Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-02

ing and destroyed all the houses Of
that town without losing man.
A company of the Missouri state mi
litia was captured by band Of Con.
federate irregulars under Colonel Por-
ter at Newark. Mo. The Confederates
captured 100 guns. large number of
horses, quantity of commissary
stores, a number of tents and 5000
or 10000 rounds of cartridges.
A accommodating force under Cen
eral Bayard Of the Union army had
series Of skirmishes with the Confed-
crates along the Rapidan.
In retort upon General Pope's recent
order that anyone captured who had
violated the oath of allegiance to the
United States should be shot, Presi-
| dent Davis Of the Confederate States
issued an order that General Pope
and officers serving under him were
not to be considered as soldiers, and
not to be given the privileges of pris-
oners of war If taken, but confined
closely as long as the order of General
Pope was in effect Threats Of retrib-
utive execution of hostages We're also
made in the order.
August 2, 1862.
A woman named Belle Boyd, who
had been acting as a mail carrier for
the Confederates from points along
the Potomac and within the lines of
the Union army, to Richmond, and
who had functioned presumably as n
spy was captured near Warrenton,
Va, and sent to the Old Capitol pris-
on at Washington.
General Butler transmitted to the
secretary of war copies az a CORE
i spondence between himself and Gem
eral Phelps in relation to the military
employment of the negroes of Lou.
isiana.
A band of Confederates attacked a
company of national troops at Ozark,
Mo-, at daylight, but failed of sur
prise, Captain Birch of the Union
troops having been appraised of the at
1 tack and withdrawn his troops from
their camp to the brush. Here they
were called upon the surrender, but
put up such a stiff resistance that the
Confederates withdrew.
The bark Harriet Ralli, the first
French vessel captured since the COM
mencement of the war, arrived at New
York from New Orleans, where she
had been seized by, General Butler a
short time before the city was occu-
pied by the Union forces.
A sharp fight took place at Orange
Court House, Va, between a recon.
noitering party of Union troops under
the command of General Crawford
and a force of Confederates, in which
the Union troops were successful In
driving the enemy. after they had suf.
fered loss of four men killed and six
teen wounded.
August 8, 1862.
General Sherman, commanding the
United States forces at Memphis, is
sued an order directing all able-bodied
negroes who might apply for work
on Fort Pickering or other govern
ment work to be received and EN-
ployed by the proper officer in charge
Such would be supplied with rations
necessary clothing, and tobacco. Ar
account was to be opened with each
individual, and his wages charged with
the clothing and tobacco furnished
but no wages were to be paid until
the courts should have decided wheth
er the negroes were slave or free.
The British steamer Columbia, with
cargo of twelve Armstrong guns and
equipments, several thousand Enfield
rifles and various other munitions OF
war, was captured off the Bahamas
after chase of several hours by the
U. S. S. Santiago de Cuba.
The town of Alexandria, Mo-, was
pillaged by band OF Confederate par
tisans.
The schooner Aquilla was captured
by the United States gunboat Huron
while attempting to run The blockade
off Charleston, s. G.
A reconnaissance was made by q
force of Union troops, under the com
mand of Colonel Averill, from the
James River to within fourteen miles
of Petersburg. Va. When about five
miles from Cox's river they enc dn
tered the Thirteenth Virginia cavalry
of the enemy, which broke before a
determined charge made by the supe
rior Federal force. Reforming al
their camp two miles beyond. the Con
federates were once more driven, Ieav.
ing behind them much of their camp
equipment and stores, which the
Union troops gathered together and
burned.
August a, 1862.
An important debate took place in
the English house of lords on the
propriety of recognizing the southern
Confederacy.
Governor Sprague of Rhode Island
issued an order calling on the colored
citizens OF that state to enlist in the
Sixth Rhode Island negro regiment,
then forming
The Union fleet before Port Royal