Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-01-05

companies OIL Eaflan cavalry, lett
Camp Hamilton. Virginia, under COM
mand of Brigadier General Weber, ac-
companied by Majors Vegesack and
CARING of General Woods staff. Leav-
ing the infantry two miles beyond Lit
tie Bethel. the cavalry proceeded to-
ward Big Bethel, met an inferior force
of Confederate cavalry acting as pick
cts, and drove them in upon the town.
Upon arriving at Big Bethel the Fed
eral cavalry discovered the place had
been vacated by the Confederates.
A detachment of Federal troops 300
in number, under Colonel Glover. en-
eountered body of Confederates
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 rlver from Richmond on the
G. S. S. S. Northampton to- a point
nine miles above Fortress Monroe,
where they were transferred to the
steamer George Washington, U. S. N.
Most of the Union prisoners had been
captured at the battle of Bull Run.
January 4, 1862.
HuntersyiIle, depot of Confederate
supplies between Huttonsville and
Warm Springs, Virginia, was attacked
by force of Union troops consisting
of detachments from the 9Th Ohio, the
End Virginia, and Hadsin's cavalry,
740 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 skir-
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 We're with
stood, but a third, accompanied by a
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 a skirmish
near Port Royal, South Carolina.
Seven ctnfederates 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 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 body to be trained and
made ready for garrison duty.
Maj. Gen. George B. Crittenden, COM
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 reaffirm
that "the separation of the Confeder-
ate states from the United States is,
and ought to be, final and irrevoca.
ble."
The second execution in the Nation
al Army of the Republic took place
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