The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-01-04

CARING of General Woods stan. 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-
countered a body Of Confederates
$50 strong in camp nine miles from
Hunnewell, Mo. The National troops
attacked and drove the Confederates
from their camp after a sharp fight.
Eight Confederates fell into Union
hands; among them John Kincade,
who had helped to burn Salt river
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
G. S. S. S. Northampton to a point
nine miles above Fortress Monroe,
where they we're transferred to the
steamer George Washington, U. s. N.
Most of the Union prisoners had been
captured at the battle of Bull Run.
January q, 1852
Huntersville, a depot of Confederate
supplies between H%uttonsville and
Warm Springs, Virginia, was attacked
by a force of Union troops consisting
Of d~etachments from the 5th Ohio, the
End Virginia, and Hadsin's cavalry,
740 in strength. The Confederates
had a 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 ]. Lyons, who was CIV
en- authority to conduct their affairs
for the benefit Of the Confederate
States.
General Jackson, with a force Of
Co%nfederates, attacked five hundred
national troops, detached from several
regiments, at Bath, Virginia. Two at
tacks by the C~onfederates were 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
a Confederate force in a skirmish
near Port Royal, South Carolina.
Seven Confederates were captured
and marched to Beaufort. They made
a 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 garrison duty.
Maj. Gen. George B. Crittenden, COM
handing 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, g~overnor'of Virginia,
sent a 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 %irrevocar
BILE"
The second execution in the Nation
al Army of the Republic took place
at Washington, D. G. Michael Lana.
han was hanged for the murder Of
Sergeant Bremen, both of Company
A, Second regiment, U. S. A.
Capt. Gwin, G. S. A., was arrested
by Colonel Howell of the Eighty-fifth
Pennsylvania, while on a visit to his
old home in Maryland, twenty miles
below Washington.
Copyright, 1911, by w. q. Chapman.)