Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1912-12-27
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CIVIL WAR
FIFTY YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
December 20, 1862.

December %, 1862.
President Jefferson Davis issued nro-
ciamation declaring General Butler. re-
Gently relieved of command of the De-
partment of the Gulf, to be a felon and
deserving of capital punishment. and
ordering that he should no longer be
considered or treated merely as a pub
lie enemy Of the Confederate States.
but an outlaw and common enemy to
mankind.
The Confederate schooner Pelican.
with a cargo of eighty-two bales of
cotton, ran the blockade at Mobile.
Ala
Maj. p Graham and Lieut.. E. T.
Dorton, both of the Fifteenth Arkansas
Confederate cavalry, being convinced
OF the wickedness and folly" of
secession, respectfully requested alike
the privilege of returning peacefully
to their allegiance and their homes"
In the north.
A trusty negro saved a squadron of
tfe Eighth Pennsylvania cavalry from
being captured by a party of Confed-
crates, who had planned to cross the
Rappahannock fourteen miles below
Fort Conway, Va, and seize them.
The negro, who got wind of the
scheme from other blacks, informed
the National soldiers, and the attempt
was abandoned when the Confederates
found their plan was discovered.
The National forces moved from
Romney, Va, and took possession of
Winchester.
December "a, 1862.
In promulgating President Lincoln's
preliminary proclamation of emanclp-
alton of the slaves, General Banks,
commanding the Department of the
Gulf, issued an address to the people
of Louisiana in order to correct mis-
understanding and misrepresentation
concerning the purpose Of the eman-
cipation.
In a public letter written December
"a, 1860, given out on this date,
Alexander Fl. Stephens, vice president
of the Confederate Ste es of America,
said: While hope for the best,
am prepared for the worst. The cleo
ton of Mr. Lincoln, I am well per
suaded, is owing much more to the
divisions of the Democratic party and
the disastrous personal strifes among
It's leaders at Baltimore and Charles
town, than to any fixed determination
OF the part of a majority of the people
Of the North to wage an exterminating
warfare against Southern institutions.
/ can but believe that there
Is still enough patriotism in the land,
north as well as south, to save the
present Union under the existing con-
stitution, with all it's guarantees and
obligations, If the great heart of the
nation can be touched and aroused.
All that is wanting is little time and
patriotic forbearance.
The advance guard of the Confeder-
ate General Morgan's advancing
column had brush near Munfords-
vile, KY, with the Second Michigan
cavalry.
A portion of the Eleventh Penn
sylvania cavalry had lively skirmish
on the Blackwater river, nesr Franklin,
with a Confederate cavalry squadron
and infantry company.
A detachment of General Sherman's
expeditionary command, under Gen. M.
L. Smith, destroyed a section Of the
Vicksburg and Texas railway, about
ten miles west Of Vicksburg, and
burned the station at Delhi and Dallas.
December IS, 1862.
General Morgan's advance guard
came upon a force of Union cavalry
under Colonel Gray at Green's Chapel,
near Munfordsville, KY, and fell back
on the main column with loss OF
nine killed, twenty-five wounded, and
five prisoners.
The Confederate schooner Break
O. Day, with a cargo of cotton, ran the
blockade at Mobile, Ala
Colonel Shank, in command of the
Twelfth Kentucky Federal cavalry, at
tackled General Morgan's rear guard
at Bear Wallow, KY, and punished
them severely before he could be driven
off. He captured twelve officers and
men,
In a skirmish Morgan's advance
guard drove off the Second Michigan,
at Bacon creek, near Munfordsville,
KY, capturing twenty men and two
officers.
December &c, 1862.
Thirty-eight Indians were hanged at
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