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rangers.
Gen. Butler announced that 1OO, 900
barrels OF beef and sugar, found in
New Orleans when occupied by the
Union force would be distributed to
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 corr stored there
by the Confederates.
The Confederate schooner Maria
Theresa was captured by the United
States gunboat Unadillar
A plot contemplatingT Fine surrender
OF Paducah, Tenn, to the Confederates
by southern sympathizers of the place
was discovered through the revela-
lions OF one OF the conspirators.
New Kent Court House, Virginia,
was occupied by National troops un-
der General Stoneman. The Confed.
crates, withdrawing, destroyed two
buildings containing quartermaster
and commissary stores.
Cumberland, Va, a hamlet on the
Pamunkey. changed hands, being
evacuated by the Confederates and
occupied by the Nationa; forces.
Capt. H. c. Davis, commanding the
Union gunboat fleet in the operations
about Fort Pillow, defeated a tiotilla
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 sen.
t!ment were reported in the northern
papers from North Carolina.
May II, 1862.
The partisan fighter, Cleveland. who
mad been making things lively in
northern Kansas, was captured by an
eflcer 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 Confederates, 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 near 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 We're riding on the train
when 1t was captured.
The Merrimac was blown up by or
der of her commander of Craney
Island, to prevent her falling into the
hands Of the Federal fleet.
The Texans who marched into New
Mexico and We're defeated by the
United States Regulars near Fort
Craig, We're reported from Albu.
querque to have returned to Ell Paso
on their complete retreat. The regi-
ment Of pixies 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 clear
the vicinity from C~onfederates who
were %impressing the inhabitants and
making off with cattle and horses, sur
prised and routed one band of the
enemy neal Bloomfield. The people
were in a state of complete terror.
The United States gunboats Free.
born and Island Belle captured an
empty schooner and n laden with
whisky in the Piankatank river, Vir.
ginia.
May II, 1862.
President Lincoln issued a procla.
nation removing the blockades from
New Orleans, Beaufort and Port Royal
to a degree that would enable all com.
merce to pass through excepting that
involving Confederates.
Commander Palmer of the U. S. s.
S. Iroquois demanded the surrender OF
the city Of Natchez, Miss, to the naval
forces Of the United States. The de-
mand was not acceded to.
The United States senate passed the
Doolittle bill relating to the collection
of taxation in insurrectionary districts.
During the debate on a motion to fix
called Mr.. Davis Of Kentucky to order
for uttering reasonable sentiments.