Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-09-27
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CIVIL WAR
FIFTY YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
September %, 1862.

| September %, 1862.
Three hundred Sioux Indians, under
Little Grow, were defeated In an at
tack on Colonel Sibley's command at
Yellow Medicine, Mimi. The battle
lasted two hours, with heavy loss to
J the savages.
The city hall at New Orleans was
crowded with citizens anxious to take
| the oath of allegiance to the United
| States, the Esd being the last day per-
| mitted by the order of General Butler.
| The schooner Nellie was captured
by the United States steamer Ala
| bama.
! Sutton, Va, and neighborhood was
| the scene of brisk fighting throughout
the day In the merning an attacking
| force of Confederates were defeated
and driven ten miles. Reinforced, it
made a second attack on the National
| force and sent them to flight, driving
! them eventually from their original
! post at Sutton.
! Four hundred English rifles, marked
London, 1862" and an English can
! non were seized by Colonel Switzer,
/ who crossed from Maryland into Vir-
| ginia at Reynolds Ford with his
Union regiment and battery of ar
tillery. The Confederate pickets
guarding the military stores retired
without firing a shot, being heavily
outnumbered.
| Major General Wright, in a special
order issued at Cincinnati, O., relin-
quished the severity. Of his martial
control over the district lately threat
ened with invasion by the advance of
Gen. e. Kirby Smith with Confeder-
ate force, permitting the resumption
Of business without restriction, waiv-
] ing the demand for passes to citizens,
and suspending the daily drills.
! September "a, 1862.
President Lincoln issued a procla-
nation ordering that any person who
discouraged enlistment, or resisted
drafts, or was guilty of any disloyal
practice affording aid or comfort to
! those in rebellion against the United
States, should be subject to arrest
| and trial by court martial; and sus-
! pending the right of habeas corpus in
| such cases.
Governor Curtin of Pennsylvania
! dismissed the militia that had orga-
nized for the defence of the state dur
ing Lees advance into Maryland.
The plant of the American Volun-
! in 81
Pa, was destroyed by mob because
of an editorial that reflected on Presi-
dent Lincoln and the administration.
A convention of governors, meeting
at Altoona, Pa, endorsed the Enamel
| patton Proclamation, pledged con-
tinued support to President Lincoln,
and suggested the formation of a re-
serve army of 100000 men.
| General Beauregard assumed COM
mand of the department of South Car
olina and Georgia.
/ General Butler, commanding the
Union occupation at New Orleans, is
sued an order directing that all for
mer citizens of the United States that
had refused to take the oath of al
legiance, or who held or pretended
| any allegiance to the Confederate
| states, should report themselves on or
| before the first of October to the near
est provost marshal, with descrip-
tive list of all their property, real,
personal, and mixed. made out and
| signed by themselves, with as much
particularly as for taxation.
The Confederate senate adopted a
seal for the Confederate States OF
America
September Is, 1862.
The convention of governors adj
journed from Altoona to meet in
Washington.
Sabine Pas, Texas, was attacked
and captured by the United States
steamer Kensington, under the com
mand of Acting Master Croker. as
sisted by the mortar boat Henry James
and blockading schooner Rachel Sea-
men.
Judge T. w. Thomas, in the supe-
rior court, Ebert county. Georgia, in
the case of James Lovingood, decided
that the Confederate CONSUMPTION act
was unconstitutional, and that, there
fore, the plaintiff was entitled to his
liberty.
September 26, 1852.
The Fifth and Sixth U. S. Regulars,
with a battery Of horse artillery, NOV
ing from Bolivar Heights, Maryland,
on a reconnaissance, approached with
In a mile and a half of Charlestown,
where they encountered the Confed-
crates in force and retired, after Skin
mishes in which they recaptured some
horses taken by the enemy at the bat
tie of Bull Run.