Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-04-12

the two days firing.
The bill to emancipate slaves in the
district of Columbia passed the House.
John ]. Crittenden made powerful
protes. against agitating the question
of slavery.
Lieut.. J. G. Baker, U. S. ~, on board
the Confederate prize schooner Bride
with an armed crew, captured the
Confederate sloop Wren at Sharks
Point, Virginia
Huntsville Alabama, an important
point Of railroad communication be-
tween the southern states, was occu-
pied by the national forces under Cen
eral Mitchell early in the morning. The
Union soldiers made a forced march
Of eighteen hours and surprised the
town.
The Confederate ironclad Merrimac
appeared in Hampton Roads again
with six smaller craft, returning to
shelter after brief maneuvers, which
resulted in the capture of several
small Union craft.
There was skirmishing in the vicin.
ity of Yorktown during the day.
General Halleck arrived before Cor
nth and superseded General Grant.
April 10, 1852.
The Nassau IN. P.l Guardian, for
the encouragement Of ''the trade that
has recently grown up, and which. IL
fostered. may attain much wider pro-
portions" printed a list of vessels that
had arrived there after passing the
blockade of the southern ports. The
paper mentioned that the arrivals
from the Southern states were more
numerous than those from the North
ern states, where the trade WIS free
Of blockade.
Negro soldiers who had served in
the Confederate garrison at Fort
Pulaski were declared confiscated, and
set free, in a feneral order issued by
General Hunter, u. s. A.
Lowry's Point batteries on the Rap
pahannock, Virginia. were evacuated
by the Confederates.
General Mitchell, who had taken
Huntsville Alabama, from the Confed-
crates the day before, seized and held
hundred miles of the Charlestown
& Memphis railroad
Quantrell, the partisan fighter oper-
ating in Missouri, narrowly escaped
| capture by body of Union soldiers
sent against him. The national troops
came up with his band near the Little
Blue river, killed 1--WE, and took seven
teen. Quantrell, whose horse was
shot under him, escaped by swimming
across the river
/ The Union picket line near Monte
rey, Virginia, was driven .wo miles by
a Confederate attack. Several COM
| panfes coming to the support of the
pickets, lively skirmish ensued, with
out permanent advantage to either
side.
The U. S. revenue steamer Reliance
arrived at Baltimore with four cap
tured Confederate sloops
April IS, 1862.
A force OF four thousand National
soldiers left Pittsburg Landing In five
transports and proceeded up the Ten
nessee river. accompanied by the gun
boats Tyler and Lexington. Landing
near Eastport, Miss, they proceeded
to Bear Creek bridge, where they de-
stroyed two railroad bridges on the
Mobile and Ohio. The bridges were
guarded by cavalry force OF 100 Con-
federates, who escaped.
The u. s. s. s. Hercules, Lieut..
Thomas s. DUNCAN, captured the Con
Tolerate sloop Velma. A large mail,
part of which was addressed to per-
cnnu In naiftynora v,ao tnLan II me -
found that the Velma had cleared
from Pokomohe Sound, va, on the
eastern side of the bay, in loyal ter
ritory, but that she had discharged
her cargo In the Wicomico river, with
in the boundaries of belligerent Vir.
ginia. The master OF the vessel de-
clared himself a Confederate, assert
ing that he would rot In prison be-
fore he would take the oath OF alleg1.
ance.
The Union gunboat fiotilla, under
Commodore Foote, on its way down
the Mississippi to Fort Pillow, was at
tackled by five Confederate gunboats
at Needham's Cutoff, forty-five miles
below New Madrid. The Confederates
were compelled to retire before SUI
perior force.
Major General Halleck, in a dis
patch from Pittsburg Landing to Sec
rotary Stanton, recommended that CEN
eral Sherman be promoted to major
generalship for his services at the bat
tie on the 9th and 7th Of April at
Pittsburg Landing. HaIleck made no
mention Of Grant in his message COM
/ mending Sherman, whom he credited
with having saved the fortunes OF the
day on the 9th, and contributed large
ly to the glorious victory of the 7th."
! April IA, 1862.
The Union Potomac fiotilIa made a
/ raid up the Rappahannock river as
far as Urbana, four miles below Fred,
ericksburg. An attempt to land at
Urbana was frustrated by Confed-