The Elbert County tribune., 1912-11-29

thousand Union infantry and two
thousand cavalry. under the command
of Gen. A. P. Hovey. leaving Helena,
Ark, on the 27th, for the purpose of
cutting rails and telegraph wires on
the Tennessee and Mississippi rail-
road. and creating . panic in the Con-
federats force under General Price.
arrived at Delta. Miss. Bridges on
both roads were destroyed, together
with two locomotives and numerous,
freight cars: but General Prices SOL
diers did not understand what was ex-
pected OF them. and failed of their
part OF the program.
The cavalry under General Wash
burne had several skirmishes with
General Prices rear guard. the main
body OF whose force was In retrograde
| movement to the Big Black river.
November 20, 1862.
The steamer Star was captured and
burned by Confederate partisans at a
point few miles below Plaquemine.
La She was surprised by the band
as she was taking on wood from the
bank. The captors removed some of
her cargo and set fire to the vessel.
letting the crew go free, but holding
her captain and engineer prisoners
of war.
Bob Whites Confederate cavalry
| was reported to have had the worst OF
It in brush with scouting party of
the Maryland Home Guards. under Cap.
tain Near, near Berlin, Md
GaparaI Curffo NJ o,,t. NJ.
reported to the war department az
Washington that cavalry expedition
under Major Torrey. to the forks OF
the Mingo and San Francisco rivers
had captured Colonel Phelan and ten
privates of the Confederate army.
The Savannah Republican said:
The people of Charleston, s. c.. have
pulled up their lead pipes and contrl
| buted sixty thousand pounds to the
government The government will is.
| sue receipts for all lead pipes and
ozher fixtures and binds itself to re.
place them at the end OF the war"
The advance column OF the Union
army. under General Grant, passed
through Holly Springs, Miss.
November 80, 1862.
There was a rumor In Washington
that proposition for an armistice for
thirty days had come from the Con-
| federate government, and that Cen
eral Lee was in the city negotiating
the terms.
A Union accommodating force ran
into the Confederates outside of their
works near Abbeyville, Miss, and
handled them rather roughly until they
withdrew behind their defenses. when
they were not molested further.
An expedition to Yellville. Ark, con-
sisting of three Union regiments, re-
turned to General Herron's camp. hav-
ing been partially successful in de-
stroying portions of the Confederate
saltpeter works, arsenal, and store
houses. with about five hundred rifles
and shot guns.
An expedition to Hyde county, N.
c., under the command of Major
| Gerard. of the Third Now York caval-
ry, having thoroughly destroyed all the
bridges In that vicinity, besides captur-
ing Colonel Carter, of the Thirteenth
North Carolina volunteers, and a Con-
federate sergeant. returned to New
bern.
George P. Kane, late marshal of
Maryland. issued an address to the
people OF the state, setting forth q
| statement relative to his Incarceration
In Fort Warren, whence he had lately
been released
The schooner Levi Rowe. while en-
deavoring to run the blockade at
Wilmington, N. c., was captured by
the National steamer Mount Vernon.
The bark Parker Cook was Destroy
ed In the Mona passage by the Con
federate privateer Alabama.
December I, 1862.
President LiDcoln's message to con-
gress. which convened on this date,
contained recommendations for three
amendments to the Constitution OF
| the United States. One was that any
state which should abolish slavery
within its borders by January l, 1900,
| should receive bonds from the gov
| ernment in compensation for the
slaves released. The second provided
that all slaves that might become
free by the chances of war should be
forever afterward free. but that IL
their masters had been loyal COM
pensation should be made. The third
provided that congress should be en-
powered to appropriate money for col
Cnizing free negroes.
A private OF the Ninth Maine was
executed at Hilton Head, s. c., for de-
sertion.
The Confederate forts and bat
terry on the Tallahatchie river were
captured by the cavalry attached to
General Grants forces, under COM
mand of Colonel Lee.
The Fourth Missouri cavalry defeat
ed a body of Confederate irregulars