Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-01-05
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CIVIL WAR
FIFTY YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
December 81, 1861.

The New York Times of date nrinted
the following: "The Canadian press
comments upon the release of Messrs
Mason and Slidell in the same shirt
winch has prompted its various repre-
sensations hitherto III their treatment
or the rebellion. The Leader uses
the most abusive language at its com
mand. 1t pronounces the surrender
one or the greatest collapses since the
beginning Of time, and has much to
say of the humiliation of the national
government. The Globe talks much
mere moderately, and heartily con-
graduates its readers on the result;
and the Montreal Gazette speaks of it
as "a bitter, bitter pill for the fire
eaters to cram down their noisy
throats.''
The United States gunboats under
Commander Melancthon Smith left
Ships Island, in the Gulf of Mexico.
with q heavy force of marines and
proceeded to Biloxi, Miss. Although
there was a battery at the place, it
was not manned, and Commander
Smith took possession of the town
without meeting resistance He car
rled the guns from the batteries
aboard the gunboats and returned to
Ship Island, having meanwhile captur-
ed a schooner loaded With hard pine
flooring that endeavored to slip be-
hind the island on the way to New
Orleans.
The term of enlistment in the north
ern army was extended during the
month from one to three years. and a
bounty of $50 was offered.
January 1, 1862.
Messrs. Mason and Slidell were sur
rendered by the United States gov
eminent to the British government.
They were taken in the tug Star
light from Fort Warren, in Boston
harbor, where they had been detain-
ed as prisoners of war, to Providence.
town, on Cape Cod, where they were
delivered on board the British gun.
boat Rinaldo. The RinaIdo immedi-
ately put to sea, bearing Mason and
Slidell to the posts toward which
they had been travelling when taken
off the British mail steamer Trent by
Captain Wilkes, U. S. N, two months
before.
A joint expedition of United States
gunboats under Commander G. r. p.
Rodgers and infantry under General
Stevens, which had left Port Royal
Harbor, S. c., the previous evening,
crossed the Coos2w river and attack
ad +ba Co-,faTorofa fort at PORT R0vaJ
ferry. The Confederate garrison
was driven from their works by the
heavy shell fire of the gunboats, but
subsequently returned and made a de.
termined attack on the Union forces
who had occupied their recently aban.
doned position. The gunboats again
decided the issue with their shell fire
The United State Fort Pickens, in
Pensacola harbor, again opened fire
on the Confederate steamship Time
The response was taken up by the
Confederate Forts Fisher and Bar
rancas. Little damage was done on
either side, beyond a fire that broke
out in Warrington as result of the
explosion OF Union shells.
The british bark Empress of Hull
which was captured by the United
States sloop Vincennes at Pas a
POutre in an attempt to run the
blockade of New Orleans, arrived in
New York with a. prize crew. She
was from Rio Janeiro with $500 bags
of coffee.
The Federal prisoners removed by
the Confederates from Charleston, s.
c., arrived at Columbia, S. G.
January 2, 1862.
The Confederates resumed their at
tack on the fort at Port Royal Ferry,
from which they had been driven and
subsequently held by the Federal ex'
pedition under Commander Rodgers
and General Stevens, and succeeded
in dislodging the Union force. On
der cover of a heavy fire from the
a,nboats, the Federals recrossed the
Cootaw and withdrew to Port Royal
Harbor. leaving the fort in the pos
session OF the Confederates.
The Confederate battery at COCK
nit Point, on the Potomac, was at
tackled by the Union gunboat Ana
costa and the steamer Yankee. Inc
Apacostia took @ position out or the
range of fire from the battery, but the
Yankee was hit by Confederate snot
that knocked away two OF her knees
forward and pierced the forecastie.
The steamship Ella Marley. Tor
merly the Isabel of Nassau, made a
successful attempt to run the DOCK
ade of Charleston. and arrived thefe
early in the morning. She carried a
valuable miscellaneous cargo. one
of her passengers was MI. blsoie'
formerly a delegate to the virginia
legislature, bearing Important us
matches from Mr.. Yancey.
General Stone, U. S. A, issued an
order at PoolesvilIe, Nd, warming
troops of his command from incitihs
the slaves to INSTRUMENTATION anu in'
surrection
The Memphis Argus reported zen gen.
eral Price. C. S. A, IN tuii eelea'
southwark through Missouri before
the advance of three Union armies
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