Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-02-21

it would ruin the Industrial pursuits
of the state and leave us without the
means of prosecuting the war beyond
the present session. There will be no
want of men without any extraordinary
legislation. If there should be
deficiency, it could easily be sup
piled by draft. -
In a battle that lasted from nine
o'clock in the morning until shutdown,
near Valverde, N. NJ, a Confederate
force under Colonel Steele defeated
and drove in a Federal force under
Colonel Candy Valverde was little
town on the Rio Grande river, near
the boundary between New Mexico
and Arizona, and seven miles from
Fort Craig. The Federal force, which
comprised the garrison of Fort Craig,
was supported by a battery of six
guns under Captain McRae Captain
McRae was killed in charge by the
Confederates and the battery was cap
tured.
Capt. Nathaniel P Gordon, COM
mander of the slave ship Erie, was
executed at New York, according to
sentence. He had attempted to COM
nit suicide at three o'clock in the
morning by taking strychnine, but the
physicians succeeded in prolonging his
life until it could be taken by process
of law
February %, 1862.
Jefferson Davis was inaugurated
president of the Confederate States of
America at Richmond, Va. The cere-
mony was at noon, in front of the cap
ital The oath of Office was admins
tered by J. D. Halyburton, Confeder-
ate Judge.
Western Tennessee was proclaimed
under martial law by General Grant in
a proclamation issued from Fort Dom
elson. whenever a sufficient num-
Der of citizens return to their allegi-
ance to maintain law and order over
the territory, the military restriction
will be removed" the order concluded.
Henry T. Clark, Confederate govern
or Of North Carolina, issued a procla-
nation calling on the people of the
state to respond to the requisition
made on the state by the Confederate
government for men and money.
Washington's birthday was general
| ly celebrated throughout the nation,
and the army and navy. The sloop-of-
war Adirondack was launched at the
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navy yard at Brooklyn.
A breakfast given by Americans in
| London in honor of the birthday OF
Washington was made the occasion OF
patriotic speeches and the expression
of friendliness toward Great Britain.
| The breakfast was held in Free Ma
sons hall. Two hundred persons at
tended The bishop of Ohio presided.
The Hon. G. F. Adams, United States
minister to Great Britain, responded
to the toast George Washington" The
bishop of Ohia proposed the health OF
| Queen Victoria. Mr.. Moss, United
consul at London, proposed "The
Union" and Cyrus w Field spoke to
England and America"
President Lincoln's order Of January
81 for a general advance on February
% was not obeyed.
February %, 1862.
Fayetteville, Ark, a town on the
White river, $50 miles west of Little
Rock, was burned and abandoned by
a force of Confederates today, before
the advance of Federal force under
| General Curtis. The Confederates,
who were greatly outnumbered, re-
treated over the Boston mountains.
General HalIeck issued an order to
all the troops under his command de-
fining the policy to be pursued by the
| forces as they advanced. Private
property was ordered to be strictly re-
spected, and all non-combatants treat
| ed at neutrals, unless they were
known to be giving aid to the Confed-
crates, in which case they were to
be treated as belligerents. Regarding
the slavery question as matter for
the civil authorities, he prohibited the
admission of fugitive slaves within the
Union lines except by special order OF
the generals commanding.
Nashville, Tenn, was evacuated by
the Confederates, having become I'M
tenable since the fall Of Forts Henry
and Donelson and the advance of the
Union army by river.
President Lincoln appointed Andrew
Johnson military governor of Tennes-
see.
February "a, 1862.
An expedition composed OF four
| iron-clad gunboats and two mortar
/ boats, with the Twenty-seventh lii
nois and a battalion of the Eighth
| Wisconsin made a reconnaissance
from Cairo to Columbus. The Con-
| federates were found to have seized
| all the fat boats and skiffs as far up
| the river as they dared to go. A
/! movement of the troops in Columbus