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 Masters of steam craft at New Or leans were prohibited from employing white hands in any capacity except ! as captains. mates. clerks. engineers, | carpenters and pilots.
 General Banks was put in command of the Union forces in western Vir- ginia. designated as the Army of the Shenandoah.
 Parson Brownlow was given a pub lie reception in Cincinnati. O.
 A canal 12 miles long was complet- ed to carry the Union gunboats past l Island No 10.
 April 5, 1862.
 The United States gunboat Caron- delet arrived at one o'clock in the morning at New Madrid Mo, having passed the Confederate batteries and Notifications on Island No. 10 and the Tennessee shore. She left the Union fleet the preceding evening un- der cover Of thunderstorm and was not discovered until the flame from her smoke stack revealed her pres
 
 ed heavy fire. but in the excitement and darkness the practice was poor and the gunboat passed through safely.
 After two-day's advance. the DOT ton Of the Army Of the Potomac that had been concentrated at Old Point, Va. took position in front of the Con- to There was heavy fire from the guns of the two forces throughout the day. Leaving their former position the day before, the Federals advanced as far as Big Bethel without being opposed. General Morrill, was in command of the right and General Porter con- manded the left. Two companies of the Third Pennsylvania cavalry and portion of Berdan's sharpshooters act ed as skirmishers. At Big Bethel the troops were delayed fer two hours re- constructing a bridge that had been destroyed, under fire of the outer pickets of the Confederates Retreat ing before the advance of the skirm- ishers to Towards s creek, the Con- federates made stand in some aban- doned earthworks. The Third Rhode Island battery dislodged them. The main body of the advance rested at Towards creek until the following day, while General Morrill, pushed on three miles to Bueklesville, within six miles of Yorktown. At ten on the morning of the 5th the army was in front of Yorktown. An artillery duel was continued until dark, without i'm portant effect on either side. The Nationals lost six killed and 1S wounded
 April 6, 1862.
 The Confederate army under Gen. Albert Sidney Johnson attacked the Union force under General Grant at Pittsburg Landing early in the morn ing, taking them by surprise. The Confederate assault, continuing in force, was successful throughout the morning, driving General Prentiss and General Sherman from their positions and rolling back the Union line for a distance of more than a mile toward the bluffs along the river As noon both armies were heavily engaged, but the Confederates still continued to hold the advantage. General Prentiss, with large part of his division, was surrounded and captured. At five o'clock the position of the Union army was critical. Gen. Lew Wallace, who had been ordered up from Crumps Landing. had taken the wrsng road and failed to appear. General Buell., with the army of Tennessee, was hur. rying forward, but had not arrived. The Union force made a last desper- ate resistance against a final assault by the Confederates, and held, helped greatly by the fire of the gunboat Ty- Ter, and the tardy arrival of Wallace. The troops under Buell. began to ap- pear on the opposite side of the river The Confederates drew off and biv- ouaced.
 The Union gunboat Cardondelet, which ran the batteries at Island No 10 on the night of the fourth. made a reconnaissance from New Madrid to Tiptonyille, Mo, in search of masked batteries. One was found and de- stroyed by force of soldiers brought along by the gunboat
 April 7, 1882.
 The Confederates renewed their at tack on Grants army at Pittsburg landing in the morning, hoping to com plete their half-fnished victory of the day before. But the arrival during the night of heavy endorsements of fresh troops under Buell. had so strengthened the Union forces that the southerners were repulsed and slowly driven down the field they had conquered the day before. Their en- thusiasm was deaated by the death of their general, Albert Sidney John- son, dearly loved by his men and con- tidingly depended upon. After des- perate struggle they were forced from