Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-03-01
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CIVIL WAR
fluffy YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
February Is, 1862.

-0S0HIiy USED as capital of the state
was entered and possessed by tba
national troops under General Mol.
son, U. 5. A. The government Offices
nad been removed from Nashville to
memphis some days before the occu.
patton, and the Confederate forces
mad recently withdrawn. manic
broke among the citizens at news of
the approach OF the Union army. and
many or them fled with the southern
troops.
The Federal government took dras-
TIC steps to prevent leakage of mill
tary news from the wires. By order
from Washington, the telegraph lines
In all states were taken possession OF
by the war department. News dis
patches were to be vigorously CEN
sored, and any newspaper or period
1cal that should publish news that
had not been authorized for publica-
ton by the department was ordered
thenceforth to be denied the priv
1leges of the wires.
Gen. Sterling Price made a report
to Gov. G. F. Jackson of Missouri OF
the retreat Of his Confederate force
from Missouri. He stated that, hay
Ing occupied Springfield for the pur-
pose of being within reach Of sup
plies, he had been attacked by an
overwhelming force of Federals and
had deemed it expedient to retreat.
After four days march he reached
Cross Hollows, Ark. The report was
dated at camp on Cove Creek, Ark.
February 20, 1862.
Reverdy Johnson, member of the
Maryland house of delegates from
Baltimore county, introduced into the
house resolutions declaring the 10y
atty of the state to the Union. The
resolution was provoked by an as
sertion attributed to President jeff
Davis that Maryland, already united
to us by hallowed memories and ma
terial interests, will, when able to
speak with justified voice, unite her
destiny to the south"
In a raid on Keittsville, Barry
county, Missouri, a body of Texas
Rangers inflicted considerable dam
age on Captain Montgomery's COM
pany Of Wright's battalion, captured
seventy horses and burned two
wagon loads of suffers supplies.
President Lincoln approved the
legal tender bill authorizing loan
of $500,000,000.
The Union gunboat r. B. Forbes,
having run aground on Mays Head,
N. c., was set afire and burned to
prevent its falling into the hands OF
the Confederates.
A meeting of cotton and tobacco
planters was held in Richmond to
consider the destruction of the cotton
and tobacco crops to prevent their
falling into the hands OF the Union
army.
February 81, 1862.
News Item: ''Mr. Ericsson's iron
clad steamer, the Monitor, went to
sea from New York today for some
unknown destination. Mr.. Ericsson
was on board, and desires to test the
fnvulnerability of his ship by engag-
envy which can be got at. The Mon
itor carries only two eleven-inch col
umbiads. Lieutenant Worden, VINO
commands the battery, is an officer or
great experience and tried courage,
and the sailors and gunners are pick
ed men,"
A. B. Hill and J. J. Pettigrew were
made brigadier generals by the Con
federate senate at Richmond, Virginia.
A resolution was enthusiastically
passed that no peace proposition
would be entertained excluding any
norton of the Confederate states, ana
declaring that the war would be con-
+inued until the national forces were
entirely expelled from the Confeder-
acy.
The evacuation of Columbus, Ken
tricky. by the Confederates, was conf
menced. The position had been rem
dered untenable by the successes OF
the national forces at Forts Henry
and Donelson.
Martial law was proclaimed by Pres
tdent Davis over Norfolk and Ports
mouth. Virginia, and the writ OF nap
cas- corpus was suspended. me
proclamati ion included an area of ten
miles about each town.
Mr.. Davis of Kentucky introduced
q confiscation bill in the United states
senate as substitute for that lntro-
duced by Mr.. Trumbull. Tho law pro-
nosed to apply the conf1scated prop
erty to the benefit OF those VINO hao
suffered loss by the war
February %, 1862.
The British ship Labuan, captured
nv the Vnited States sloop OF war
portsmouth near Breca RIGA, at inc
mouth of the Rio Grande. arrived IN
New York in charge of a prize crew
She carried a cargo valued at WOO
600 A large quantity of blankets
formed a part of it. She was suspect
ed of purpose to run the blockade:
The Confederate steamer NasnVnie'
of tha COuf6QGT-