Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-25


district Of Columbia passed the House.
John ]. Crittenden made a powerful
protest against agitating the question
Of slavery.
Lieut.. ]. G. Baker, U. 8. N, on board
the Confederate prize schooner Bride
with an armed crew, captured the
Confederate sloop Wren at Sharks
Point. Virginia.
Huntsville, Alabama, an important
point of railroad communication be-
tween the southern states, was occu-
pied by the national forces under Gen.
eral Mitchell early in the morning. The
Union soldiers made a forced march
Of eighteen hours and surprised the
town.
The Confederate ironclad Merrimac
appeared in Hampton Roads again
with six smaller craft, returning to
shelter after brief maneuvers. which
resulted in the capture Of several
small Union craft.
There was sklrmishing In the vicin-
ity Of Yorktown during the day.
General Halleck arrived before Cor.
inth and superseded General Grant.
April IL, 1852.
The Nassau IN. Pr Guardian, for
tho encouragement OF "the trade that
has recently grown up, and which, II
fostered, may attain much wider pro-
portions" printed list Of vessels that
had arrived there after passing the
blockade of the southern ports. The
paper mentioned that the arrivals
from the Southern states were more
numerous than those from the North
ern states, where the trade was free
of blockade.
Negro soldiers who had served In
the Confederate garrison at Fort
Pulaski were declared confiscated, and
set free, in a feneral order issued by
General Hunter, u. 8. A.
Lowry's Point batteries on the Rap
pahannock, Virginia, were evacuated
by the Confederates.
General Mitchell, who had taken
Huntsville. Alabama, from the Confed-
crates the day before. seized and held
a hundred miles Of the Charlestown
& Memphis railroad.
Quantrell, the partisan fighter oper-
ating in Missouri, narrowly escaped
capture by a body Of Union soldiers
sent against him. The national troops
came up with his band near the Little
Blue river, killed FIVE, and took seven
teen. Quantrell. whose horse was
shot under him, escaped by swimming
across the river.
The Union picket line near Monte
rey. Virginia, was driven two miles by
a Confederate attack. Several COM
panies coming to the support Of the
pickets, lively sklrmish ensued, with
out permanent advantage to either
side.
The U. s: revenue steamer Reliance
arrived at Baltimore with four cap
tured Confederate sloops.
April 10, 1862.
A force Of four thousand National
soldiers left PIttsburg Landing in FIVE
transports and proceeded up the Ten
nessee river, accompanied by the gun
boats Tyler and Lexington. Landing
near Eastport, Miss, they proceeded
to Bear Creek bridge, where they de-
stroyed two railroad bridges on the
Mobile and Ohio. The bridges were
guarded by cavalry force Of 100 Con-
federates, who escaped.
The U. 8. s. s. Hercules, Lieut..
Thomas s. DUNCAN, captured the Con-
federate sloop Velma. A large mail,
part of which was addressed to per-
sons in Baltimore, was taken. 1t was
found that the Velma had cleared
from Pokomoke Sound. Va, on the
eastern side of the bay. in loyal ter
ritory, but that she had discharged
her cargo in the Wicomico river, with
in the boundaries Of belligerent Vir-
ginia. The master Of the vessel de-
clared himself a Confederate, assert
ing that "he would rot in prison" be-
fore he would take the oath OF allegi-
ance.
The Union gunboat flotilla, under
Commodore FoOte, on its way down
the Mississippi to Fort Pillow, was at
tackled by FIVE Confederate gunboats
at Eeedham's Cut-on, forty-five miles
below New Madrid. The Confederates
were compelled to retire before SUI
perior force.
Major General Halleck. in a dis
patch from Pittsburg Landing to Sec
rotary Stanton, recommended that Gen.
eral Sherman be promoted to a major
generalship for his services at the bat
tie on the 9Th and 7th Of April at
Pittsburg Landing. Halleck made no
mention of Grant in his message COM
mending Sherman, whom he credited
with having saved the fortunes OF the
day on the 9th, and contributed large
ly to the glorious victory Of the 18th"
April IA, 1862.
The Union Potomac fiotilla made
raid up the Rappahannock river as
far as Urbana, four miles below Fred
ericksburg. An attempt to land at
UrbanR was frustrated by Confed-