Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-02-07

federates were met near Wildwood,
and driven from their, prey, which
was retaken.
The Confederates were repulsed in
a second attack On Fort Donelson.
The One Hundredth regiment OF
Illinois volunteers mutinied.
February z, 1868.
A detachment of cavalry sent out
from Yorktown to receive twenty-five
Confederates reported by a deserter
as ready to give themselves up, came
to grief at the hands of Confederate
force that was waiting in ambush for
them. Twenty saddles were emptied
at the first fire. At the same time a
body of Confederate cavalry APP
preached down the road from a dis
lance. The Union troops, advancing
to meet them, fell foul of telegraph
wires the Confederates had strung
across the road Many horses and
riders were thrown, and hurt. One
Federal captain and one lieutenant
was captured, and one captain and one
lieutenant taken prisoners.
The partisan leader Captain Daw-
son and several of his men were
taken prisoners by a detachment OF
Union troops under Colonel Wood in
the vicinity of Dyersburgy Tenn.
The steamers T. d. Wagner, Leopard,
and Ruby, all from Nassau, N p,
with large and valuable cargoes, ran
the blockade and reached Charleston,
S. c., early in the morning.
j. p Benjamin, the Confederate
secretary of state, addressed cir
cular to the foreign consuls in the
Southern states, informing them that
the National ports were open to the
trade of the merchants of their several
countries.
Eli Thayer delivered an address at
Cooper institute, New York, advoca-
ting the colonization of Florida with
loyal colonists from the North.
February 8, 1868.
The Federal expedition under Cen
erals Morgan and Davis, sent from
Nashville, Tenn, in pursuit of For
rests and Wheeler's Confederate
forces, who were retreating to the
west, returned, having captured thirty
prisoners near Charlotte, among them
Colonel Carroll and Major Rembrandt,
of Forests staff
Lebanon, Tenn, was entered and
captured by the National force, which
succeeded in capturing six hundred
Confederates, most of them of General
Morgan's command
The work of cutting the canal at
Vicksburg, to permit the Union forces
to communicate above and below with
out passing the batteries, went rapidly
forward, large force being engaged
on it night and day.
Rear Admiral Porter reported the
captured of three Confederate trans
port steamers in the Red river, Arkan-
sas, by the Queen of the West, under
Colonel Ellet.
The circulation of the Chicago
Times was prohibited among the
Union soldiers in Memphis, Tenn.
by order Of General Hurlbut.
Col w r. Pennick sent fifty men
of the Fifth Missouri volunteers from
independence, Mo-, to dispense camp
of Confederate irregulars reported in
the neighborhood. The party came up
with the camp and dispersed it at two
o'clock in the afternoon in a running
| fight lasting half an hour. To test the
fighting qualities of colored soldiers,
Colonel Pennick permitted contra
band to accompany the expedition, at
his own request. He was wounded,
fighting bravely, and expressed will
ingness to again flight the bush.
whackers as soon as he got WE'LL"
February 9, 1868.
A cavalry skirmish occurred near
Summerville, Va, between detach-
ment of Union cavalry belonging to
Major Knox's command, and Con-
federate accommodating party, in
which the latter were compelled to
retreat, with the loss Of several OF
their number I'M killed and wounded.
1t having been frequently reported
to General Rosecrans that Confeder-
ate soldiers approached his lines at
Murfreesboro, Tenn, dressed in the
uniform of Union soldiers, and that
they had even carried the colors of the
United States to deceive his men, he
ordered that none so dressed should
receive, when captured, the rights OF
prisoners of war, and that no quarter
should be given them In battle
Representatives from Louisiana,
chosen under the form Of an election,
were admitted into the house Of
representatives of the United States.
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