Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-02
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CIVIL WAR
FIFTY YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK

July 20, 1862.
Major General Pope, accompanied by
his staff, left Washington for the head
quarters of the army in the field. Be
fore his departure he orderd that
passes to the lines of his forces should
| not be granted to Others than those
4 having official business there.
l The English brig Napier was cap
1 trued by the q. S. s. S. Mystic while en-
deavoring to run the blockade of Viii
mington, n. C.
The citizens of Mount Stirling, KY,
succeeded in driving of party of ir-
[ regulars with a loss reported of 70
in killed. wounded and taken pris-
oners.
! A Union force defeated a band of
/ partisans near Bollingers Mills, Mo.
General Pope and his staff arrived
at Warrenton. Va. at noon, creating
great CONSERVATION among the seces-
sionists, nearly all Of whom had taken
Confederate oaths of allegiance, and
| insisted that General Pope dared not
carry out the intentions declared in
his proclamation.
Colonel Lloyd of the Sixth Ohio cav
airy, pursuant of General Pope's or
ders, arrested all the male inhabitants
of Luray, Va. and lodged them in the
court house preparatory to giving them
the oath of allegiance.
The Confederate batteries at Gene
sis Point, on Ogeechee river, were
shelled by the national gunboats
Russellville, KY, was captured by a
band of Confederate partisans, the
home guard being unable to drive off
their attack.
A detachment of Union cavalry I'M
der Captain Dollin attacked force of
Confederate cavalry near Brownsville,
KY, capturing so of them. The Con-
federates. reinforced, captured 20 men
and IA horses.
July go, 1862.
John H. Morgan of the Confederate
army, reported to Major General E.
Kirby Smith, commanding the Confed-
crate forces in eastern Tennessee, the
result of his recent raid with irregu-
lar troops. Leaving Knoxville, Tenn,
on the Fourth of July, with 900 men,
he captured II towns, destroying the
national stores in each, dispersed
$500 home guards, paroled 1900 regu-
lars, and returned on the 2Sth with
1900 men, having travelled l 900 miles
in "a days. The entire loss in killed,
wounded and missing was less than
100.
The bells contributed to the Confed.
crate government by the churches,
planters and others to be made into
cannon, and seized in New Orleans by
General Butler, were sold at auction in
Boston
John r. Lee, acting master of the
q. S. S. S. E. 3. Hale, assembled Todd
Greek, Georgia, with a party and de
stroyed a Confederate salt works that
was in successful operation.
An attempt to capture the tug Ach.
lilies, lying off Harrisons Landing, on
the James river, by a body of Con
federates, was frustrated.
A body of guerrillas under Joe
Thompson entered Paris, KY, cut down
the flag pole, took the sheriff and the
clerks of the circuit and county courts
prisoners, forced the keys to the Jail
from the jaiIer and liberated prisoners,
obtained such indictments of citizens
as they desired from the clerk of the
circuit court, helped themselves to
goods in the stores, took supper with
the citizens, and left after dark They
were followed and slightly punished by
a party of the Ninth Pennsylvania cav
| airy.
July 81, 1862.
The secretary OF war Of the United
States issued an order revoking all
furloughs and leaves of absence from
the army except those granted by the
department, on Monday, the 18th of
August, and ordering all officers capa-
BILE of service to join their regiments
forthwith under penalty of dismissal
from the service or court-martial On
Monday, August 10, the order warned,
each regiment and corps would be
mustered, the absentees would be
marked, and if not appearing within IS
hours, would be dismissed from the
service or treated as deserters.
Several vessels from the mortar fleet
that had been operating on the Mis-
sissippi under command of Commodore
Porter arrived at Fortress Monroe.
The Confederate steamer Memphis
was captured by the United States
gunboat Magnolia she having run the
blockade of Charleston. S. c.. on the
night of the 9th.
August I, 1862.
Confederate batteries at Coggin's
Point, opposite to Harrison's land
ing, Virginia. opened fire on the Union
army under General Mcclellan and the
Federal fleet The batteries were ST.