Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1912-09-27
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CIVIL WAR
FIFTY YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
september %, 1862.

September %, 1862.
Three Hundred Sioux Indians. under
Little Crow, We're defeated in an at
tack on Colonel Sibley's command at
Yellow Medicine, MINI. The battle
lasted two hours, with heavy loss to
the sayages.
The city hall at New Orleans was
crowded with citizens anxious to take
the oath of allegiance to the United
States, the 23d being the last day per-
mitted by the order Of General Butler.
The schooner Nellie was captured
by the United States steamer Ala
bama,
Sutton, Va, and neighborhood was
the scene of brisk fighting throughout
the day. In the morning an attacking
force of Confederates were defeated
and driven ten miles. Reinforced, it
made a second attack on the National
force and sent them to fight, driving
them eventually from their original
post at Sutton.
Four hundred English rifles, marked
London, 1852" and an English can
non were seized by Colonel Switzer,
who crossed from Maryland into Vir-
ginia at Reynolds Ford with his
Union regiment and a battery Of ar
tillery. The Confederate pickets
guarding the military stores retired
without firing a shot, being heavily
outnumbered.
Major General Wright, in a special
order issued at Cincinnati, O., relin-
pushed the severity Of his martial
control over the district lately threat
ened with invasion by the advance of
Gen. e. Kirby Smith with Confeder-
ate force, permitting the resumption
of business without restriction, waiv-
ing the demand for passes to citizens,
and suspending the daily drills.
September "a, 1862.
President Lincoln issued procla-
nation ordering that any person who
discouraged enlistment, or resisted
drafts, or was guilty of any disloyal
practice affording aid or comfort to
those in rebellion against the United
and trial by court martial; and sus-
pending the right Of habeas corpus in
such cases.
Governor Curtin of Pennsylvania
dismissed the militia that had orga-
nized for the defence of the state dur
ing Lees advance into Maryland
The plant of the American Volun-
teer, a paper published in Carlisle.
Fa., was destroyed by a MOB because
of an editorial that reflected on Presi-
dent Lincoln and the administration.
A convention of governors, meeting
at Altoona, Pa, endorsed the Emanci-
patton Proclamation, pledged con-
tinued support to President Lincoln,
and suggested the formation of re-
serve army of 100000 men.
General Beauregard assumed COM
mand of the department of South Car
DINA and Georgia.
General Butler, commanding the
Union occupation at New Orleans, is
sued an order directing that all for
mer citizens of the United States that
had refused to take the oath of al
lG2la0C0, OF WHO u0lQ Vi III OlOauSN
any allegiance to the Confederate
states, should report themselves on or
before the first of October to the near
est provost marshal, with descrlp-
tive list of all their property, real.
personal, and mixed. made out ana
signed by themselves. with as much
particularly as for taxation.
The Confederate senate adopted
seal for the Confederate States OF
America.
September IS, 1852.
The convention of governors adj
iourned from Altoona to meet IN
Washington. :,
Sabine Pas, Texas, was attacked
and captured by the United States
steamer Kensington, under the COM
mand of Acting Master Croker, as
sisted by the mortar boat Henry James
and blockading schooner Rachel Sea-
men.
Tudee n w. Thomas, in the supe-