Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-01-03

General Grant continued =
deavor to get grip on yiot0s %
A Federal entrenching partv u
driven from the lake by q fo, was
Confederates. General Pembarto vs o.
the strength of the minor success :, y
formed Richmond that Grant had D p,,l u
drawn in despair of gaining q foot IN
against the city. ''uOlo
The Emancipation Proclamatio,
officially issued as General n. y
Number One" 0'uef
A detachment of General Ic+r...,
Confederate cavalry, by raid mos
ment into Dumfries, Va, cantnro G'''
quantity of public stores and ten 81. :
lers' wagons. belonging principallv :.
New York and Maine regiments "
Brown sugar sold at SIN =,
pound, and molasses at IS Der ga,l ssi
in Richmond. 0N''Ou'
Union prisoners captured at GsIvo,
ton arrived at Houston. The Hor,t..
Telegraph of date said: "Tbev w.
a fine looking body of men and onas.
to be ashamed of themselves for vi
unteering their services in the yilIaiUr
of trying to subjugate a chivalron,
people"
Colonel Hoskins, commander NJ n.
Federal military post at Lebanon Nv
abandoned pursuit of General No,
gan in which he had been engaged
since December 10th, 1862.
January 8, 1868.
Captain William Gwin, of the TIM.
ted States gunboat Benton, died NJ
the wounds received in the action nea,
Vicksburg, on the twenty-seventb q,
December.
A volunteer cavalry company, under
the command of j. Sewell Reid, arrived
at New York from California. on the
way to Massachusetts to join the Sec.
ond cavalry of that state. They were
raised in San Francisco, and repre-
sented nearly every state in the Union
Murfreesboro, Tenn, was evacuated
by the Confederates.
A portion of the Federal cavalry in
command of General Washburne, in
camp at Helena, Ark, leaving camp
the previous night, and proceeding
to point near La Grange, dashed
upon a Confederate camp at day break
and scattered the force through the
woods. Ten men and two officers
were captured, and the camp de-
stroyed
SiXty-five Union prisoners were cap
tured by Confederate force under
General Jones in an attack on Moore
field, Va, made early in the morn
ing. The attacking force was driven
off after desperate fight of several
hours, but not until they had severely
punished the defenders of the town,
and taken a number prisoners
January q, 1868.
Major General Hurlbut, commanding
the District of the Tennessee, issued
an order at Memphis, warning the
resident sympathiZers with guerrllaS
that every time there was threat
that railroads would be blown up, ne
intended to send on the trains over
the threatened roads ten families 81
lected from the most important pee
PIE of the place, in order to insure lns
safety of the trains and track HV
was provoked to the order by numef
GUS open threats made against LILO
railroads leading out of Memphis, anu
the haunting attitude of the ci'lzels
The Confederate General Magfuu'i
issued the following order at Gal'es'
ton, Tex: Whereas, the underslgnFu
having succeeded in capturing anu uV
stroying a part of the enemyS ne'T
and in driving the reheindef oa' ol Wv
harbor of Galveston and Oe7oat ~
neighborfng waters, and the DlCI@'
having thus been effectually ralSeu ~
therefore procIaims to all eonceln's
that the harbor of Galveston Is Vp',
for trade to all friendly nations 81. -.
their merchants are invited 10 FeSu-,
their usual commercial ntefCO~'
with this port ,.,.d
Gainesville, Tenn, was saFfSHu'''
to the National forces. -
General McClernan, acting indep ,,
emily of General Grants army a s',.s
the Mississippi, led a Federai I
against Port Arkansas, on tne Ala i+ls
sas river, rs miles southeast OIL lin ~ h
Rock, with an ultimate purpose u
vading the state.
January 5, 1868.
Captain John J. Mcneil, o. mi moi
den's Rangers, making descen ..rntr
the National troops in Harry w. an
Virginia, succeeded in killing UL
capturing thirty-three men, Sh h"siisI
horses with accoutrements' U rofps
several revolvers and articles ~ =. cup
This was accomplished after the ,' ="
federate forces under Genera
Aa Bv dir direction Of the president o. y
10y vi $3.50 ~ +roons of the y
eral armies in the Department Z Nd
Gulf were constituted the con.