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ce fourteen miles from his base,
out drove them OF.
The Confederate salt works at Yell
vile, Ark, which had cost the Confed-
crate government $4,000 were de
stroyed by National troops Six
thousand dollars worth of saltpeter
was destroyed.
| Brig.-Gen. Stanley, with Union
force from Nashville, Taided Franklin.
/ Tenn, where he destroyed mills and
other valuable property useful to the
IConfederates. and captured several
| prisoners.
December f3, 1862.
The Union Army of the Potomac,
under General Burnside, was disas-
trously defeated at the Battle of Fred
ericksburg, with terrible loss. The
Confederates under Lee, occupying the
hills behind the town, where they
We're heavily entrenched and armed
with artillery, repulsed number of
terrific assaults from the Union lines,
who attacked persistently, but with.
out avail. The battle was one of the
most bloody and fiercely contested of
the war to thats slime, and one Of the
most disastrous to the Union forces.
Jefferson Davis, president of the
Confederacy, reviewed the army of
General Bragg at Murfreesboro, Tenn
A large force Of Union infantry and
cavalry surprised band of Confeder-
ates at Tuscumbia, Ala, and captured
seventy of them.
| Governor Johnson, provisional gov
ernor of Tennessee, issued an order
assessing certain individuals in the
city of Nashville in various amounts
in behalf of the many helpless Wild
ows, wives, and children in the city
Of Nashville who have been reduced
to poverty and wretchedness in con-
sequence of their husbands, sons,
and fathers having been forced into
the armies of this unholy and nefarious
rebellion
General Fosters expeditionary force
into North Carolina had trouble with
Confederates at South West creek,
North Carolina. The Confederates,
heavily outnumbered, we're driven off
| A fleet of small boats, leaving New
bern, N. c., to attack the Confederate
works at Kinston, was compelled to
retire because of slack water in the
river, which made it impossible for
them to navigate.
December IA, 1862.
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hundred rifles, forty thousand rounds
of ammunition, several hundred uni
forms, and large supply of pro-
visions, belonging to the Thirty-ninth
National Kentucky regiment, at Wire
mans Shoals, five miles below Pres
tonburg, KY, overpowering the Union
guard that was conveying the stuff to
the regiment.
The True Presbyterian and the
Baptist Recorder, published in Louis
vile, KY, were suppressed, and the edi
tor of the Recorder sent to the mill
tary prison, for utterances hostile to
the Federal government.
Coffeeville, Miss, was occupied by
the Union cavalry of Colonels Lee
and Miner.
| General Fosters Union column, adj
railroads, fought pitched battle with
the Confederates under General Evans
at Kinston, N. G.. The Confederates
were defeated, with a loss of bat
terry of artillery and four hundred pris-
oners, and the Federals occupied the
town.
At Helena, Ark, Union picket
guard, consisting Of a lieutenant and
twenty three men, was surrounded and
captured by band of Confederate
irregulars
| There was a slight skirmish at
Woodsonville, Tenn.
A body of Confederate cavalry
made a raid on Poolsville, Mo-, at
eight o'clock in the evening, and cap
tured a party of the Scott Nine Hun
dred cavalry.
Mexican bandits attacked wagon
train laden with provisions and cloth
ling for the troops at Ringgold Bar
racks, Tex, killing all the soldier
guard and transfers with the excep-
! ton of one man, who escaped. The
train was on the way from Fort Brown
to the Barracks.
December is, 1862.
/ The National war committee of the
Citizens of New York addressed an
urgent memorial to congress asking
for the passage of a law authorizing
the granting of commissions to priv
ate armed vessels for the capture of
the Alabama and other Confederate
cruisers that were hurting business.
The memorial also suggested re-
ward to be paid for the capture or
destruction of the privateers.
The advance of General Banks ex-
petition to the Red river country of
Arkansas arrived at New Orleans,
having come from New York by boat.
General Hovey's expedition returned
to Helena, Ark.