The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-05-09

the poor of the city.
Commodore Foote resigned COM
mand of the Union flotilla because OF
a, wound, and was succeeded by
Capt. Chas. H. Davis.
May 10, 1862.
White House, on the Pamunkey
river, In Virginia, was occupied by
the Union troops, who seized a guam
tity of wheat and corn stored there
by the Confederates.
The Confederate schooner Maria
Theresa was captured by the United
States gunboat Unadilla.
A plot contemplating the surrender
of Paducah, Tenn, to the Confederates
by southern sy~mpathizers OF the place
was discovered through the revela-
tions of n Of the conspirators.
New Kent Court House, Virginia,
was occupied by National troops I'm
der General Stoneman. The Confed-
crates, withdrawing, destroyed two
buildings containing qu~artermaster
and commissary stores.
Cumberland, Va, a hamlet on the
Pamunkey, changed hands, being
evacuated by the Confederates and
occupied by the National forces.
Capt. H. c. Davis, commanding the
Union gunboat feet in the operations
about Fort Pillow, defeated a t1otilla
Of Confederate gunboats in a severe
engagement In which two of the Con-
federate vessels were blown up and
one sunk.
General Wool received the surren-
der of Norfolk, Va, from the hands
OF a committee of citizens who came
out to meet him as he was marching
on the town from Fort Willoughby's
point.
Sporadic expressions of Union GEN.
timent were reported in the northern
papers from North Carolina.
May II, 1852.
The partisan fighter, Cleveland, who
had been making things lively in
northern Kansas, was captured by an
officer and ten men of the United
States regulars from Fort Leaven-
worth, and subsequently killed in an
attempt to make his escape.
Craney Island, Virginia, was aban-
doned by the C~onfederates, and the
United States flag was hoisted over
the dismantled works by Union sol.
diers.
A squad Of Morgan's cavalry cap
tured and burned a freight and pas
senger train rear Cave City, KY. The
train was believed by the Confeder-
ates to have been carrying some pris-
oners on their way to Federal prisons
in the north. A few National officers
and men were riding on the train
when it was captured.
The Merrimac was blown up by or
der of her commander off Craney
Island, to prevent her falling into the
hands of the Federal feet.
The Texans who marched into New
Mexico and were defeated by the
United States Regulars near Fort
Craig, we're reported from Albut
querque to have returned to Ell Pasc
on their complete retreat. The regi
ment of "Pike's Peakers" that had
come from Colorado on forced marches
and saved the victory were still neal
Fort Craig.
, The First Wisconsin cavalry, sent
from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to cleal
the vicinity from Confederates who
were %impressing the inhabitants and
: making off with cattle and horses, sur
prised and routed one band of the
enemy near Bloomfield. The people
were in a state of complete terror.
The United States gunboats Free
: born and Island Belle captured al
empty schooner and one laden will
: whisky in the Piankatank river, Vir
: ginia.
May ~, 1862.
President Lincoln issued a procla
nation removing the blockades from
New Orleans, Beaufort and Port Roya
to a degree that would enable all com
: merce to pass through excepting tina
involving C~onfederates.
Commander Palmer of the U. S. s
s. %Iroquois demanded the surrender o
. the city Of Natchez, Miss, to the nava
. forces of the United States. The de
mand was not acceded to.
= The United States senate passed tn
, Doolittle bill relating to the collection
of taxation in insurrectionary districts
During the debate on a motion to Fl,
. the time of adjournment Mr.. Wilson
q called Mr. Davis of Kentucky to orde
u for uttering reasonable sentiments
q After some explanation the point o
order was withdrawn.
A party under Lieutenant Fusser o
the Commodore Perry landed at Eli
abeth City, N. c., went three mile
into the country and recovered tn
White Point lighthouse apparatus, re
moved by the Confederates.
:. General Mcclellan reported from
9 Roper's Church, Va, as follows: "Com
d mander Rodgers writes me today tina
he went with the gunboats yesterda,
past Little Brandon. Everythin'
quiet and no signs of troops passin|
9 the river. He found two batteries Q
9 ten or twelve guns each on the soutl
side of the James river, n opposit
the mouth Of the Warwick and tn
other about southwest from Mulberr,
Point. i. He silenced n bal
b terry and passed the other"
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