Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-03-08

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porn, Satellite, Island Belle. and Reso-
lutte engaged Confederate shore batter
| les In the Potomac from Liverpool
Point to Boyds Hole, including three
at Acquia creek. In the afternoon the
Island Belle and the Satellite had a
brush with two batteries at Wade's
Bay. where they fred on a trainload
of Confederate infantry.
Gov. Andrew Johnson left Washing
ton with his stan for Nashville. Tenn,
to assume duties in charge of the pro-
visional government
John Park, mayor of Memphis, in
| proclamation to the citizens of the
town, who had been in alarm lest their
town be destroyed by incendiaries,
treasured them with a threat that he
would hang to the first lamp post any
man who should be detected In the act
of firing building.
The Richmond Examiner called up
on all patriotic southerners to turn
over to the government their shot guns
for use against the northern invaders.
March g. 1862.
The battle of Pea Ridge. Arkansas.
was ended after three days fighting.
The Union forces under the command
OF Gen Curtis, eventually prevailed
over the Confederates, under Gen. Ben
| McCulloch. On March the Confed-
crates commenced the attack on Cur
tis's right wing, driving up detaeh-
ment of Gen Sigeps rear guard to
the main Union lines at Sugar Creek
! Hollow. The Confederates desisted
at four in the afternoon During the
night Gen. Curtis, discovering that
the Confederates were in position to
| attack by the flank and rear, changed
front. Throughout the second day the
fight ragged without advantage of i'm
| portance to either side, with the ex-
ception of the loss of Gen. McCulloch
| in the afternoon On the third morn
| ing Gen. Curtis made another change
of front. In the fighting which soon
developed Gen. Sigel dislodged the
Confederates from their hills at the
head of the Sugar Creek Gulch, and
the Confederates retreated.
Morgan's Confederate cavalry made
off with National foraging train in
charge of the Fourth Ohio Cavalry
near Nashville, Tennessee, but the
wagons were subsequently retaken by
the Fourth Cavalry and battery of
artillery.
The Confederate force that had
been stationed near Occoquan, Vir-
ginia, and which had given Federal
reconnaissance parties many a brush,
withdrew from the position and fell
back behind the Rappahannock.
March 9, 1862.
The entire north, and especially the
Atlantic sea board, greeted the day in
a panic of anxiety and despair Early
on the preceding afternoon a Confed-
crate ironclad Of new and monstrous
power had played such havoc with the
Unions feet in Hampton Roads, that
no one held any hope that she could
be stopped in her marine depreda.
tions by anything afioat or ashore.
| The craft, which was the old frigate
| Merrimac remodelled and sheathed
heavily in railroad iron, came steam
| ing out of Norfolk Harbor early in
| the afternoon and Numbered against
the Cumberland and Congress, United
| States sailing frigates. Without pay.
ing the least attention to the balls
that the Cumberland bounced against
her iron side the Merrimac steered
directly into her and opened her side
with blow amidships. Twice the
new monster rammed the helpless
| frigate. Having done for the Cum
| berland, the Merrimac started for the
| Congress, which discretely surrender
ed and was later fired The Mime
| sofa, endeavoring to get into the ac-
tion, went aground, and was only
saved by the fall of night. The Mer.
rimac waited about for the morrow.
At ten o'clock that night Ericsson's
Monitor arrived in Hampton Roads
awoke to renew the attack they found
the Yankee cheese box disputing the
way. The fight was long and furious.
| Neither vessel was able to do any
damage to the other. The Merrimac
retired at noon, and the nation at the
north breathed the first relief they
had had for nearly twenty-four hours.
March 10, 1862.
Lieut. j. d. Joak, of the First Iowa
cavalry, with thirty men, encountered
band of Confederates hidden in a
log house and was severely treated by
them before he succeeded in dislodg-
| ing them.
The u. s. Gunboat Whitehall, lying
in Hampton Roads. took fire at three
O'Clock in the morning and was total.
ly destroyed. The Whitehall had been
Fulton Ferry boat in New York.
The joint resolution suggested by
President Lincoln offering aid to any
state that should desire to accomplish
gradual liberation of slaves met with
disaster in the United States senate.
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