Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-08-16

federate partisans under Colonel
Binield. resulting in the rout Of the
Confederates, who lost twenty Tuen
killed and nine taken prisoners
General Pope was confronted near
the Rapidan by General Lee, and fell
back across the Rappahannock.
August IS, 1862.
The U. S. gunboat Pocahontas, one
of the blockading squadron off Charles
ton, s. c., proceeding up the Black
river on reconnaissance in search of a
Confederate steamer reported in the
river. found that the Confederates had
sunk the steamer. On her return "trip
the Pocahontas was fired into by
bands of irregulars, who fringed the
river for twenty miles. Owing to the
range no injury was done the vessel.
although some men were wounded.
A body of Confederate partisans I'm.
der Col. A. r. Johnson captured Hop
kinsville, Ky. A quantity of ammuni-
ton and a number of rifles fell into
their hands. Colonel johnson gave
notice that he had committed the seiz-
ure as Confederate soldier, and that
if any southern man or his property
should be molested in consequence he
would retaliate on the Uni0n men Of
the place.
A company of Confederate cavalry,
making rapid movement across the
Rapidan river near Crooked Run, Va,
captured Lieutenant Black and five
men of the national array.
An expedition consisting of num-
Der Of Union gunboats, rams and
transports left Helena, Ark, and pro-
ceeded down the Mississippi.
The Richmond Examiner, editorially
discussing the approaching session of
the Confederate congress, said: ''It
will be for congress to repair, as it
best can, the mischief done the public
service by a weak and impracticable
executive; to look at the reduction Of
our forces in the field; the decay of
military discipline; the decentralization
Of our armies; and the jeopardy to
which our cause has been put by a
long course of trif1ing conduct, child
ish pride of opinion, unworthy obsti-
macy, official obtuseness, conceit, def
ance of public opinion, imperiousness
and despotic affectation on the part
Of those intrusted with the execution
of the war"
The evacuation by the Union army
of Harrisons Landing, on the James
river, where it had taken refuge after
the disasters of the Peninsula cam
paign, was completed.
A national force was badly defeated
by partisans near Lone Jack, Mo.
August II, 1862.
The office Of the Constitutional
Gazetteer, a newspaper published at
Marysville, Kan, was demolished by a
party of National soldiers belonging
to Captain Bowen's company.
Archbishop Hughes delivered an i'm
portant patriotic sermon in st. Pat
rick's cathedral, New York city. After
reciting his course of action in Eu-
rope, he called upon the whole north
to come out in its strength, for
volunteering to continue and for a
draft to be made" He said that If
100000 men were not enough, to call
out another 100000. 'The people
should insist on being drafted, and so
bring this unnatural strife to a close"
by strength of might alone.
The Sioux war broke out in Mime
sofa: The Sioux Indians, angered by
a breach of promise on the part of the
United States government, excited by
reports of war from the south, and
made frantic by their medicine men,
massacred 500 people at Acton, Meeker
county.
August 18, 1862.
The war department of the United
States took steps to check the politi-
cal appointment of generals in the
army in the following order: Here
after no appointments of major gen.
erals or brigadiers will be given ex-
cept to officers Of the regular army,
for meritorious and distinguished serv-
ices during the war, or to volunteer
officer, who, by some successful
achievement in the field shall have