The Colorado statesman., 1912-01-27
737e
CIVIL WAR
FIFTY YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
January Fl, 1862.

January Fl, 1862.
The Union reconnaissance In force
By General McClernand in the direc-
ton of Columbus. Kentucky, return
ed to Cairo. The expedition, consist
ing Of nearly five thousand men, left
Cairo ten days ago and penetrated to
a point within mile and half of
the Confederate defenses about Co
lumbus. The Confederates, seeing the
enemy in such force, expected and
prepared for an attack. The Union
force withdrew, after ascertaining the
position, extent and strength of the
Confederate defenses. The expedition
resulted in the acquisition of valua-
BILE information concerning roads that
were not marked on the maps in the
possession of the Federal officers, as
well as a knowledge of the Confeder-
ate position.
Adjutant-General Harding reported
the number Of citizens of Missouri
that had enlisted in the Union army
for three years at 1882.
Lieutenant Ammen, commanding
the United States gunboat Seneca, re-
ported to Commodore Dupont that
the negroes in the neighborhood of
Port Royal, South Carolina, which
was in the hands of the Federal army
and navy, were anxious to be fur
nished with guns.
January %, 1862.
The Memphis Argus published the
following: I'VE are every day called
upon to publish the farcical freaks of
the Federal legislation which trans
pire in the Lincoln congress, as a part
of the extraordinary history of the
times. We notice
bill which one Mr.. Hutchins, of
Ohio, has announced he will soon in
troduce into the lower house of that
august body. The measure very
humanely proposes that the enlight-
ened and Christian north shall as
sumo complete control over the igno-
rant and barbarous south, reducing all
her states to the condition of terri
torial or provincial government, and
then Immediately abolish slavery
within their limits. But, hap
PLY for the south, the issue is not
now one of legislation, but of the
sword, not of the ballot, but of the
bayonet."
Marble Nash Taylor, loyal provis-
ional governor of North Carolina,
made the arrival of General Burnside
an occasion to issue a proclamation
from Hatteras, North Carolina, con-
graduating the people of the state on
their deliverance from thraldom by
the 'invincible arms of the republic"
calling upon them to cooperate with
the army in restoring their rights, so
recently lost, and appointing the 22d
of February as the day on which the
ordinances of the provisional conven-
tion of November 1S should be sub
mitted to the people for ratification.
He also called ,for an election of
United States congressman for the
same day, to fill the vacancies then
existing in the representation of
North Carolina in that body.
January %, 1862.
Major-General Halleck, command
ing the department of the Missouri,
threw into Jail citizens of st. Louis
who endeavored, by legal process, to
escape his general order No. "a under
which sympathiZers of the south were
obliged TO pay assessments for the
benefit of the southwestern fugitives.
Samuel Engler prominent merchant,
refusing to pay his assessment suf-
fefed a seizure of his property to the
extent of his assessment and pen
atty of twenty-five per cent added.
Upon an attempt to recover the prop
erty by replevin, both he and his at
torney were seized and thrown into
the military prison, and subsequently
expelled the Union lines, with orders
not to return without special permis-
sion. General Halleck justified his
action under the plea of martial law.
A force of one hundred Confederate
cavalry entered Blandville, Kentucky,
and carried off the books and records
of the county. The captain of the
band assured the citizens that any
who had suffered at the hands of the
Union soldiers or who should be made
to suffer, would be reimbursed out of
leyies on Union sympathizers.
The Confederate steamer Calhoun
was captured off the southwest pass of
the Mississippi river by one of the
blockading squadron. The Confeder-
ates deserted the vessel after firing
her, but the fire was extinguished by
the Union sailors and the steamer
taken off.
A stone fleet was sunk by the Fed
erals in the channels of Charlestown
harbor to further block the entrances
to the port.
January "a, 1862.
A large meeting in honor of the late
General Zollicoffer, killed in the bat
tie at Mill Springs, KY, on January
nune hn1d in the Cha rlnc hn-