Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-11

Henry F'alrDacK OF colonel BlSSellS
engineering regiment; Albert Bacon
of the Fourteenth Illinois, and Robert
Timmins of the Thirty-fifth Indiana,
who were captured at the battles of
Shiloh and Corinth, reached the gun
boat Western World, blockading Eo-
doy Sound, Georgia, after having es-
capped from the Confederate prison at
Macon, Ca They had been travelling
for seventeen nights, enduring many
hardships.
October II, 1862.
A body of Texas Rangers under Col
onel Giddings was defeated in a
brisk fight near Helena, Ark, by de-
tachment of the Fourth Iowa cavalry.
Colonel Giddings was taken prisoner.
The ship Manchester, from New
York to Liverpool, laden with grain
and cotton, was captured on the high
seas by the Confederate priVateer
Alabama, and burned.
A force of three hundred Union
cavalry, under Col. McReynolds, de-
scended OH the Confederate Colonel
Imboden's camp, near Cacapon Bridge,
about II miles from Winchester, Va,
and captured one major, one lieuten-
ant, twenty-five privates, thirty-three
mules, eight horses, one thousand
blankets, two brass cannon, five
wagons, and Colonel Imboden's pri-
vate papers.
The Confederate gunboats Palmetto
State, built at Charlestown through
the efforts of the women of South
Carolina, was formally named and
dedicated.
The schooner Elmira Cornelius was
captured by the u. S. S. S. Restless
while trying to run the blockade at
Bulls Bay, South Carolina. Her cap
tain ran her in shore, but she was
got off.
Rumors of peace began to be moot
ed. The Richmond Enquirer of date
said: There are prospects of an
early peace, which conclusion is
founded on the results of the battles
in Virginia and Maryland, and the
campaign now progressing. The bat
tie of Antietam was, to the Federal
forces, the most terrible defeat of the
war"
Fifty Confederate wagons loaded
with ammunition were captured in
Kentucky by Union cavalry.
A train of wagons, two pieces of ar.
tillery, and $50 Confederates, were
taken by a large Union force near
Versailles, Kentucky
The British schooner Revere, car
rying military stores, was captured off
Cape Fear, N. G.
October IL, 1862.
The Confederate general, J. E. B.
Stuart's cavalry, which had passed
around the Union army under Gen
eral Mcclellan, made good it's escape
across the Potomac at Whites Ford,
near the mouth of the Monocacy river.
During the day General Pleasanton,
with 500 cavalry, harassed the Con-
federate rear, and engaged them in a
sharp skirmish, but with no material
loss on either side.
Considerable excitement was Gre
ated in Gainesville, Tex, by the dis
covery of secret organization Of
Unionists, whose object was said to
be to kill the secessionists, after
which they were to remove to Mis-
souri,, taking with them whatever
property they could carry, and burn
the remainder. The militia was called
out, and arrested 20 persons supposed
to belong to the organization, two of
whom were Immediately hanged.
October 10, 1862.
A successful reconnaissance was
made by a force of Union troops I'M
der General Stahel, in the vicinity of
Paris and Leesburg, Va. More than
a hundred prisoners We're taken and
paroled, important information was
obtained, and the command returned
to headquarters at Centerville with
out losing a man.
The Sixth Missouri returned to
camp at Sedalia, Mo-, after success
full raid on several bands of parti-
sans who had been making trouble in
the vicinity. The partisans were tenn
porarily dispersed.
The expedition to Jacksonville, Fla,
returned to Hilton Head, S. c., and
announced the complete success of
the adventure. The Confederate forti-
fication at st. Johns bluff was cap
tured, and a Confederate steamer.
The Confederate Congress passed
an act authorizing President Davis to
suspend the writ of habeas corpus in
certain cases.
The Confederate house passed bill
making the penalty death for any
Union soldier who might have in his
possession, or endeavor to pass, coun-
terfeit Confederate currency.
The ship Tonawanda of Philadel-
phia from Liverpool, captured by the
Confederate privateer steamer Ala
bama on the ninth, was released and
allowed to proceed on her way. there
being no nanner of providing for the
considerable number of women and
children captured on board of her.
Copyright, 1912. by W. G.. Chapman)
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