Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-01


address to the soldiers of his COM
mand as follows:
Soldiers of Shiloh and Elkhorn;
| We are about to meet once more in
the shock of battle the invaders of our
soil, the despoilers of our homes, the
disturbers of our family ties, face to
face, hand to hand. We are to decide
whether we are to be freemen or vile
slaves of those who are free only in
name, and who but yesterday were
vanquished, though in largely superior
numbers, on the ever memorable field
of Shiloh. Let the impending battle
decide our fate, and add a more
| illustrious page to the history of our
revolution-one to which our children
will point with noble pride, saying:
Our fathers were at the battle OF
! Corinth.' Soldiers, can the re-
suit be doubtful. Shall we not drive
back into Tennessee the presumptu'
Gus mercenaries collected for our sub
jugation? One more manly effort, and,
trusting in God and the right of our
cause, we shall gain back more than
we have lately lost Let the sound of
our victorious guns be re-echoed by
those of the Army of Virginia on the
historic battlefield at Yorktown
May 8, 1862.
The Nashville Union contained a
call, signed by $50 prominent citizens,
assigning May for a mass meeting
to take measures for restoring the re-
| lations between Tennessee and the
United States of America.
General Paine's division of General
Popes Union force drove smaller
force Of Confederates from Farming
ton, Miss.
| Capt William Wilson of the British
ship Emily ST. Pierre was given an
ovation in Liverpool by merchants
and mercantile marines officers for
having recaptured his vessel from the
hands of United States naval forces,
by whom it had been captured off
Charlestown, S. G.
The Confederate forces evacuated
Yorktown during the night, leaving
their heavy ordnance and some equip
age, and withdrew up the peninsula
on the Williamsburg road.
The u. S. S. S. Santiago de Cuba
| brought into the port of New York
the rebel Confederate steamer Ella
Marley, captured on the way from
Nassau to Charlestown, S. c., loaded
with arms.
Jefferson Davis, president of the
Confederate States of America, pro-
claimed martial law over the counties
of Lee, Wise, Buchanan, Mcdowell and
Wyoming. Va.
May 4, 1862.
General Mcclellan reported to the
war office as follows: Our cavalry
and horse artillery came up with the
enemy's rear-guard in their intrench-
ments about two miles this side of
Williamsburgh. A brisk fight ensued
Just as my aid left General Smiths
division of infantry arrived on the
ground, and presume he carried the
works, although l have not yet heard.
"The enemy's rear is strong, but
have force enough up there to answer
all purposes.
eve have thus far seventy-o one guns,
large amounts Of tents, ammunition,
etc. All along the lines their works
prove to have been most formidable,
and I am now fully satisfied of the
correctness of the course I have pur-
sued.
''The success is brilliant, and you
may rest assured that its effects will
be of the greatest Importance. There
shall be no delay in following up the
enemy"
The English steamer Circassian was
captured by the United States gunboat
Somerset with a cargo of munitions of
war, valued at half million dollars.
Rumors of foreign Intervention in
American affairs still continued. The
Paris correspondent of the London
Daily News stated that the French
and English ministers at Washington
had received identical instructions to
attempt a moral intervention, exclu-
sive of the idea of force.
A pontoon bridge was thrown across
the Rappahannock river at Fredericks-
burg and General Mcdowell and staff
of the Union army crossed over and
occupied Fredericksburg, notifying the
citizens to that effect.
The Confederate ram Mallory and
the Federal gunboat Cincinnati were
both sunk in a naval duel near Mem
phis.
May 5, 1862.
H. NJ. Rector, governor of Arkansas,
called upon the citizens of that state
to take arms and drive out the
/ northern INVADER
The Confederate Gen. J. E. Johns
ton, commanding the rear of the Con-
federate army in its retrograde move
ment from Yorktown, made a stand at
| Wiliamsburgh and held General Nc
/ Clellan's entire army in check while
j the Confederate army continued it's
march toward Richmond. General
Johnston withdrew at nightfall, hav-
ing accomplished his purpose.
General Butler, in command at New
Orleans, promised the Louisiana plant
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