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CIVIL WAR
FIFTY YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
June "a, 1853.

Federal troops under General MI
roy we're defeated in the battle of
Winchester. Va, by General Ewell
after severe fighting. The Confeder.
ltes continued their advance. occupy.
ing Martinsburg. Hagerstown and Per
rysville. Lees last division moved
out Of Fredericksburg over the plank
road toward Chancellorsville.
Mounted Confederates successfully
raided Maysville, KY.
Furious cannonadIng was begun by
the Confederates besieged In Vicks.
burg.
Four vessels were destroyed and
many others captured by the Confed-
ate warships Florida, Georgia and
Alabama.
June IS, 1863.
President Lincoln called for 100000
men for six months to resist the In.
vasion OF Pennsylvania. Maryland
was asked to supply 10000; Pennsyl.
vania. $4,000: Ohio. 10000. and West
Virginia, 10000. These mer were not
used. Massachusetts,. New York and
other states offered volunteers to aid
the terrorstricken state.
Colonel Smith. commanding at
Hagerstown. was surrounded and
forced to surrender by the Confeder.
ates, who also occupied Chambers
burg.
The state archives and bank depos-
its were removed from Harrisburg to
Philadelphia.
General Milroy reached Harper's
Ferry safely with the garrison from
Winchester.
Kentucky and Michigan cavalry un.
der Colonel De Courcy cut of the
Confederates who had raided Mays.
vile. KY. capturing 100 men and re-
covering their plunder.
General Grant received heavy rein.
forcements In front OF Vicksburg.
Four barks and four schooners left
Boston navy yard to search for the
privateer Tacony.
June is, 1868.
General Lees steady advance arous.
ed new alarm In Pennsylvania. The
post Office and all stores in Harris
burg were closed and New Jersey
was asked to send men to serve nine
months.
All convalescents in the Washing.
ton hospitals were sent to their regi-
ments In the Army OF the Potomac.
The 18th Michigan regiment fought
an engagement with the Confederates
in Fleming county, Kentucky, and lost
Is killed and 30 wounded.
The Federal monitors Weehawken
and Patapsco captured the Confeder.
ate ram Fingal. known also as the At
lanta, in Warsaw sound.
Generals Totten, Meigs and Martin.
dale. Colonel Townsend. Judge Advo-
cate General Holt and Captain Scott
as recorder met as board to settle
the question OF precedence raised by
Mai Gen. Ben Butler as between him
and Generals Mcclellan. Banks and
Dix.
In the Missouri state convention
Mr.. Smith OF st. Louis offered reso-
luton declaring that on July 4, 1870,
slavery shall cease forever In Mis-
souri,"
Juno II, 1858.
Militia OF Pennsylvania and neigh.
boring states began moving toward
Harrisburg, where the panic was sub.
siding.
In severe cavalry skirmish at
Thoroughfare Gap the Confederates
were repulsed.
Resistance to the enrolment In
Montgomery county. Indiana. became
serious. a meeting OF citizens sending
death warning to the commission.
ers. In Holmes county. Ohio. organ.
lied opposition to the draft was broken
up by troops after lively fight
John Brough. war Democrat. was
nominated for governor by the Re-
publicans OF Ohio.
Major General Blount, commanding
the District Of the Frontier, forbade
the circulation In his department Of
the Chicago Times, the New York
World. the Cincinnati Enquirer. the
Columbus Crisis and the Cauca1ian.
June 1s, 1868.
MystiAed by the movements OF Lee.
the Pennsylvania continued their hur.
ried march toward the border. It was
asserted In Harrisburg that the only
Confederates In the state were =
thieving party operating along the
state line.
Confederate General Bragg. having
been heavily reinforced. gave indica.
tions Of an intention to invade Ken
lucky. to the intense alarm Of Hick
man and Columbus.
Three hundred Confederates raided
Hancock, Nd, and burned lot OF
canal boats.
Colonel Kilpatrlck's federal cavalry
regiment was surrounded by Colonel
Rosseau's troops near Aide. Va. and
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