Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-12

and a force of Confederates, resulting
in advantage to the Union force.
June IA, 1862.
Captain Craven of the United States
steam sloop Brooklyn, sent marine
guard and party OF seamen, number
ing in all about one hundred men, I'M
der command of Lieutenant Lowry, to
Bayou Sara, La, for the purpose OF
destroying the telegraph apparatus and
cutting the wires. Lieutenant Lowry
returned to the ship after two hours,
having accomplished his work.
Gen. Jas. II. Van Allen, military gov
ernor of Yorktown, Va, issued an or
der directing that all negroes in his
department, "contraband or otherwise,
should be under the immediate charge
and control of the provost-marshal,
and be allowed full liberty" 1t was
understood as device to give the
slaves temporary freedom.
Captain Atkinson, Company G of
the Fifteenth Indiana, with twenty
men, captured six thousand, two hun
dred pounds of powder at Sycamore
Mills, thirty miles below Nashville,
Tenn, and five miles north of the
Cumberland river The company also
stopped at Fort zollicoffer, and
brought off gun.
June is, 1862.
The Confederate General J. E. B.
Stuart, with cavalry force, left tie
Confederate lines near Richmond, Va,
on the 18th and rode through the lines
of the right wing of the Union arThy
in front of Richmond to Garlick's
Landing, Pamunkey river where he
burned two.schooners; thence to Turn
stalls Station, where he fired into,
but failed to capture, railroad train;
thence rode around the left wing OF
the Union army and into Richmond,
arriving on this date
Lieutenant Commander Howell, in
the Union gunboat Tahoma, accom-
panied by Lieutenant Commander Eng
lish, in the Somerset, crossed the bar
at Saint Marks river, in Florida, and
drove a company of Confederate ar
tillery, with four or five field pieces.
from a fort near the lighthouse on
that river, afterwards landing and
burning the fort, with the barracks.
June is, 1862.
The Richmond Despatch of this date
printed the following: "Desertion has
become far too frequent in the Con-
federate army. And yet the habit is
not peculiar to Confederate soldiers
There must be assertions from all
military service where there is no
punishment for desertion. We mean
no punishment adequate to the Of
fence-none which a coward or vaga-
bond had not rather encounter than
endure the service or the perils of a
battle. Death is the proper punish
ment, and it is the punishment pre-
scribed in our laws-the punishment
melted to deserters by governments
generally We anticipate that our own
government will be forced to resort
to it. With creditable for
bearance and humanity, the policy OF
appealing to the pride OF soldier by
advertisement, by disgraces, has been
pursued by our commanders; but
there is little pride and no honor in
a deserter, and the fear of disgrace
will not deter him from absconding.
An example or two would have a fine
effect"
The battle of Secessionville, James
Island, S. c., was fought, resulting in
the singing defeat of the National
forces.
At Memphis, Tenn, large body Of
Confederate officers and soldiers, to-
gether with citizens of the city, took
the oath of allegiance to the United
States of America.
The Confederates in front of the
National picl1ets at Fair Oaks at
tempted to flank a portion of the
Union force during q violent thunder
storm, but were repulsed with some
loss. Lieutenant Palmer, aide to Gen
eral Sickles, was killed while giving
orders to the commander of the regi-
ment attacked
A squad of Union soldiers, hunting
for deserters near Culpepper, Va,
found Confederate mail carrier hid
ing in the woods in whose pouch was
a large number of letters to important
Confederates, containing information
of value to the Union forces.
Copyright, 1872 by W G. Chapman.)