrote and telegraphed
that the Pennsylvania commando
send a part of his troops 20 Washing
ton. Patterson compiled. but. fearing
he had not large enough army TO
cone with Johnston. withdrew again
into Maryland.
Emooldened by the fact that the
Union troops did not occupy Harpers
Ferry after the Confederates- evacuat-
ed. q small force Of insurgents wreak-
ed further destruction there on June
90 At Martinsburg the Confederates
destroyed forty-six locomotives and
more than 500 eual cars and gondolas
belonging to the Baltimore and Ohio.
They also struck Piedmont and de-