Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-03-15
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CIVIL WAR
FIFTY YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
March II, 1862.

they left, and such stores as thew
could not take with them. Bridges
were burnt and railroad track torn
up but the huts where the troons
were CHARTERED were not demolished
PRESIDENT Jefferson Davis issued an
order suspending from their COM
mands Generals Floyd and Pillow I'M
I'll they should give a more satisfac.
tory account Of the loss of Forts Hem
ry and Donelson, with part of the
confederate garrison The order in
umated that the entire army might
nave been saved by evacuation, and
crluclsed the conduct of the two COM
handing officers in turning over their
commands to subordinates.
party of sailors from the u. s. 8.
>. Pocahontas, landing near Bruins
WICK, Ca, to obtain fresh beef, was
nred upon by body of Confederates
as they pulled back to the ship and
three of their number killed. They
were saved from heavier loss and pos
s1ble capture by the fire of the gun
boat Mohican.
General Grant was presented with
a beautiful sword by officers of his
command at Fort Henry. He had ap-
piled to General Halleck to be re-
l1eved from his command because of
sights and friction.
President Lincoln assumed actively
the functions of commander-in-ch chief
of the northern armies, issuing orders
for the formation of army corps in
the Army of the Potomac, and affect
ing the commands of several Union
generals.
Colonel Geary, accommodating beyond
Manassas, found the country devastat-
ed by the retreating Confederates. A
burial party visited Balls Bluff and
buried bodies of Union soldiers that
had lain exposed since the preceding
October.
March IL, 1862.
The First Nebraska and a part Of
Curtis's Iowa cavalry, under Col. W.
w. Lowe, attacked 900 Confederates
at Paris, Tenn, and defeated them,
occupying the town They subsequent
ly retreated, having learned that a
heavy force of Confederates was on
the way.
The Federal troops occupied Win
chester, Va, during the day. A strong
work a mile outside the town was
found to have been evacuated the
night before by General Jackson
There was no resistance, beyond two
slight skirmishes.
Sergeant Wade, with a squad OF
Carolina Light Dragons, in daring
raid up to the Union lines, captured
Lieutenant William T. Baum OF
Hooker's staff and a field telegrapher,
Mr.. Gregg. The capture was made
one mile from the Transport batteries
A petition from Kentucky asking
the senate to keep it's hands off eman-
cipation and attend to preserving the
Union was presented In the senate by
Mr.. Davis.
Berrvville. Va, was occupied by
the Union forces under General Cor
man. There was no resistance, but
the Federal column was annoyed py
Ashby's Confederate cavalry.
Jacksonville, Fla, was occupied oy
the national forces.
March 10, 1852.
Six companies of the Twenty-second
New York, in camp at Newport News,
made a reconnaissance along the VIII
liamsport road, near the James river.
At the junction of the Big Bethel road
crossing they encountered a large
company of Confederates. The Con-
federates withdrew after brler
en-
numbered.
A foraging party of Union cavalry
fell in with a party of Ashby's cavalry
near Winchester, Va, and was driven
hack into the Union lines. The for
age which they had gathered before
the appearance of the Confederate
cavalry was brought off safely.
General Banks, Federal, at Winches-
fer Va. issued orders prohibiting
depredations of all kinds, and deeply
regretting that officers, In some cases
from mistaken view, either tolerate
or encourage" such a course.
General HaLeck, at st. Louis, MO-,
Issued an order assuming command or
the department of the Mississippi,
which included the departments OF
Kansas and Missouri, the department
NJ Ohio. and all forces operating IN
the Mississippi basin.
A battalion of the Fifth Ohio cav
airy made a daring raid of 20 miles
into Confederate territory In Ten
nessee and destroyed bridge on the
Mobile and Ohio railroad 20 miles
from Jackson, Tenn. The cavalry
which was commanded by MAI
Charles s. Hayes. narrowly escaped
from a body of Confederate cavalry
that appeared after the bridge was de-
stroyed.
Lieutenant Colonel Bennett or the
Fifty-frst Pennsylvania, Lieutenant
Riley of the Forty-sixth New York,
and s. H. VIII, government agent and
cotton broker, were captured by Con
tederate pickets on Edisto island
south Carolina. and taken to Charles
town.
March IA, 1852.
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