The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-02-17
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The congress of the United States
passed an act authorizing the Presi-,,
dent to take possession of the tele-
States, whenever in his judgment the
public safety required it, declaring
that any attempt to resist the unre-
strained use by government of such
property, when too powerful to be sup
pressed by ordinary means, should be
punishable by death, as a military Of
fence, directing the president to ap-
point three commissioners to assess
and determine the damages suffered
by railroad or telegraph companies in
consequence of such seizures, and
placing the transportation of troops,
munitions of war, etc., under the i'm
mediate control of the secretary Of
war or his agents. 1t was finally pro-
vided that the act should not be in
force any longer than was necessary
for the suppression of the rebellion.
| VIM. H. Seward, secretary of state
for the United States, directed the re-
lease from Fort Lafayette of all pris-
oners taken on board vessels that had
violated the blackade.
Four men who were engaged in
constructing telegraph line through
Kentucky for the use of the national
forces were captured by band of
| Confederates and taken south. =
February I, 1862.
Mr.. Dole, commissioner of Indian
affairs for the Federal government,
met the chiefs of several tribes in
conference at Leavenworth, Kan.
The chiefs most prominent at the in
terview were Opothleoholo of the
Creeks, Alektustenuck of the Semi
noles and several representatives of
the Iowa tribes. Mr.. Dole assured the
Indians that the government had no
intention of calling on them for help
in fighting the southern states, but
told them that an expedition would
be sent into the Indian Territory to
punish certain tribes that had proved
false to their allegiance and, insti-
gated by southerners, had attacked
loyal Indians and driven them from
their homes.
The name of Wolfe county, Ken
lucky, was changed to Zollicoffer by
the provisional government that had
been set up in the state by citizens Of
southern sympathies. "The county Of
Zollicoffer will perpetuate on the rec
ords of Kentucky the name of one
whose fame belongs to struggling
freedom everywhere" said the Louis
ville-Nashville Courier.
A company of the Second cavalry,
Forty-first Indiana volunteers, COM
manded by Capt J. B. Presdee, was
involved in skirmish with a band
of Confederates near Bowling Green,
on the Green river, Kentucky. The
fight was drawn. The Confederates
were reported to have lost two killed
and three wounded.
| The value of the Confederate dollar
had fallen to sixty cents on the first
of February.
February 2, 1862.
Lieutenant Colonel Whites Confed-
crate cavalry encountered a Union
force of cavalry, estimated at three
hundred strong, on the mountains in
Morgan county, Tennessee. Colonel
White charged the enemy at once.
Captain Duncan, in command of the
Federal cavalry, held them to stiff
defense, rallying them twice from a
condition of great Generalization. The
issue of the conflict was still in doubt
when a lad ]. Roberts, fifteen years
old, brought down the Union officer
with bullet through the head. The
loss of their leader threw the Fed
eralists into hopeless confusion, and
they fed, leaving seven of their num-
Der dead on the field.
The bark Trinity left Boston, Mass,
for Fortress Monroe, Va, with three
hundred and eighty-six rank and file
and eleven officers of the Confederate
army, who had been made prisoners
in the war in the south and confined
in Fort Warren, Boston harbor. The
men were to be exchanged for an
equal number of Union soldiers in the
hands of the Confederates.
A formidable land and naval expedi-
ton under General Grant and Com
mander Foote left Cairo, Ill. The
force consisted of seven gunboats and
$4,000 men on transports. The objec-
tive OF the expedition was Fort Henry,
Tenn.
February 8, 1862.
In accordance with the decision Of
the administration In Washington, the
privateersmen who had been confined
in the city prison were released and
confined as political prisoners in Fort
La Fayette. The persons captured on
the British ship NJ. s. Perry, who had