The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-09-27
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CIVIL WAR
FIFTY YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
September %, 1862.

Three hundred Sioux Indians, under
Little Crow, were defeated in an at
tack on Colonel Sibleys command at
Yellow Medicine, MINI. The battle
lasted two hours, with heavy loss to
the savages.
The city hall at New Orleans was
crowded with citizens anxious to take
the oath of allegiance to the United
States, the 23d being the last day per-
mitted by the order of General Butler.
The schooner Nellie was captured
by the United States steamer Ala
bama
Sutton, Va, and neighborhood was
the scene of brisk fighting throughout
the day. In the morning an attacking
force of Confederates were defeated
and driven ten miles. Reinforced, 1t
made a second attack on the National
force and sent them to flight, driving
them eventually from their original
post at Sutton.
Four hundred English rifles, marked
London, 1862" and an English can
non were seized by Colonel Switzer,
who crossed from Maryland into Vir-
ginia at Reynolds Ford with his
Union regiment and a battery Of ar
tillery. The Confederate pickets
guarding the military stores retired
without firing a shot, being heavily
outnumbered.
Major General Wright, in a special
order issued at Cincinnati, o., relin-
quished the severity of his martial
control over the district lately threat
ened with invasion by the advance OF
Gen. E. Kirby Smith with a Confeder-
ate force, permitting the resumption
of business without restriction, waiv-
ing the demand for passes to citizens,
and suspending the daily drills
September "a, 1862.
President Lincoln issued a procla-
nation ordering that any person who
discouraged enlistment, or resisted
drafts, or was guilty of any disloyal
practice afYording aid or comfort to
those in rebellion against the United
States, should be subject to arrest
and trial by court martial; and sus-
such cases.
Governor Curtin of Pennsylvania
dismissed the militia that had orga-
nized for the defence of the state dur
ing Lees advance into Maryland.
The plant of the American Volun-
teer, paper published in Carlisle,
Pa, was destroyed by a mob because
~ to1 hot Cd
dent Lincoln and the administration.
A convention Of governors, meeting
at Altoona, Pa, endorsed the Emanci-
patton Proclamation, pledged con-
tinued support to President Lincoln,
and suggested the formation of a re-
serve army of 100000 men.
General Beauregard assumed COM
mand of the department Of South Car
olina and Georgia
General Butler, commanding the
Union occupation at New Orleans, is
sued a., order directing that all for
mer citizens of the United States that
had refused to take the oath of al
legiance, or who held or pretended
any allegiance to the Confederate
before the first of October to the near
est provost marshal, with descrip-
tive list of all their property, real,
personal, and mixed, made out and
signed by themselves, with as much
particularly as for taxation.
The Confederate senate adopted
seal for the Confederate States of
America.
September IS, 1862.
The convention of governors ad-
journed from Altoona to meet in
Washington.
Sabine Pas, Texas, was attacked
and captured by the United States
steamer Kensington, under the COM
mand of Acting Master Croker. as
sisted by the mortar boat Henry James
and blockading schooner Rachel Sea-
men.
Judge T. w. Thomas, in the supe-
rior court, Ebert county, Georgia, in
the case of James Lovingood, decided
that the Confederate CONSUMPTION act
was unconstitutional, and that, there
fore, the plaintiff was entitled to his
liberty.
September 26, 1862.
The Fifth and Sixth U. g. Regulars,
with a battery of horse artillery, NOV
ing from Bolivar Heights, Maryland,
on a reconnaissance, approached with
In a mile and a half of Charlestown,
where they encountered the Confed-
crates in force and retired, after Skin
mishes in which they recaptured some
horses taken by the enemy at the bat
tie of Bull Run. a.
A Union accommodating force under
Colonel Mclean drove a body of Con-
federate cavalry out of Warrentown
Junction, Virginia, and seized small
quantity Of stores and supplies.
In the Confederate house Of repre-
sentatives majority and minority re-
ports were submitted by the commit
tee on foreign affairs to whom had
been referred certain resolutions re-
lating to the policy of the war which
recommended to President DAVIS the
issuing of a proclamation offering rree
navigation of the Mississippi river and
its tributaries, and opening the mar
ket of the south to the inhabitants Of
the northwestern states. upon certain
terms and conditions.
The Confederate General Bragg is
sued a proclamation from Boards
town, Kentucky, addressed to the peo-
pie of the northwestern states, an