The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-04-04
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CIVIL. WAR
FIFTY YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK g..
March 17,rs6s.

sSs0A W. soOos,:
A detachment of National troops un-
der command of Colonel Spear at
tackled the Confederate breastworks
| on the Black Water, near Franklin,
Va. but failed to carry them. The
fight lasted for more than an hour.
The Union force lost one man killed
| and sixteen wounded.
A spirited cavalry engagement &C.
cured at Kelly's Ford, on the Rappa-
hammock river, Virginia, between q
strong Union accommodating force nm:
der General Averill and body of
| Confederate cavalry under Fitz-Hugh
Lee, In which the latter, after most
desperate struggle of four hours. were
repulsed and pursued six miles. =.
By order Of the war department
Col. James B. Fry was detailed pro-
7ost-marshal general of the United
States, in pursuance of section i've
of the act approved March 3, 1868, for
enrolling and calling out the National
forces, and for other purposes Of the
draft act,
The British steamer Calypso ran the
blockade at Charleston, S. c., and
reached her dock without suffering
any damage from the blockading fleet:
Rear Admiral FarragAt, on board
the flagship Hartford, in front of
Natchez, Miss, sent a letter to the
mayor of the city informing him that
if the Union feet were fired upon
by citizens or partisans he would
lombard the city.
Gold was quoted at Richmond, Va,
at four dollars and twenty-five cents
premium.
March 10, 1868.
Captain Perkins Of the First Louis
lana National cavalry, left Brashear
City with party of his men in order
to meet Confederate cavalry expedi.
ton which had attacked squad of
men of the One Hundred and Six.
teenth New York at Berwick's Bay.
About half-past three he fell in with
the Confederates at point two miles
beyond the National lines, and
charged them with so much spirit that
they retreated hastily. The cavalry
continued the chase, and a running
tight was kept up for eight or ten
miles, where re-enforcemerts were
waiting to receive the Confederates.
Their numbers greatly exceeding his,
Captain Perkins gave the order to re-
treat, but was closely followed by
the Confederates, who kept up the
fight for several miles of the re-
treat
Captain Julien of the First Tennes-
see National cavalry was killed by
partisans near Hillsborough, Tenn.
Peace resolutions passed the lower
house Of the New Jersey legislature.
During the debate on the resolutions
James M. Scovel delivered an elabo-
rate Union speech. g.
March 10, 1868.
The British steamer Georgiana, with
cargo of medicines, drygoods and six
pieces of field artillery of the Whit.
worth and Blakely patterns, was dis
abled and subsequently destroyed by
the United States blockading squadron
off Charleston, S. C.
The Union gunboat Chenango was
| launched at Greenpoint, n. Y.
A party of soldiers sent to Rush
county, Indiana, to arrest deserters
| c1,oano1o1 iv toll civ h11t Whi lie
on their way to the cars with their
prisoners they were attacked by a
large body of Southern sympathizers
armed with rifles, who freed the pris
oners. Two companies of infantry
sent from Indianapolis again took the
deserters into custody.
A skirmish occurred on Dusk river
near Franklin, Tenn.
The schooner Fannie Lewis arrived
at London, having run the blockade
OF Wilmington with a cargo of cot
ton and turpentine.
March 20, 1863.
A Confederate force under Generals
Wheele~ and Morgan was worsted by
a National force under Col. A. S. Hall
of the One Hundred and Fifth Ohio, in
a battle at Vaught's Hill, near Milton
Tenn. The battle was closely con
tested throughout, and we'll fought or
both sides. Preponderance of force
and support eventually decide in favor
of the Union troops.