The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-02-03
eral forces. The issue OF the Tight
opened the road to Prestonburg.


thousand strong. left Cairo In boats
and sailed down the Mississippi to q
point eight miles below Cairo, where
they were landed on the Kentucky
shore. The expedition carried i've
days cooked rations. ninety wagons
and four hundred mules, together with
ambulances, tents, etc. The gunboats
Essex and st. Louis accompanied
them.
The call of the state Of Tennessee
for militia to serve In the Confederate
armies resulted In serious trouble in
some of the western counties, where
Northern sympathies ran high. 1t was
necessary to send troops into McNairy
county to enforce the call. Some OF
the local authorities were arrested.
A party of Kansas Indians, under
their chief, Y-O-To-Wah, visited Leav-
enworth for the purpose of ascertain
ing the terms of enlistment in the
United States army. The chief ex-
pressed a desire to assist in maintain
ing the union
Senators Trusten Polk and Waldo p.
Johnson, from Missouri, were expelled
from the United States Senate on re-
port of the judiciary committee.
January II, 1862.
The shooting of pickets In the VIZ
cinity of Cairo continuing undated,
General Grant issued orders that all
inhabitants of the country for a dis
lance of six miles in front OF the
Union position should be brought be-
hind the breastworks and guarded,
and that anyone appearing within the
six-mile zone should be liable to To
shot. The order was based on BIZ
lief that the persons guilty of tho
practice OF shooting pickets were not
members of the Confederate army, but
citizens of the neighborhood. Women
and children were not exempted from
the order, excepting that they were
permitted to find protection outside
the six-mile limit other than the Fed
eral camp, If they chose. Four pick
cts had been shot the night before the
order was issued.
Confederate troops burned two
bridges on the Louisville and Nash
Vile railroad, between MuLfordville
and Bowling Green.
Three Confederate gunboass from
Columbus, KY, made a vigorous at
tack on the Federal gunboats Essex
and st. John off Fort Jefferson, in the
Mississippi river. The Confederate
vessels finally withdrew to the pro-
lection of their batteries.
The Florida legislature elected A. E.
Maxwell and /. M. Baker to the Con-
federate senate.
Sixty Confederate soldiers of Col
onel Alexander's regiment were cap
tured near Sedalia, Mo. Colonel Alex
ander was prisoner in st. Louis at
the time.
Colonel Garfield occupied Preston
burg, KY, the Confederate troops I'M
der Humphrey Marshall having with
drawn.
January IL, 1862.
A party of Confederates belonging
to the command of Colonel Ham,
mond devastated the country near
Munfordville, KY, in the probable
line Of the Federal advanced They
burned the depot and blacksmith shop
at Horse Cave, the depot, stables, and
hotel at Cave City, destroyed all the
hay, oats and fodder along the road,
and drove OF or killed all cattle, hors-
es and mules. They stated their in
tentiop to burn all the houses along
the road that might be of use to the
met with no opposition, the inhaoi-
tants of the country having taken ref
uge in Munfordville.
A nephew of Gen. Polk of the Con-
federate army was- arrested near
Blandville, by National reconnoiter1
ing party. Dispatches that were bef
lieved to be intended for Confedefs4b
spies in Columbus. KY, were found 4
on him.
The United States sloop OF warl|
Pensacola ran the Confederate. batter.
les at Shipping and Cockpit points, on {
the Potomac, and got to sea without
receiving a single shot.
A accommodating party under COM
mand Of Lieut.. w. 7. Truxton, u. s.
NJ, returned to st. Helena sound.
8. c., from an expedition to Bailey'sI
island, which they found deserted, all
though stocked with sheep and cat@
tie. They crossed the island to BaiHl
ey's landing, on the North Edisto rivY
er, but found no one about the plantafl
lions.
The advance of Gen. Burnside'a
Union expedition to the coast of NORTH
Carolina sailed from Fortress Mon.
roe, Va.