Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-05-03
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CIVIL WAR
FIFTY YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK


ers, in South Carolina. Fire was open
ed on the gpnboat fr9m distance OF
eighteen hundred yards as she adj
vanced, and continued until she pass
ed the last intervening bend. when
1 the Confederates in charge of the bat
I terry retreated. The battery was armed
/ with only two guns against the SUI
perior weight of metal of the enemy
The work was destroyed by a landing
| party.
! Gen. Pope lead his National forces
into Monterey. Tennessee, driving out
/ the small body of Confederates sta
toned there. Fifteen prisoners were
( captured, and a quantity of baggage
and supplies seized.
Timothy Webster, the first spy to be
condemned by the Confederate govern
ment, was executed at Richmond, vir-
ginia.
I The National forces under Gen o.
! M. Mitchell met Confederate army
under Gen. Il. Kirby Smith in battle
at Bridgeport, Alabama. The Confed-
crates were defeated with loss Of az
killed and $50 taken prisoners.
/ President Lincoln sent message to
4 the United States senate in reply to
a resolution of enquiry concerning the
! authority for the arrest of Gen
/ Charles p. Stone. In which he assumed
responsibility for the arrest, and
stated the trial would be held as soon
as certain witnesses could be spared
troll their activities in the field.
The Montgomery tAlabama) Adver-
/ User warned It's readers against agents
/ of the French government reported to
be in the city authorized to purchase
cotton for shipment to France under
the French flag. seeming collision be
tween the Federals and the French for
supplying cotton to France. to quiet
the foreign clamor for Intervention.
April 80, 1862.
A reconnaissance in force was made
by the right wing of the National army
from Pittsburg, Tennessee, toward
Purdy. The Nationals drove a force
of Confederate cavalry upon Purdy,
which place they occupied temporar-
lily. The Union troops burned two rail-
road bridges on the Memphis and Ohio
! railroad, and threw a locomotive into
the river. Three prisoners were la
ken, and the troops returned, having
cut off all railroad communication be-
tween Corinth and the north.
A resolution of censnre on Simeon
4 Cameron, late secretary of war, was
passed by the United States house of
representatives. as follows:
Resolved, That Simeon Cameron.
late secretary of war by investing
4 Alexander Cummings with the control
of large sums of the public money,
and authority to purchase military sup
| plies without restriction, without re-
! curing from him any guarantee for
the faithful performance of his duties,
/ when the services of competent pub
/ lie officials were available, and by In
volving the government in a vast num-
/ Der of contracts with persons not legi-
| timately engaged in the business per-
tanning to the subject matter OF such
contracts-especiall in the purchase
! of arms for future delivery, has adopt
| ed a policy highly injurious to the
public service, and deserving the CEN
sure OK the house"
May I, 1862.
The Confederate Colonel Morgan at
| tackled the train of General Mitchell
with his squadron near Pulaski,
Giles county, Tennessee, and captured
sixty wagons and about go men, who
were released on parole
General Grant was superseded in
command of the army near Corinth by
General Thomas. by an order transfer
ing General Thomas division from
the Army of the Ohio to the Army of
the Tennessee.
The Confederate schooner Sarah,
attempting to run the blockade be-
fore Bulls Bay, South Dakota, was
was driven ashore by party from the
Union blockader Onward.
Four hundred Germans from a Con-
federate Louisiana regiment went into
the Union lines at Corinth and sur
rendered as deserters.
Rumor rel orted that band OF Tex
ans had been defeated by a Union
force under General Candy at Poralto,
Tex, on April IS.
General Butler began the debarka-
ton of his Union troops at New Or
leans, and issued a proclamation de-
claring the intention of the United
States government to restore order,
maintain public tranquility, and en-
force peace and quiet"
The Union siege batteries opened
fire on the defenses before Yorktown.
Skirmishes occurred near Horizons
Mills, ten miles from Newburn, N. c.,
on the Pollockville road and at
Clark's Hollow, Va, in which the
Federals claimed the victory.
May 2, 1862.
Secretary Steward informed the for
eign ministers that the post routes
had been reopened at New Orleans,
that collector OF the port had been
appointed. and that the rules Of block
ade would be modified to apply to the