Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-06-14
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CIVIL WAR
FIFTY YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
June no. 186o.

was OFFICIALLY promulgated. 1t is TO
remain in full force for a period of
ten years. Instructions for the ships
of the United States and British navies
and regulations for the mixed courts
OF justice accompanied the publica.
ton.
The schooner Julia was captured at
Barataria, La, by Masters Mate John
H. Gregory. with a crew of twelve
men from the United States gunboat
Kittatinny
A fight took place on James Island,
S. c., between a body of Union troops
and large force of Confederates. II
was hotly contested for more than
two hours, and ended in the discorn-
future of the Confederates, who were
outnumbered
The Union army under General Ere
mont reached Port Republic. Va. the
scene of the stand made by General
Jackson the day before.
The Confederates In front Of the
Union lines at Savage's Station,
Chickahominy Swamp, Va, kept up q
bombardment, without effect, their
shells falling short of the mark.
June II, 1862.
A severe skirmish took place be-
tween a portion of the Thirteenth In.
diana light artillery and mounted
squad OF Captain Blood's provost
guard, under Captain Nicklin, and a
large body of Confederate irregulars
who were hidden in thick clump OF
! bushes. The Confederates were
eventually dislodged, but not until the
National troops had suffered some
loss in killed and wounded. Twenty.
five of the irregulars We're captured.
A flag of truce was received at
Batesville, Ark, the headquarters of
General Curtis of the Union army,
bearing a letter from General Hind.
man of the Confederate army threat
ening to hang every Federal officer
and soldier who should fall into his
hands in case General Curtis should
hang certain persons in his hands as
outlaws. Generar Curtis replied Inn
mediately, disclaiming any intention
of hanging.
Specie payment was resumed by the
New Orleans Bank of America.
A Confederate battery of four guns
was captured at James Island. s. c.,
by two regiments of Union troops.
The schooner Princeton was cap
tured by the United States steamer
Susquehanna.
June IL, 1862.
A fight took place at Waddell's farm
near Village Creek, Ark, between a
Body of National troops under the com.
mand of Col. Albert E. Bracket OF the
Ninth Illinois cavalry and party OF
Confederates known as Rockers COM
pany, in which the latter were de-
feated with a loss of twenty-eight
killed, wounded and prisoners. Colonel
Brackets loss was one killed and
eleven prisoners.
A detachment of the Richmond
Blues had skirmish near the Chicka-
hominy on the right wing of the Con-
federate army with a body of Union
infantry. The fire of the Blues killed
six OF the enemy and wounded sew
eral, when they retreated
General Fremont left Harrisonburgh.
Va. The citizens expressed their de-
light by an illumination of every win
dow in town.
A small expedition of United States
forces under Captain Hynes, topo-
graphical engineers, went up the
Nansemond river without resistance.
Mount Jackson, Va, was occupied
by the Federal army under General
Fremont.
An attack on a Confederate battery
on James Island, S. c., by three regi-
ments of Union troops, was repulsed.
June 10, 1862.
Col. James r. Slack, Federal, COM
handing at Memphis, Tenn, issued
the following order: Thereafter the
dealing in and passing of currency
known as Confederate scrip or Con
federate notes is positively prohibit
ed, and the use thereof as a circulat-
ing medium regarded as an insult to
the government Of the United States
and an imposition upon the ignorant
and deluded.
"All persons offending against the
provisions Of this order will be prompt
ly arrested and severely punished by
the military authorities"
The Bank of Louisiana. at New Or
leans, being ordered by the provost
Judge to pay citizen in current funds
his deposit formerly received in Con-
federate notes, the bank appealed to
General Butler, who sustained the de-
cision of the judge.
Congress passed a joint resolution
Of thanks to Lieutenant Morris and
the other officers and men of the
frigate Cumberland, recently destroyed
by the Confederate iron-clad Virginia.
The pickets of General McClelian's
army near Richmond were driven in
from Old Church, and large bodies of
Confederates were discovered moving