Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-19

This week fifty years ago the de- predations of the rebel privateer Ala bama upon the high seas were begin ming to attract the apprehension or the North. Among the first vessels re- ported burned by the Alabama was the bark Alert, New London vessel, Capt. Church. The Alert was valued at about S3o,000 with her outfit.
 The following are extracts from the Bulletin of 1862:
 The Alabama.
 The Alabama took her armament and crew on board near the Western ls- lands from a British bark. She Is 1900 ton burthen, built of wood, cop per bottom, 210 feet long, rather mar row, painted black outside, carries sS long thirty-two's on side, and IS pierced for two more amidship. She has one hundred pounded rified pivot gun forward of the bridge, and a six ty-eight pounder on the main deck with tracks for pivot bow gun and stern chesea- She Is bark rigged and represented to go IS knots under sail and Is under steam. She has all na- tional flags but usually sets St. Georges cross on approaching ves- sel. Her complement is 12O men.
 October 13, 1S62-The 24th regiment in camp at Middletown has between 700 and 800 men.
 With the land forces that went to St. Johns Fla, was the Seventh Con- necticut, Col. Hawley, and a section of tht Connecticut battery and com pany of cavalry.
 Grant Army Took 2,soo Prisoners.
 In the defeat of the rebels by Gen. | Grant at Corinth, the Union army tcuk 2,900 prisoners including 100 officers among the wounded. About 1000 rebels were killed and one loss was $50 killed, 1,200 wounded.
 In Buells defeat of Bragg at Louis vile, Ky, it is reported that the fed eral loss was 800 to 500 killed, 2,S00 wounded, and 440 prisoners. The con- federates lost 1900 killed, including one general, fourteen colonels and lieutenant colonels.
 The U. s. Sloop of War St. Louis has sailed westward from Lisbon in pursuit of the confederate privateer Alabama, which has been burning whalers off the Azores.
 Body of Preston Man Recovered. October IA, 1S62-The remains of Courtlandt Eldredge of Preston, Co, D, Eighth regiment. who was killed at the battle of Antietam, have been recovered by Henry A. Roath, who went to the battlefield for that pur- | pose.
 The wife of Edward F. Dow of South Coventry, drowned herself Sun day evening in a lake about mile from her house. She was recently de- ranged.
 800 More Connecticut Men.
 Eight hundred additional men are called for by Governor Buckingham te i'll up the quota of Connecticut. Un- | der this call the number assigned tc l Norwich will not probably be over half dozens We more than filled oui 1 quota some time ago, but there have been several rejections on account ol disability which. will have to be Iaadt l up. We can raise our half dozeI i without a draft.
 The fields over which the battle ol Antietam ragged are dotted in every direction with graves. These grave. are very shallow. Many unexplodeC shells have also buried themselves be. heath the surface and if these should come in contact with the blow coulter they would certainly explode, ant render blowing very unsafe work oi such soil. l October 15, 1S62-It is officially an nounced that the draft in Massachu
 setts will take place today. The mum