Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-07-05
WARTIME PICTURE FAIRFAX HOUSE, "A. WHICH
CONFEDERATE FORCES WERE INTRENCHED FIFTY AGO

rather Enthusiastically planning the exten
sion of 81 degrees 30 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
hitting 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 see
tons 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 time turned aside the
war tide from her own soil, but the
respite was to prove brief
The prediction that poor old Nir-
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 het
territory, and the remnant was to be
come a military camp during four
fearful years Armies, the greatest the
world had ever known. would struggle
over her, dpSolating her towns and
fields, turning her into Il 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 to 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 II. In Missouri General
Lyon rested at BoOnville. On the
18th a 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 allie
glance. General Mcclellan. who up to
4 -, 6ipoofinn
tons 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 to Cumberland.
where he remained in rather perilouS
situation for several weeks.
After General Patterson crossed the
river at Williamsport, General Scott,
in a fever of anxiety for the safety of
the capital wrote and telegraphed
that the Pennsylvania commander
send a part Of his troops TO Washing
ton. Patterson complied, but, fearing
be had not a large enough army to
cope with Johnston, withdrew again
into Maryland.
Emboldened by the fact that the
Union troops did net occupy Harpers
Ferry after the Confoderates evacuat-
ed, a small force Of insurgents wreak-
ed further destruction there on June
20. At Martinsburg the Confederates
destroyed forty-six locomotives and
more than 300 coal cars and gondOlas
belonging to the Baltimore and Ohio.
They also struck Piedmont and de