Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-06-07

Confederates continued their retreat.
June 2, 1862.
On the Chickahominy river the Con-
federates opened fire on the pickets OF
General Summers Union force. but
without effect.
The Paris Constitutional published
an article to show the impossibility
OF the south being conquered. and
maintaining that mediation alone
would succeed in putting an end to a
war disastrous to the interests of hu-
mainly
William Mumford, citizen of New
Orleans, was hanged in that city by
order of General Butler for an overt
act of treason in pulling down the
United States flag from the mint.
In the Missouri convention a bin
for the gradual emancipation of the
slaves was submitted and defeated by
a vote of fifty-two to nineteen.
Memphis, Tenn, was formally taken
possession OF by the Union forces in
the name of the government of the
United States by Col. G. N. Fitch.
commanding the Indiana brigade.
The schooner Rowena. formerly the
GaTibaldi, ran into Stone Inlet. S. G.
not knowing It to be in possession OF
the National forces, and was captured
by the gunboat Pawnee.
The Confederate batteries at Chat.
tanooga, Tenn, were silenced by the
artillery of General Negley-s command
after a bombardment of three hours.
June 9, 1862.
A accommodating party under Lien.
tenant Bonse of the Tenth Virginia
Union regiment, captured three bush.
whackers" that had been doing mis-
chief against the Union army in west
ern Virginia,
General Fremont attacked StonewalI
jackson seven miles beyond Harrison.
burgh, Va, near Union Church or
Cross Keys, at $3.50 in the morning.
Jackson withdrew from his position
after several hours of lighting.
General Turner Ashby of the Con-
federate cavalry was buried at Char.
lottesville, Va.
Judge Swayne OF Memphis, Tenn,
refused to open the criminal court in
that city after receiving an order
from Col. G. N Fitch, commanding
United States forces, instructing him
to contlne himself to the hearing and
adjudication of such cases only as
We're not based on the recognition or
o rF fo&~ a.
the Union, or on the presumption OF
the establishment of the so-called
southern Confederacy, or recognizing
the same,
A small force of Union troops, while
on reconnaissance in the vicinity OF
New Market, va. captured a Confed
crate spy named Hance, who had been
engaged in carrying information from
the Union army to the Confederate
headquarters in Richmond.
A reconnaissance was made, under
cover of the Union gunhoats, by
body Of National troops under Colonel
Morrow, on James Island, S. G. The
Union forces drove the NConfederates
for two miles, and were at one time
within three miles of the city OF
Charlestown, and in Gull view of Fort
Sumter The object OF the recon-
noissance accomplished, the troops
fell back to their former position, los
ing two killed and seven wounded.
June 9, 1862.
General Jackson, too close pressed
in his retreat from the Shenandoah,
turned on the advance body OF Gen.
eral Fremont's Union army under Gen.
eral Shields, near Fort Republic, Va,
and drove them back upon the main
force, Having checked the Union
army. he continued his retreat.
The senate of the United States re-
solved itself into High Court OF I'M
parchment for the trial OF Judge
Humphreys of Tennessee. for treason,
but proceedings were postponed until
the Goth
The house bill prohibiting slavery
in the territories was passed.
Secretary Wells addressed a long
communication to the senate on the
construction OF armored ships.
General Halleck at Corinth sent the
following dispatch to the war depart
ment: "The enemy has fallen back
fifty miles from here by railroad, and
nearly seventy by wagon road. GEN
eral Pope estimates the rebel loss
from casualties. prisoners and deser-
ton at over twenty thousand, and
General Buell. at between twenty and
thirty thousand.
"A person who was employed in the
Confederate commissary department
says they had one hundred and twenty
Thousand men In Corinth, and that
now they cannot muster over eighty
thousand. Some of the fresh graves
on the road have been opened and
found full of arms. Many of the pris-
oners beg not to be exchanged, saying
they purposely allowed themselves to
be taken. Beauregard himself retreat.
ed from Baldwin on Saturday after.
noon to Okolona, Miss
Brig. Gen. D. b. Birney, having been