Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-05-24


hour, with the loss to the attacking
column of four guns and one hundred
| prisoners. The Confederates burned
| Greenbrier Bridge in their retreat.
The town of Grand Gulf, Miss, was
shelled by the Union gunboats Rich
mond and Hartford. Considerable
| damage was done to the town, but no
person was injured. The attack on
| the defenseless post was made be-
cause two. United States transports
| loaded with soldiers had been fired
| upon from a battery four miles from
/! the town.
May "a, 1862.
A collision between a squad of Fed
| eral pickets and a body of Confed-
crate infantry at Craighead Point,
near Fort Pillow, drew the Federal
gunboat Benton into an engagement
with the forts batteries. The Ben
| ton steamed up to the rescue of the
| pickets, who were hard pressed, and
| was opened on by the forts guns. The
Benton retired upon the Union fleet.
Four companies of the FOuth Mich
| igan dealt heavy blow on the Louis
| lana Tigers in skirmish at Colo Har-
| bor While the main body of the
Michigan regiment was moving to the
skirmish small detachment gained
the rear of the Tigers and opened
demoralizing fire at short range. The
ConfederateS were reported to have
lost fifty killed and fifty captured.
A Union meeting was held at Muir
phreesbOrO, Tenn, at which speeches
were made by Governor Johnson and
others.
General Stoneman's and General
Davidson's Union brigades of the
Army of the Potomac were held in
check for eighteen hours at Ellison's
Mills, on Bells creek, by four regi-
ments of Confederates, with nine
pieces of artillery and small COM
mand of cavalry. The Union force,
on the move from New Bridge to
clear the way for McClellan'S adj
vance, found the enemy on two sides
of the creek, and succeeded in driv-
ing them into the village with the fire
ing before they were finally and COM
pleteIy dislodged.
A accommodating party from Poe's
Union command encountered a force
of Confederates near Corinth and
gained an advantage over them, after
a desultory but brisk engagement.
May IS, 1862.
The Confederate General StonewalI
Jackson, continued his diversion in
the Shenandoah to prevent McClel
Ian from being reinforced, by attack
ing and defeating General Banks
command at Winchester, Va, in the
valley.
The government of the United
States called for additional troops,
and took military command of all the
railroads, ordering that officials and
servants of the railroads hold them
selves in readiness to transport troops
to the exclusion of all other business.
The National force under General
Mcdowell, long held in suspense by
the activities of General Jackson in
the Shenandoah, advanced short dis
lance in the direction Of Richmond
and encamped six miles from Fred
ericksburg.
The news of General Banks defeat
and the call for additional troops
aroused intense excitement through
out the north. In the city of Baltimore
the enthusiastic rejoicing of southern
sympathizers in Banks defeat and the
repulse of the First Maryland regi-
ment created extreme tension.
A reconnaissance of the Confed-
crate defences of Vicksburg, Miss,
was made by the Union gunboat Ken
nebec, under command Of Captain
Russell. The Kennebec gained with
in two miles Of the works, when a
battery opened on her, killing one
man and wounding another.
General Mcclellan issued an order
to the effect that upon the passage of
the Chickahominy, the troops of the
Army of the Potomac were to be pre-
pared for battle at a moments no
tice."
May rs, 1862.
-Four regiments OF New York militia
were ordered to be ready to go to
Washington. One militia regiment
left for Washington, and another vol
unteered in body.
General Banks command crossed
, the Potomac safely at Williamsport,
Md, driven from the Shenandoah val
| ley by Jackson and Ewell.
Judge Richard Carmichael and
| James Powell, prosecuting attorney OF
Talbot county, Maryland, were ara
| rested, charged with treason, by order
| of General Dix.
The steamer Shawsheen, with one
| company of infantry, proceeded up the
| Whowan river, North Carolina, to
Gates county and burned ware
| house containing heavy supplies Of
foodstuff for the Confederate army.
| The vessel was fired upon by a small
squad of Confederate cavalry, but
none was injured.
The confiscation bill passed the
house of representatives.
| The British steamer Patras was cap
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