The Elbert County tribune., 1913-04-18
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CIVIL WAR
FIFTY YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK

cort, with re-enforcements, ammuni-
ton, and supplies for General Foster.
bottled up at Washington, N. c., ran
the Confederate batteries on the Pam
lico river and succeeded in reaching
her destination.
A detachment of National troops,
under command of Colonel Speai'
Eleventh Pennsylvania cavalry, at
tackled body of Confederate troops
In the vicinity of Suffolk. Va. After
a sharp skirmish the Unionists were
compelled to withdraw behind breast
works. In the afternoon the same
party, heavily, REINFORCED, sailed
forth again and drove the enemy with
considerable loss
General Burnside, in command OF
the department of the Ohio, issued
an order threatening with death any
who should be convicted Of aiding.
within his lines. the enemy. The or
der aroused the bitter antagonism of
Clement L. Vallandigham, and did
much to make many people dissatis-
fed with the extra constitutional
methods adopted by the administra-
ton or its agents.
April IA, 1868.
The Confederate works on the
Bayou Teche, Louisiana, were attacked
by the National forces under Generals
Banks and Emory. and the Confeder
ates driven out, after desperate re-
sistance OF several hours. The Con-
federate gunboats Diana, Hart and
Queen of the West were also destroy
ed. The two former were burned by
their crew to prevent them falling
into the hands of the Federals, and
the last was attacked and set afire
by the United States gunboats Cal
houn, Estralla and Arizona.
The United States gunboat West
End, lying in the Nansemond river.
four miles below Suffolk, Va, was
attacked by Confederate battery and
badly damaged. Seven Of her crew
were killed or wounded.
General Foster escaped from Wash
ington, N c., where he had been sur
rounded by Confederates. in the
steamer Escort. which ran the Confed-
crate blockade of batteries ON the Pam
lico river.
The United States gunboats Com
modore Barney, Mount Washington
and Stepping Stones, attacked and
silenced heavy Confederate battery
on the Nansemond river, Virginia.
The fight lasted four hours.
April is, 1868.
Franklin. st. Mary's parish, Louis
lana, was occupied by. the National
forces under General Banks.
The siege of Washington, N c.,
was raised. The Confederate forces,
which had invested the town for three
weeks. left suddenly. General Foster,
who had been hemmed up in the place,
and who escaped the night before on
the steamer Escort, was in Newbern
organizing an expedition for the relief
of the place when the news of the
Confederates withdrawal reached him.
A detachment of two hundred of the
Thirty-ninth Mounted Kentucky in
fantry, Colonel Dills, made a forced
march on Pikesville. KY, and, after
sharp fight, captured seventeen Con-
federate officers and sixty-one priv
ates. At the same time eight scouts
from the command of Gen. Julian
White captured a captain and twelve
privates in Breathitt county.
Fighting was continued on the Nan
semond river and its vicinity. where
two engagements between Confeder-
ate batteries and Union gunboats had
taken place the previous day.
Z A battalion of cavalry arrived in
New York City from San Francisco
Cal.
Colonel Evans. with force of Ma
tional troops. attacked and defeated
a war party of Indians seventy miles
south of Great Salt lake, Utah, kill
Ing thirty of them.
April is, 1868.
A fleet of eight National gunboats
and several transports under the COM
mand of Admiral Porter passed the
Confederate batteries at Vicksburg at
night, without any material damage,
except the loss by fire of one Of the
transports, laden with commissary
stores and forage, and Joined Grants
army at Bruinsburg.
A party of Indians attacked eight
soldiers at Medalia, thirty miles from
Mankato, Mimi, killing one and
wounding two. besides killing boy
and two men belonging to the settle
ment.
The British steamer Gertrude was
captured off Harbor island by the
National gunboat Vanderbilt, while on
her way from Nassau to the blockaded
coast of the Confederate States.
April II, 1868.
Brig Gen. Daniel A. Donelson. a
nephew of Andrew jackson, and COM