The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-07-12
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CIVIL WAR
FIFTY YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK


until the tenth of the month for tax
ing their parole.
General Butler issued an order au
thorizing that several regiments Of
| United States volunteers might be or
ganized in Louisiana.
A reconnaissance by the First Maine
| cavalry was made as far as Waterloo
Va, on the Rappahannock river.
A band of partisans visited the
house of a Unionist named Pratt. In
Lewis county, Mo-, and killed him.
John Ross, principal chief of the
Cherokee Indians. addressed letter
! to Colonel Weer, commanding the
United States forces at Fort Leaven
worth, Kan, Informing him that on
the seventh day of October. 1851. the
| Cherokee Nation had entered into 6
treaty with the Confederate States oil
| America.
President Lincoln, in company with
General Mcclellan, reviewed the
troops of the defeated army of the I'o
tomac at Harrison's Landing, on the
James river, Va.
The governors of Wisconsin and
New Jersey issued proclamations
calling for troops under President Lin
coins CALL
The letters from General Mcclellan
to the War Department, concerning
his occupation of General Lees house
at White House, Va, were laid before
congress - Si9s@1
The removal of Secretary Stanton
from the War Department of the
United States was suggested Ia vari
GUS portions of the country.
July 9, 1852.
/ The National transport steamer
Canonicus was fired into by the Con
federates a few miles below Harri
sons Landing, on the James river.
In the New Hampshire Legislature
resolutions were adopted pledging the
state to furnish it's full quota OF
troops called for recently by President
Lincoln.
Public meetings were held in Eng
land, praying the government to use
Its influence to bring about recon
Citation between the Northern and
Southern States of America, as it was
from America that the only immediate
supply of cotton could be expected
and, if there should be need, asking
the English government not to hest
tate to recognize the independence OF
the Southern States.
A fight occurred near Tompkinsville
KY. between body of 1900 indie
pendent southerners.s under Morgan
and the Third Battalion of Pennsyl
vania cavalry, numbering about 25(
men, under command of Major Jordan
In which the nationals were routed
with loss of four men Shiiled, sis
wounded and nineteen taken pris
oners.
Hamilton. n c., was occupied by the
National forces under the command oil
Captain Hamill. of Hawkins New
York Zouaves. ~
July 10, 1862.
A meeting was held in Huttonsville
Randolph county, Va, at which the
following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That we, as citizens, are
willing to live under the Federal gov
eminent and its laws, and that we vii.
give any information to the Feueral
commanders in relation 20 the opera
lions of certain bands Of men known
as guerrillas or mountain rangers"
At New Orleans, John H. Larue
being by his own confession va
grant" was committed to the parish
| prison, and his wife, Anna Larue
street wearing Confederate flag upon
her person in order to incite riot,
was sent to Ship Island by the com
mand of General Butler.
The provost-marshal of Memphis
Tenn, issued an order requiring all
persons connected with the Confed
crate government or army to leave
the city within five days, with their
| families.
A company of independent fighters
ninety in number, engaged In drilling
in field between Gallatin and Harris
|
OF National troops.
John Morgan, the Confederate lead
er. issued a call upon the people OF
Kentucky to rise and arm, and drive
! the Hessian invaders from their soil .
| A fight took place two miles south
Of Scatterville, Ark, between a de
tachment of the First Wisconsin cav.
airy and a Confederate force under
| Captain Allen.
! General Saxton. sent into South
Carolina to organize employment for
the negroes liberated from their mas.
| tiers by the occupation of the National
troops, reported $4,000 acres of corn
and cotton under cultivation by them
in voluntary labor, and announced a
hope that the crops would become
sufficient to sustain the experiment.
July II, 1862.
skirmish took place near Will
iamsburg, Va.
Governor Yates of Illinois published
a letter to the president urging the
employment of all available means to
crush the rebellion.
At New Orleans all acts of sale by
auctioneers who had not taken the
oath of allegiance to the United States
were declared null and void by the
military commandant, General Shep-
ley.
A skirmish occurred near Pleasant
Hin, Mo-, between company Of state
militia and band of irregulars
A dispatch from General Mcclellan
at Harrison's Landing, on the James