The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-01-05

ESQ strong In camp nine miles from
Hunnewell, Mo- The National troops
attacked and drove the Confederates
from their camp after sharp fight.
Eight Confederates fell into Union
hands; among them John Kincade,
who had helped to burn Salt river
bridge and tank as defensive meas
ure against the Union advance.
Two hundred and forty Federal
troops who had been held prisoners of
war at Richmond, and who had been
exchanged for an equal number OF
Confederate prisoners, arrived at
Fortress Monroe. They were brought
down the river from Richmond on the
c. s. s. S. Northampton to point
where they were transferred to the
steamer George Washington, U. s. N.
Most of the Union prisoners had beer
captured at the battle of Bull Run.
January 4, 1852.
Huntersville, a depot of Confederate
supplies between Huttonsville and
Warm Springs, Virginia, was attacked
by force of Union troops consisting
of detachments from the 5th Ohio, the
End Virginia, and Hadsin's cavalry,
TAO in strength. The Confederates
had slightly inferior force of in
fantry and cavalry The Union force
fell upon the Confederate cavalry be-
fore it could concentrate, and drove it
through the town, after severe Skin
mishes. Stores valued at $4,000 fell
into the possession of the Union sol
diers and were destroyed.
All the banks situated in that part
of Kentucky where sympathy for the
Confederate cause prevailed were con-
solidated and placed under the direc-
ton of Henry J. Lyons, who was Civ
en- authority to conduct their affairs
for the benefit of the Confederate
States.
General Jackson, with a force Of
Confederates, attacked five hundred
national troops, detached from several
regiments, at Bath, Virginia. Two at
tacks by the Confederates were with
stood, but third, accompanied by
flank movement, dislodged the Fed
erals, who fell back on Hancock, Vir-
ginia
January 5, 1862.
A party of National troops engaged
Confederate force in skirmish
near Port Royal, South Carolina.
Seven Confederates were captured
and marched to Beaufort. They made
determined attempt to escape while
under guard by Selling the weapons
of their captors. The attempt was
frustrated with difficulty.
General Stone was completely exon
Grated, before a Congressional COM
mittee, of all blame for the Balls
Bluff disaster.
January 6, 1862.
The schooner William Northrop,
formerly a pilot boat of Charlestown.
South Carolina, was brought into New
York Under charge of Prize-Master
Rhoades, of the U. s. s. S. Fernan-
dina. She was captured by the Fer
nandina when attempting to run the
blockade into Wilmington. She was
laden with coffee and quinine and 9TH
er medicine, from Nassau and Havana.
The Richmond Despatch reported
satisfactory progress in the erection
of defensive works about the city
and the organization of the inhabit-
ants into. a body to, be trained and
made ready for gar ison duty.
Mot Cap GaOr0a a. rrittondon rnu,-
manding the Confederate forces in
southeastern Kentucky, issued an or
der dated at Mill Spring urging all
citizens of Kentucky who had not yet
taken up arms to join the Confederate
forces Immediately, objurgating them
by the obligations of interest, honor
and duty to assist in repelling the
invaders. He affirmed that the object
of the war on the part of the North
was the extinction of slavery and the
subjugation of the South"
John Letcher, governor of Virginia,
sent message to the Virginia house
of delegates urging them to reafirm
that "the separation of the Confeder-
ate states from the United States is,
and ought to be, final and frrevoca-
BILE"
The second execution in the Nation
al Army of the Republic took place
at Washington, d. c. Michael Lana.
han was hanged for the murder OF
Sergeant Bremen, both of Company
A, Second regiment, U. s. A.
Capt. Gwin, C. S. A., was arrested
by Colonel Howell of the Eighty-fifth
Pennsylvania, while on visit to his
old home in Maryland. twenty miles
below Washington.
downright. 1911, by w. G. Chapmal)