The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-04-25
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CIVIL WAR
FIFTY YEARS AGO
THIS. WEEK
March II, 1853.

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
tight 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 Kappa
hammock river, Virginia, between a
strong Union accommodating force un-
der General Averill and a 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-
yost-marshal general of the United
| States, in pursuance of section five
| OF the act approved March 8, 1863, for
enrolling and calling out the National
! forces, and for othe. purposes of the
! draft act.
! Inc British steamer Calypso ran the
blockade at Charleston, S. c., and
! reached her dock without suffering
! any damage from the blockading fleet.
! Rear Admiral FarragNt, on board
the flagship Hartford, in front of
! Natchez, Miss, sent letter to the
mayor of the city informing him that
II the Union feet we're 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, 1863.
! 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 a 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 a point two miles
beyond the National lines, and
? charged them with so much spirit that
they retreated hastily. The cavalry
continued the chase, and running
! tight was kept up for eight or ten
miles, where re-enforcemerts were
| waiting to receive the Confederates.
/ Iheir numbers greatly exceeding his,
Captain Perkins gave the order to re-
treat, but was closely followed by
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! 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 NJ. Scoyel delivered an elabo-
rate Union speech.
March 10, 1868.
The British steamer Georgiana, with
a cargo Of medicines, drygoods and six
pieces Of field artillery of the Whit
worth and Tlakely patterns, was dis
the United States bloclading squadron
off Charleston, S. C.
The Union gunboat Chenango was
launched at Greenpcint, y. Y
A party Of soldiers sent to Rush
county, Indiara, to arrest deserters,
succeeded in taking six, but while
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.
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