Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18
October IS, 1862.

October 13, 1862.
Confederate partisan fighters made
trouble for the National soldiers in
the vicinity of Helena, Arkansas. 4
picket of the Forty-third Indiana was
attacked and lost one man killed
and several captured. Across the Mis-
sissippi nine Union pickets were fired
upon and killed.
Ten of Porter's Confederate parti-
sans in Missouri were publicly shot.
They had been held as hostages for
the safe return of Andrew AIlsman,
an aged citizen of Palmyra, who had
been seized by the partisans.
Gen. John H. Morgan, the Confed-
crate leader whose raids toward
Union territory had more than once
kept Indiana and Ohio on the qui vive,
became active again, capturing a de-
tachment of the Fourth Ohio cavalry
near Lexington, Kentucky, entering
that town, Selling the provost guard,
and moving off in the direction of
Versailles. BY this operation Gen.
Morgan secured about three hundred
and fifty horses, and as many men,
together with their arms and accou-
trements He paroled his prisoners.
The British frigate Racer was per.
mitted by the Federal blockadina
squadron to enter the harbor of Char
lesion and bring off the British con.
sui.
A supply train Of seven wagons Ia
den with forage AID commissary stores
| for the Union force under Gen.
Stahel was captured by body of Con-
federate cavalry at Haymarket, Vi-
| ginia. and taken to WarrentOn. A
| lieutenant and twenty-six privates
were captured with the train.
October 10, 1862
The United States gunboat Ellis OF
| the squadron before Newbern, North
| Carolina, Lieutenant w. d. Cushing,
commander, captured the British
schooner Adelaide of Halifax, N. S.
in New Topsail Inlet, twelve miles
from Wilmington. The Adelaide was
attempting to run the blockade with q
cargo Of cotton and turpentine. The
vessel having been run aground by
her crew in their attempt to escape,
was burned as she lay.
The steamer Catahoula, plying be-
tween Helena, Arkansas, and Memphis,
Tennessee, was fired into by a band of
Confederate irregulars at point a
few miles above Memphis. No one
was killed, and only one man wound
ed
| A party of Morgan's Confederate
cavalry attacked and destroyed train
of fifty-two loaded wagons and thirty
one empties at Bardstown, Kentucky,
paroling the teamsters and driving off
the horses and mules.
| Lieutenant-C Colonel Sackett, com.
handing a. accommodating party sent
out to patrol the country between
| Centreville and Leesburg, Virginia,
made a report narrating the opera
tons of his expedition. During the
reconnaissance he captured and parol-
ed sixty or seventy soldiers.
A body of Confederate cavalry I'M
der Col. Jeffries entered and occu'
pied Commerce, Tennessee.
October 20, 1852.
A body of Union troops made a
successful stand against the Confed-
crate cavalry leader Forrest on the
| Cumberland river, a few miles from
Nashville, Tennessee. The Confeder-
| Lott q
some slight loss, including the capture
of colonel of cavalry.
| Five hundred cases of yellow fever
were reported in Wilmington, North
| Carolina. The mortality was great.
thirty or forty dying daily.
President Lincoln issued an order
establishing a provisional court for
the state of Louisiana, and appoint
ing Charles A. Peabody of New York
as provisional judge.
| Major Woodson, of the Tenth Cayal
ry, Missouri State militia, attacked a
band of Confederate irregulars on
Auxvois river and dispersed them,
capturing arms, blankets, ammuni
ton and horses.
| Lieutenant-Co James Stuart
with a portion of the Tenth Illinois
cavalry, attacked two hundred Confed-
crate cavalry near Marshfield, Mis-
souri,, completely routing and disor-
ganizing them, and capturing twenty
seven prisoners.
The plantations in the vicinity of
Presidents island, on the Mississippi.
were burned in retaliation for the re.
cent attack on the steamer Catahoula.
| Copyright, 1912, by w. G. Chapman.)