Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1912-08-16
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CIVIL WAR
FIFTY YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
IL, 1852.

AUGUST ~, 1862.
General Burnside, commanding the
Ninth army corps of the Army of the
Potomac. issued an order informing
bis army that the seizure of the prop
ertv of Confederates, under the re-
/ centzcrder of President Lincoln, based
nm an act of congress, would not be
tolerated unless made in the presence
and under authority of an officer.
The rrtze steamer Ladona, captured
while endeavoring to steal into the
Ogeechee river, Georgia. arrived at
4 Philadelphia.
Col. John H. Morgan, with his force
of Confederate irregulars, captured
GaIlatin, Tennessee, together with a
Union force under Colonel Boone, a
large quantity Of supplies, railway
train laden with grain, number of
4 government horses, etc. In the eve
ming Colonel Miller, arriving from
Nashville with reinforcements for the
/ Union troops, fell upon Morgan's rear
. guard. the main body of his force hav-
. ing WlluuIdWu, hillluS GAA oAO WOOAO-
ing a number of the partisans.
The Confederate congress voted
their thanks to Gen. Robert E. Lee
and the officers and men in his COM
mand for their late brilliant victory,
eliminating in the signal defeat of
the combined forces of the enemy in
the two great battles of Manassas"
Stonewall Jackson, Confederate gen.
eral. detaching his army from General
Lees, began raid down the Shenan-
doah valley.
August 13, 1862.
A collision occurred off Ragged
Point, on the Potomac, between the
steamers Peabody and West Point, in
which rs lives were lost. The West
Point was en- route to Washington
with convalescents from the army of
General Burnside.
Colonel Guitar with Union force
overlook the Confederate partisans
under Colonel Poindexter at Yellow
Creek, Clinton county, Missouri, and
defeated them.
The French bark Harriet Rail- was
released by the authorities of the
United States.
A battle was fought at Clarendon,
Union division and a part of Hind
mans Confederate force, which had
been sent forward from Little Rock
to check the advance of the nationals.
The conflict was savage through sew
eral hours. Hindman eventually with
drew, losing 700 prisoners.
An expedition consisting of the
Twenty-fourth Massachusetts and
marine battery, under command of
General Stevenson, embarking on
board the gunboats Wilson and Ellis
at Newbern, North Carolina, proceed
ed TO Swansboro and destroyed the
Confederate salt works at that place.
General Pope, at Cedar Mountain,
Virginia, telegraphed General Halleck,
: IN Washington, at 1880 in the morn
Ning: The enemy has retreated under
cover of the night. His rear is now
crossing the Rapidan, toward Orange
Court House. Our cavalry and artil-
lery are in pursuit"
August a., 1862.
i. A. Mahoney, editor of the Du-
buque Herald, was arrested by tho
United States marshal, charged with
encouraging enlistments.
body Of national troops out look
ing for cotton near Helena, Ark, en-
countered a force of Confederate ir-
regulars, and came off narrowly.
General Pope, commanding the
Union army of Virginia, issued an or
per commanding officers and soldiers
" the army to abstain from entering
ne houses, molesting the persons or
u4S'urolng the property of citizens, I'M
oer pain of speedy and severe punish
hent. Whatever provisions, forage or
Clher articles might be required for
he subsistence or use of the troops
YOU'D be taken possession of, but only
7! an officer with authority.
The Confederate General Breckin-
loge addressed a note to Col. H. e.
alne, commanding United States
orces at Baton Rouge, La, complain
ng mat the Union troops in that vi
unity had wantonly burned many pri-
ate houses; had taken or destroyed
Iuch private property without COM
ensauon; had seized and carried
wv! INTO Imprisonment, upon false
~ frivolous pretexts, many unarmed
liZehs' and that negro slaves were
ENG armed and organized to be en-
io!eo against them. He informed
IN mat such acts were regarded as
violation Of the usages of civilized
aliare' and that, in the future, upon
~ departure from those usages, The
ouia raise the black flag, and neither
I'VE nor ask for quarter"
Eusust is, 1862.
squad of cavalry from Washing
~ u o. Went into st. Mary's county,
,u,' and encountered near Leonards-
WI capt William Clark of the Thir-'
seventh VIRGINIA rcCinaonf with