The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1912-03-01
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FlVII. WAR
rFTY YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
A Is, 1862.


4 troops under General Mel
ga. The government offices
~ removed from Nashville to
n some days before the occu-
end the Confederate forces
..eeptly withdrawn. A panic
among the citizens at news of
-Droach of the Union army, and
4 them fed with the southern
Federal government took dras-
i; 10 prevent leakage of mill
AVS from the wires. BY order
Washington, the telegraph lines
astes were taken possession OF
\ war department. News dis
y we're to be vigorously CEN
and any newspaper or period
hat should publish news that
ut been authorized for publica-
N the department was ordered
vforth to be denied the priv
Of the wires.
Sterling Price made a report
Er C. F. Jackson of Missouri OF
streat of his Confederate force
~ Missouri. He stated that, hav-
coupled Springfield for the pur-
Of being within reach of sup
be had been attacked by an
Ehelsling force of Federals and
deemed 1t expedient to retreat.
four days march he reached
Hollows. Ark. The report was
at camp on Cove Creek, Ark.
|sy 26, 1862.
Ferdy Johnson, member of the
land house of delegates from
hore county, introduced into the
resolutions declaring the 10y
- Of the state to the Union. The
ttion was provoked by an as
ka attributed to President Jeff
that Maryland, already united
BY hallowed memories and ma
interests, will, when able to
4 with justified voice, unite her
b to the south"
| q raid on Keittsville, Barry
d, Missouri, a body of Texas
Prs inflicted considerable dam
% Captain Montgomery's COM
|of Wright's battalion. captured
n horses and burned two
loads of suffers supplies.
aldent Lincoln approved the
Fender bill authorizing a loan
100000.
Union gunboat r. B. Forbes,
run aground on Nays Head,
was set atire and burned to
! its falling into the hands or
fnfederates.
betting of cotton and tobacco
Is was held in Richmond to
Ter the destruction OF the cotton
pbacco crops to prevent their
into the hands OF the Union
by ~, 1862.
|s Item: "Mr. Ericsson's IRON
steamer. the Monitor, went to
'om New York today for some
Nm destination. Mr.. Ericsson
q board, and desires to test the
srability of his ship by engag-
2 Strongest battery of the en-
fhich can be got at. The Mon
'rries only two eleveninch col
u.s. Lieutenant Worden, who
lnds the battery. Is an officer OF
experience and tried courage,
Z sailors and gunners are pick
/"
Hill and J. J. Pettigrew were
'rieadier generals by the Con-
Q senate at Richmond, Virginia.
was enthusiastically
that no peace proposition
be entertained excluding any
of the Confederate states, and
* that the war would be con-
until the national forces were
expelled from the Confeder-
evacuation of Columbus. Ken
" the Confederates. was COM
The position had been rem
by the successes of
ional forces at Forts Henry
nelson.
al law was proclaimed by Pres
avis over Norfolk and Ports
Virginia, and the writ OF hab-
brpus was suspended. The
batlon included an area OF ten
bout each town.
Davis Of Kentucky introduced
bcatlon bill in the United States
as a substitute for that intro
~ Mr.. Trumbull. The law pro-
10 apply the confiscated prop
! the benefit of those who had
loss by the war.
y %, 1862.
British ship Labuan, captured
United States sloop of war
(uth near Breca RIGA, at the
y the Rio Grande, arrived In
sk in charge of a prize crew.
lied cargo valued at $685.
large quantity of blankets
part of it. She was suspect
surpose to run the blockade.
onfederate steamer Nashville,