Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-08-09
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CIVIL WAR
FIFTY YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK


Recruiting for the old and new regi-
ients under the call of President Lin
oln for 100000 men was carried on
nth great vigor throughout the north,
itizens of every state making extreme
forts to bring their states enlistment
p to the full quota.
The war department of the United
ltates issued an order exempting from
he recent order for draft all men
rho had actually been employed in
onstructing or operating telegraph
ines at the time the draft order was
ssued. The exemption was made on
he basis that the telegraph lines, be-
ng used for military purposes, were
a way a part of the military serv-
&c.
The battle of Baton Rouge, La, was
ought between a force of Confeder-
ties under General Breckenridge and
Nationals under Gen. Thomas Will
Jams. The Confederates, attacking at
lay]ight, precipitated a savage con-
let in which the National troops were
riven from their position in consider
lble confusion. Later they rallied
md returned to the attack, finally sue
eeding in dislodging the Confeder-
ties from the camp they had lately
aptured.
A accommodating force of Union
roops under General Hooker encoun-
cred body of Confederates stationed
N Malvern Hill, Virginia. After a
light lasting two hours, the Confeder-
ties withdrew in good order, leaving
hooker on the hill.
August 8, 1862.
Citizens of Point Pleasant, Mo-, came
nto conflict with the state militia
through resisting the draft.
Major Montgomery, at the head Of a
mall force of Union troops, fell in
With a band of Confederate partisans
lear Montevallo, Mo-, and succeeded in
irving them off, after sharp Skin
nish.
w. D. Porter, commanding division
# the Mississippi gunboat fleet, at
acked and destroyed the Confederate
am Arkansas few miles above Baton
Rouge.
The editors and publishers of the Pa
riot and Union of Harrisburg, Pa,
we're arrested charged with issuing
reasonable posters calculated to re-
ard recruiting.
Brig. Gen. Robert L. McCook died as
he result of wounds received from a
,and of Confederate guerrliias that at
acked the ambulance in which he was
iding from Athens to Dechard, Tenn.
Skirmishes lasting two days near
razewell, Tenn, were terminated on
he 9Th by the withdrawal of the Con-
,ederates.
Col. Thomas G. Johnson, aid to the
Confederate General Price, issued the
blowing call to the citizens of Mis-
Iissippi: 81 am in your midst for the
purpose of procuring shoes and yarn
ocki for General Prices army. Some
If his veterans-men who have been in
Xix or eight pitched battles and TWEEN
y skirmishes-are today destitute of
.hese articles"
August z, 1862.
At Blackburn, England, a large pub
lie meeting was held to consider the
advisability of recognizing the South
ern States of America, with view to
bringing about an early termination
Of hostilities. A resolution was pre-
sented before the meeting asking the
Queen to join with other European
powers in Intervention. A substitute
resolution was finally adopted urging
the British government to join with
other European powers in urging the
contending sections of the United
States to submit their differences to
arbitration.
The Confederate expedition to New
Mexico, under Col. Sibley, was met
aear Fort Fillmore by a body of Cali
fornia troops commanded by Colonel
Candy. The Confederates were de-
,eated. Colonel Sibley was assassi-
mated by his own men, who accused
him of drunkenness and ineff1ciency.
Captain Faulkner's command of
Confederate cavalry, encamped in a
swamp near Trenton, Tenn, was sur
prised by a detachment of the Second
Illinois cavalry and lost 80 killed and
20 wounded.
Colonel McNeill. with a force of
900 National troops, defeated the
Confederate partisan Porter at Kinks
Ville, Mo.
Major Montgomery, with a body of
Union troops, defeated the Confeder-
ate partisan Coffin in Dodd county,
Missouri
Malvern Hill was abandoned by the
Union troops under General Hooker,
Information having been received
hat an overwhelming force of Con-
.ederates under Gen. A. P. Hill was
advancing toward that place.
August 8, 1862.
General Rousseau of the Union
irmy issued the following order at
Huntsville, Alabama: Almost every
lay murders are committed by law
ess bands of robbers and marauders
iring into railroad trains. To pre-
rent this or to let the guilty suffer
With the innocent. IL Is ordered that