Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-04
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CIVIL WAR
FIFTY YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK

VDSeu UlSulhSeu lTOm INC HuTDOT "
Plymouth, England, and slipped into
Beaufort through the same careful
guard.
The ship Emily st. Pierre, ostensibly
bound for st. Johns, N. B., but which
showed no colors, was captured by
the blockading squadron off Charles
ton, S. C.
Colonel Dwight, with a portion oil
the First regiment of the Excelsior
brigade made reconnaissance be,
tween Dumfriers and Fredericksburg
Va One small company Of Confeder.
ate pickets were driven in, but Sec
ond force that was encountered was
not molested. Colonel Dwight's men
found q deserted camp and helped
themselves.
Acquia Creek was evacuated by the
Confederates during the night. Pre-
vious to leaving the Confederates
burned the wharves and town.
General Pope, commanding the
Union position at New Madrid, trap
ped a Confederate gunboat In front
Of masked battery and sunk it. He
had previously permitted four of them
to pass the first battery, which left
them between two.
March 10, 1862.
General Lowell, c. S. A., issued the
following order at New Orleans:
Hereafter no exemptions from mill
tary service duty will be allowed per-
manently, except in case of minors or
persons physically unable to do serv-
ice. Applications for the release of
those at work for the government
must be made to this department in
the form of certificates from the own
ers or foremen of the shops, when an
order will be issued to the command
ing officer of the camp to which the
applicant belongs to grant fur
Tough Of a certain number of days,
which can only be renewed by a sub.
sequent certificate and order from
these headquarters"
Some bridge builders captured py
the Confederate Morgan in a cavalry
rail- on the Louisville & Nashville rail-
road, having been released, returned
to Louisville, Ky.
, The Ninety-seventh regiment of New
York volunteers. under command Of
Col. Charles Wheelock, passed
through New York city for the front.
The Ninety-seventh was practically a
private regiment, having been organ
lied by Colonel Wheelock at consid-
cradle personal expenses. He paid more
than $4,000 out of his own pocket, much
Of which went to the families of the
men enlisted for their support while
the heads OF the families were gone.
March 20, 1862.
Governor Curtin of Pennsylvania is
sued a general order complimenting
the Fifty-first Pennsylvania for gal
1antry at the action at Newbern, n.
C., and at Roanoke. The regiment,
which did not acquire great distinc-
ton in the engagement at Bull Run
early in the war, was held to have re- |
deemed its reputation, and the names
OF the two latest battles were ordered |
on the regimental battle
flag, where no mention was made of
Bull Run.
Loyal citizens Of Jacksonville, Fla,
met and protested against the action
Of the convention that had declared
Florida in secession from the United
States Of America, asserting that no
state had a right to secede, and de.
claring they were deprived by the con-
vention Of their rights as citizens of
the United States.
The meeting was encouraged by q
proclamation issued the same day by
Federal General Sherman, in which
the general stated that the troops Of
the United States had come to pro-
tect loyal citizens and their property,
and enable them to resuscitate their
government, and promised that all 10y
al persons returning to their homes
and taking up their usual course Of
life would be protected In their con-
stitutional rights. The sole desire
and intention OF the government was
10 maintain the integrity OF the Con-
Stitution and laws, and reclaim the
states revolving from the national el-
lance to their former prosperous con.
Hilton.
March Fl, 1852.
Petty warfare continued IN Mis-
souri,. An expedition Of Union SOL
diers under Captain Stevens, on the
way to Indian Creek, near Keitsville,
Mo-, was informed that band Of Con-
federates had planned to meet at a
certain house that night. Captain Ste
Vens, surprising the place early in the
captured nineteen prisoners
and 1000 pounds Of bacon that was In
.ended for the Confederate army.
Among the prisoners were three OF the
-ank Of captain.
Two new military departments wero +,
One Of them comprised ,
III the country that might be occu- :
,ied by General Butler, with head :
quarters wherever they happened TO
IL. and the other comprised Georgia.