Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-02-28

Mount Vernon, Commander o. S. Glis-
son.
The day was observed throughout
the South, in accordance with a proc
lamation issued by President Davis.
as a day of fasting, humiliation and
prayer. 1t was chosen as a fitting &C.
casion to return thanks to Providence
for the preservation of the provisional
government.
Captain Nolen, with a company of
the Seventh Illinois cavalry, while
making reconnaissance near Charles
town. Missouri, encountered band OF
Confederates under jeff Thompson.
The Union cavalry charged and cap
tured four guns.
Charlestown, Virginia, situated on
the line of the Winchester and Poto-
mac railroad, eight miles southwest of
Harper's Ferry, was occupied by the
national troops.
March I, 1852.
The second battalion of Ohio cav
airy, engaged. on patrol duty at indie
pendence, KY, was engaged by a por
ton of Colonel Parker's Confederate
force during heavy fog. The firing
was heavy, but desultory, owing to
the fog, which obscured both comba-
tants.
John Milton Bolts, Valentine Heck
Ter, Franklin Stearns and a number
Of other men were arrested at Rich
mond charged with treason to the
Confederacy. Evidence had been
gathered that they had expressed
themselves against the Confederacy
and in favor of the United States.
A st. Louis daily paper printed as
news item that the Confederates
had established powder mills in Vir
ginia, South Carolina, Georgia and
Alabama. The story stated that the
Confederates had accumulated much
but that it was inferior in strength,
because of the impossibility of get
ting the proper ingredients. In
stances of it's weakness were cited;
among them the circumstance that
after the engagement at Fort Donel-
son many of the wounded Union sol
diers were able to pick the buckshot
out Of their skin like slivers.
Lieut. Orlando Houston of Captain
Carlin's Second Ohio battery was
captured ten miles west Of General
Curtis camp in Missouri by a band
of Texas Rangers. Lieutenant Hous-
ton was on foraging expedition with
a small detachment,
General Curtis, U. S. A, at Camp
Halleck, in Arkansas, advised those
in arms against the United States to
return to their allegiance, assuring
them safety and the fullest protec.
ton.
March 2, 1862.
The United States gunboat Tyler.
Lieutenant Commander Gwin, and
Lexington, Lieutenant Commander
Shirk, had rough time with Con-
federate battery which they found at
Pittsburg, Tenn, a few miles from
Savannah, Tenn, and near the Mis-
sissippi line. Rumors had come down
the Tennessee river that the Confed
crates were locating battery above,
and the two gunboats set out from
Fort Henry to reconnoiter.
Cropping carefully along between
the wooded banks, they had no adj
venture until they had passed Savan-
nah and were approaching Pittsburg
Landing, a little hamlet at the base
of range of hills. Here they were
opened on by a battery of four guns,
one of them a 20-pound rife.
The gunboats returned the fire,
steaming close to the fort, and over
whelming the Confederate gunners
with weight of metal. During the
firing two regiments Of infantry de-
veloped, and were taken care of by
grape and canister from the gun.
boats.
The confederate guns ceasing to
fire, party was sent ashore which
fell in with the Confederate infantry
and was severely handled Taking
refuge in a log house, they narrowly
escaped being cut off and captured.
They were relieved from the danger
by the fire from the gunboats, which
cleaned out the woods for them.
AS soon as the landing party came
aboard the gunboats withdrew, hay
ing learned all they needed TO know
about the Confederate force.
March 8, 1862.
Columbus, KY, for 3 long time one
of the strongholds of the Confeder.
ates on their outer lines of defense,
was occupied by the Union forces
The loss Of Forts Henry and Donel
son had made the position untenable
The Confederates had been busily
evacuating for several days and had
finished the day before. The town
was completely deserted, and the
buildings stripped of everything of
value or use.
The Confederate Generals Tilghman
and Buckner, taken prisoners with
their forces in the capture of Fort
Donelson, were brought to Boston for
detention in Fort Warren. Although
their presence or the train was not
advertised they We're received nv a