Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-04-19

| "oihiHS lOCAy, and kept MS guns SIS
lent. Same results at the batteries at
Hyam's Mills. Yorktown was shelled
by our gunboats and some of our
barges today, but without effect There
has been good deal of firing from
the Yorktown land batteries"
i Falmouth, opposite Fredericksburg.
Va, was occupied by the Union forces.
Their progress was valiantly disput-
ed by small force of Confederates
that made two distinct stands. and
burned the bridge across the Kappa
hammock to Fredericksburg when they
were finally driven beyond the river.
In the afternoon the town of Freder.
icksburg surrendered under a flag OF
/ truce to Lieut.. Wood. A meeting OF
the council declared sympathy with
the southern cause, and asserted that
surrender was made only under prom
Use that property would be protected.
Martial law was declared by the Con-
federate government in eastern Ten
nessee.
Advertisement having been made in
the public press of North Carolina that
| agents would be sent to borrow, pur-
chase, and, if necessary, impress all
arms in the hands of private citizens,
Gov. Henry T. Clark issued procla.
nation to the people In which he warn
ed them that such agents need not be
| obeyed, as they were acting against
the state constitution, but urging the
citizens to surrender such arms as
| they did not actually need.
The bombardment of Forts Jackson
and st. Phillips, on the Mississippi riv-
er, below New Orleans, was COM
menced by the Federal feet, under
Flag officer Farragut.
April 10, 1862.
The Union force under General
Reno, which left Newburn, North Car
DINA, two days before, defeated a regi-
ment of Georgia militia and a sup
porting force at Camden, near Eliza
| beth City. The National loss was IL
killed and 48 wounded. Colonel Haw-
| kins of the New York Zouaves was
| among the wounded.
General Banks, in Western Virginia,
reported sharp skirmish brought on
| by an attempt of the Confederates to
| burn two bridges that his men We're
guarding. He advised that he belev-
| ed that Jackson, who had entered the
Shenandoah Valley to threaten Wash.
| ington and prevent Mcdowell from
| joining Mcclellan, had left the valley
for Yorktown.
The Confederate schooner Wave
| was captured by the pilot boat G. w.
Blunt off the coast of South Carolina.
An expedition from the Union steam
boat Crusader, sent into Edisto Island
molesting the Federal cotton agent,
fell into a skirmish with two armed
bands. The Confederates gained the
advantage in each affair.
The Petersburgh, Virginia, Express
criticised the requisition Of slaves
| from Prince George and Surry coun-
ties for the purpose Of working on the
Williamsburg Notifications, on the
ground that taking the slaves away
from the fields threatened the crops
Of that section, which were needed for
the army.
The advance of General Banks
| Union forces, delayed by the Confed-
crates having burned many small
| bridges in their late retreat, entered
Sparta eight miles in front of New
Market, Virginia.
The U. S. S. S. Huron captured the
Confederate schooner Glide off
Charlestown. The Glide, loaded with
cotton and rice, was attempting to run
the blockade, bound for Nassau.
The city council of Fredericksburg
notified General Augur that the Con-
| federate forces had evacuated the
town, and no resistance would be
made to the entrance of Union troops.
April 20, 1862.
The withdrawal of the Confederate
| General Stonewall Jackson from the
| Shenandoah Valley was confirmed by
scouts and prisoners at General
Banks headquarters at New Market
| Virginia. 1t was reported that he
emerged through the mountains, by
way of Harrisonburg, Stannardsville,
Orange Court House and Gordonsville.
Jackson, and by his movement into the
valley had held suspended Union
forces three times as large as his own,
which the authorities at Washington,
in panic, had kept from joining Gen.
eral Mcclellan in the Peninsular expe
dition.
April 81, 1862.
The United States circuit court for
the middle district of Tennessee held
it's first session since the secession Of
the state, in the court room of the
capital at Nashville, Judge John Cat
ron presiding.
The provost marshars force at Rich
mond, Virginia, arrested three watch
making citizens of Richmond on
charges of disloyalty. The prisoners
were reported in the Richmond Dis
patch as defiant in their remarks,
saying they owed allegiance to the
United States alone, etc. All three
of them are Virginians by birth"
General Milroy, at the head of a
National accommodating force, over
| took the rear guard of the Confederate