Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-07-31

| ter at Newark, Mo. The COnfederateS
captured 100 guns, large number OF
| horses, a quantity of commissary
stores, a number of tents and 5000
or 10000 rounds of cartridges.
A accommodating force under Gen.
eral Bayard of the Union army had a
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 were 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 a
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 of a CORE.
spondence between himself and Gen.
eral Phelps in relation to the military
employment of the negroes of Lou.
| isiana.
A band of Confederates attacked
company Of national troops at Ozark,
Mo-, at daylight, but failed of a sur
prise, Captain Birch of the Union
troops having been apprised of the at.
tack and withdrawn his troops from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 a 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. Al
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
a cargo of twelve Armstrong guns and
equipments, several thousand Enfield
rifles and various other munitions OF
war, was captured off the Bahamas
after a 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. c.
A reconnaissance was made by a
force of Union troops, under the com
mand of Colonel Averin, from the
James River to within fourteen miles
of Petersburg, Va. When about five
miles from Cox's river they encoun.
| tered the Thirteenth Virginia cavalry
of the enemy, which broke before a
determined charge made by the supe'
rior Federal force. Reforming at
their camp two miles beyond, the Con.
| federates were once more driven, leav.
ing behind them much Of their camp
equipment and stores, which the
Union troops gathered together and
! burned.
August 4, 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
was greatly disturbed in expectation
of the Confederate ram Georgia.
An order directing that a draft OF
5000 militia be Immediately called
into the service of the United States,
TO serve nine months, or unless soon.
er DISCHARGED" was issued by the war